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News / Carbon & Climate

Healthcare in world’s largest economies ‘accounts for 4%’ of global emissions

...carbon footprint (HCF) as a percentage of national carbon footprint (CF), grouped by region where the emissions occurred (left) and health carbon footprint per capita grouped by financing scheme (righ...

11 Jun 2019

Healthcare in world’s largest economies ‘accounts for 4%’ of global emissions

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The energy transformation is not happening fast enough

...carbonisation more seriously, as is evident, for example, with the UN Global Compact’s Business Ambition for 1.5° C. campaign. Decarbonisation is now increasingly seen as a systemic and structural fac...

9 Oct 2019

The energy transformation is not happening fast enough

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate code red: we need a quicker transition to renewables

...carbon. The financial sector is also waking up to the climate risk and its responsibility to address it. Large investors in the Climate Action 100+ initiative, for example, are asking harder, more poi...

20 Sep 2019

Climate code red: we need a quicker transition to renewables

News / Carbon & Climate

Startups strive to recycle emissions for 'new carbon economy'

...carbon so that it is not released into the atmosphere as planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2). "It's just like using sugar fermentation—like you do making beer," said Holmgren. "The chemistry takes a c...

31 May 2019

Startups strive to recycle emissions for 'new carbon economy'

News / Carbon & Climate

How should China respond to melting glaciers and rising sea levels?

...carbon emissions do not decrease, the warmer ocean will dissolve more carbon dioxide, making the seawater more acidic. By the end of the century ocean biomass will have reduced by 17 per cent, with co...

30 Sep 2019

How should China respond to melting glaciers and rising sea levels?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The recovery needs development aid

...carbon-intensive recovery that threatens to set the world back in the fight against climate change. All of these trends will make the pre-pandemic development agenda even more difficult to achieve. At...

16 Oct 2020

The recovery needs development aid

open dump site Dumaguete City, Philippines

News / Waste

Why plastic-clogged Philippines must face up to dearth of waste disposal and recycling

...carbon emissions than plastic or aluminium. “If businesses don’t come together to address the waste issue, there will be actions which trigger the usage of alternative materials that may bring about a...

10 Jun 2020

Why plastic-clogged Philippines must face up to dearth of waste disposal and recycling

News / Policy & Finance

What is your business doing to cut carbon emissions, asks WBCSD chief

...carbon emissions? With the United Nations Climate Action Summit coming up in September, which aims to set tougher targets for the world to meet a 2040 deadline to radically cut greenhouse gas emission...

14 Aug 2019

What is your business doing to cut carbon emissions, asks WBCSD chief

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Sowing the seeds for a better food future in Asia

Global hunger has been on an indefensible rise for many years, and Asia—home to nearly half a billion of the world’s hungry and more than half of the world’s malnourished children—has not been spared....

15 Oct 2020

Sowing the seeds for a better food future in Asia

Opinion / Cities

Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?

More than 3.3 billion people live in the tropics, representing about 40 per cent of the world’s population. Despite some areas of affluence, such as Singapore, the tropics are also home to about 85 pe...

16 Sep 2020

Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Cultured meat? This could create more problems than it solves

...carbon footprint may be 55 per cent higher than that of the automotive industry. US Department of Agriculture meat inspectors and graders at work. Preston Keres/USDA, CC BY Importantly, we should ...

29 Nov 2019

Cultured meat? This could create more problems than it solves

News / Policy & Finance

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

...carbon-intensive, locking economies into high-emissions growth trajectories, warned Associate Professor Simon Tay, chairman of think tank Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). Speaking ...

28 Sep 2020

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

News / Energy

Retiring ageing hydropower dams could protect people and budgets. But aren’t they needed in the energy transition?

...carbonisation. Vladimir Smakhtin, director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, UN University “There are both counterarguments and competition for hydropower in decarbonisation,” he said. “D...

27 Jan 2021

Retiring ageing hydropower dams could protect people and budgets. But aren’t they needed in the energy transition?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Chile's protests offer lessons on social inequality and climate action

...carbon-neutral and resilient economy in ways that help reduce social inequality. Current debates about the country’s transport, energy and water systems highlight how low-carbon and adaptive solution...

28 Nov 2019

Chile's protests offer lessons on social inequality and climate action

Press Releases / Danfoss A/S

Danfoss helps mega-port to become hybrid electric

...carbon emissions and environmentally sustainability in local maritime operations. The collaborative partnership including Danfoss Editron equipment is a result of long-term focus by Barry Yung and th...

10 Jun 2020

Danfoss helps mega-port to become hybrid electric

News / Waste

Fashion and textile firms still blind to water pollution risks, says new report

Many large fashion and textiles companies around the world remain blind to the risks of water pollution, and only one out of 62 companies mentioned microfibers in its response to a water security ques...

14 Sep 2020

Fashion and textile firms still blind to water pollution risks, says new report

CSRWorks managing director Rajesh Chhabara (centre) sits in between Tim Mohin of GRI and Madelyn Antoncic of SASB at the Asia Sustainability Reporting Summit. Mohin and Antoncic clashed over whose standard was better. Image: Eco-Business

News / Corporate Responsibility

Rival standards bodies team up to clarify sustainability reporting as Covid increases pressure to disclose ESG data

Rival sustainability standards bodies Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) have formed a strategic partnership to bring greater clarity to the con...

13 Jul 2020

Rival standards bodies team up to clarify sustainability reporting as Covid increases pressure to disclose ESG data

Opinion / Energy

The power of words and art in energy conservation

Population growth has contributed to rising energy consumption around the world, and Southeast Asia has been no different. Between 2010 and 2018, the region’s energy demand rose by almost 22 per cent—...

13 Oct 2020

The power of words and art in energy conservation

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Not just CO2: How is China curbing other polluting greenhouse gases?

...carbon dioxide. But carbon dioxide (CO2) isn't the only greenhouse gas (GHG) to worry about. Other gases like methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) can have a much more powerful effec...

10 Sep 2019

Not just CO2: How is China curbing other polluting greenhouse gases?

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Opinion / Cities

Covid-19 could affect cities for years. Here are 4 ways they’re coping now.

...carbon emissions. In China, the pandemic has caused a 15-40 per cent reduction in key industrial outputs, leading to a roughly 25 per cent drop in carbon emissions. Satellite data captured a stark cha...

24 Mar 2020

Covid-19 could affect cities for years. Here are 4 ways they’re coping now.

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