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News / Food & Agriculture

As millions go hungry, India eyes ways to stop wasting $14 billion of food a year

...the mortgage by farming as the forecast suggested good rain in the coming months but then demonetisation happened. The little money I had saved to buy seeds became worthless," adding by the time she c...

5 Jan 2018

As millions go hungry, India eyes ways to stop wasting $14 billion of food a year

Children in Laos get free school lunches in government and World Bank programme

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why MDBs should include human rights in the development agenda

...their work. The factors impacting that debate have remained the same, but the world has changed. MDBs have transformed their core missions, and legal interpretations of the relevant clauses of their f...

25 May 2017

Why MDBs should include human rights in the development agenda

Girls in a village in India read books after dark with the help of solar lamps

Opinion / Energy

Are mini-grids the solution to the big problem of energy poverty?

...the support of policies that are impartial and fair. But, more than anything, they need the opportunity to put their technologies to work. The world already knows how to power rural communities; it’s ...

27 Jun 2018

Are mini-grids the solution to the big problem of energy poverty?

Papua Diving, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

News / Lifestyle

Can this dive resort save the last paradise on earth?

...the time he rescued two turtles from a fisherman’s boat in the early nineties. After buying the turtles from the young fisherman, Ammer immediately put one of them back into the water. Shocked, the bo...

27 Mar 2018

Can this dive resort save the last paradise on earth?

News / Food & Agriculture

Malaysian state makes 80 per cent forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

...the city of Kuching. But some in the conservation community are expressing doubt that these promises will come to fruition. Occupying the northern coast of Borneo, Sarawak’s rainforests are home to un...

13 Mar 2018

Malaysian state makes 80 per cent forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

News / Corporate Responsibility

Companies in climate probe could lose investors: Philippine Human Rights Commission

...the country to hold vigil outside the CHR as they awaited news from the meeting. When they learned hardly any of the respondents showed up, they did not seem to waver. Joanna Sustento, 25, one of the ...

14 Dec 2017

Companies in climate probe could lose investors: Philippine Human Rights Commission

Opinion / Energy

Australia’s love affair with “clean” coal must end

...The list shows that there are only two CCS projects for power generation in operation globally: the Boundary Dam project in Canada and the Petra Nova project in the US. A further 8 projects are curren...

6 Nov 2017

Australia’s love affair with “clean” coal must end

Opinion / Energy

Renewables revolution still needs public funding push

...the comfortable lives of the relatively well-off, while at the same time allowing poor people to improve their lives by enhancing their access to power. A recent report by the IEA offers encouraging n...

20 Jul 2018

Renewables revolution still needs public funding push

children help pull fishing nets in Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Can new principles drive money into sustainable fishing?

...the world, especially the poorest and most vulnerable communities that rely on the oceans to meet their most basic everyday needs.” Momentum is building for the guidelines. The three major fisheries i...

27 Mar 2018

Can new principles drive money into sustainable fishing?

Opinion / Waste

Ditch NIMBY to fix Philippines’ municipal solid waste problem

...the refuse is openly burned, further worsening the quality of the city’s already heavily polluted air. The problem extends beyond the capital. Daily garbage generated in northern Baguio City increased...

16 Oct 2017

Ditch NIMBY to fix Philippines’ municipal solid waste problem

Presliced vegetables in plastic wrapping on supermarket shelves

Opinion / Lifestyle

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

...the bottle, the shrink-wrapped film, and the lid. All three components can be individually recycled but they are rarely separated other than by shredding. Or look at black plastic trays. Their only fu...

26 Apr 2018

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

News / Energy

Laos suspends new dams as tragedy raises wider fears

...The flood zone is also very close to the border with Cambodia. Flood waters rushed from the Xe-Pian River into the Sekong River, a major tributary of the Mekong River near the border, and then inundat...

13 Aug 2018

Laos suspends new dams as tragedy raises wider fears

Indonesian firefighters try to control fire

News / Carbon & Climate

Jokowi's anti-haze policies put to real test as annual fires return to Indonesia

...the impact of a policy would be tested when the condition is there to test the success or failure of the policy,” he said. On the heels of the 2015 fires, Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, ...

11 Aug 2017

Jokowi's anti-haze policies put to real test as annual fires return to Indonesia

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Changing Course, a film and photography exhibition, opens to the public at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in Singapore’s Year of Climate Action

...the expedition. View the trailer for the upcoming expedition here. THE CLIMATE PHOTO CHALLENGE At the heart of the exhibition is the belief in the power of media to inspire actio...

4 Jun 2018

Changing Course, a film and photography exhibition, opens to the public at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in Singapore’s Year of Climate Action

News / Energy

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

...the efficiency of hydrogen production,” he explained. The crystals have a “highly ordered” nanostructure enabling scientists to “manipulate the molecular components when they accumulate in the crystal...

8 Mar 2018

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

Opinion / Policy & Finance

4 signs to watch at COP23

...the US economy have declared support for the Paris Agreement. Rather than back away, they are stepping up, and together they have the potential to significantly move US climate action forward. At clim...

2 Nov 2017

4 signs to watch at COP23

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

...their subject matter. If there are, they may have noticed the growing reference to China in Hollywood films with climate themes.Take for example, the 2017 blockbuster Geostorm, which did well at the C...

19 Jun 2018

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

...they gather in Cape Town – a city grappling with its own climate-related water crisis —for the Adaptation Futures conference. What solutions will they come up with? Here’s a preview of four changes t...

18 Jun 2018

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

MEWR Minister Masagos Zulkifli speaking to representatives from Subnero at the 2016 Innovation Pavilion.

News / Water

Supporting the world’s water start-ups

...them, allowing officials to act quickly in cases of outbreaks or contamination. In 2016, the company behind the technology, Singapore-based start-up Subnero, was among the firms that showcased their w...

18 Jun 2018

Supporting the world’s water start-ups

News / Water

Squeezing profits from a dry rock: Business models for a water-scarce world

...ther its rural population thrives. But Indian villagers today struggle to have their basic needs met, from a decent education for their children and putting food on the table to—arguably the country’...

3 Sep 2018

Squeezing profits from a dry rock: Business models for a water-scarce world

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