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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

...carbon emissions – that is, the carbon footprint. According to the network’s own analysis, each of these land use types is nearly in balance or in surplus, except for the carbon footprint. The two key...

25 Jul 2019

Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it

News / Carbon & Climate

Will Asia's banks join the movement to decarbonise shipping?

Shipping, which the world relies on to move cargo around, accounts for about 2.5 per cent of global carbon emissions. Three months ago, 11 international banks including Citi, Société Générale and ING ...

25 Sep 2019

Will Asia's banks join the movement to decarbonise shipping?

Press Releases / Grundfos

Grundfos launches Distributed Pumping System to meet Asia’s sustainable cooling needs

...carbon emissions, driving climate change. A first in Asia, Grundfos’ Distributed Pumping System is a novel system capable of operating in optimised conditions at any time. It achieves this by i...

5 Sep 2019

Grundfos launches Distributed Pumping System to meet Asia’s sustainable cooling needs

News / Food & Agriculture

Myanmar risks losing forests to oil palm

...carbon stock. Clearing the concessions within the proposed park would release approximately 150 million tons, or teragrams, of carbon dioxide equivalent (Tg CO2e), according to the paper. To examine t...

14 Nov 2019

Myanmar risks losing forests to oil palm

News / Corporate Responsibility

Firms are masking 'dangerous trade-offs' in sustainability reports, warns triple bottom line guru John Elkington

Sustainability guru John Elkington, who coined terms such as the "triple bottom line" and "people, planet and profit", has said that compromises made in sustainable development such as "clean coal" wo...

11 Sep 2020

Firms are masking 'dangerous trade-offs' in sustainability reports, warns triple bottom line guru John Elkington

News / Carbon & Climate

Planting more trees could cut carbon by 25 per cent

...carbon. This is about two-thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of extra carbon humans have pumped into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. “We all knew that restorin...

7 Jul 2019

Planting more trees could cut carbon by 25 per cent

News / Energy

Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city, study finds

...Carbon Tracker, says this is the first in-depth study he has seen looking at city-level solar costs in China, and is encouraged by this indication of solar becoming ever-more competitive. He tells Car...

13 Aug 2019

Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city, study finds

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

After another haze outbreak chokes Southeast Asia, can palm oil smallholders shift to sustainable farming?

The haze returned with a vengeance this year. Dry weather, slash and burn farming, flicked cigarettes and neglected cooking pans have all been fingered for the air pollution from burning peatlands tha...

30 Oct 2019

After another haze outbreak chokes Southeast Asia, can palm oil smallholders shift to sustainable farming?

Icebergs in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

News / Carbon & Climate

Atlantic current could falter before 2100

...carbon dioxide, distributes heat and moderates high latitude weather. But in the past 150 years the flow has been weakening, and there have been fears that the circulation could halt entirely, with un...

6 Jan 2020

Atlantic current could falter before 2100

News / Policy & Finance

Investors fight back against climate wreckers

...carbon transition, such as renewable energy. Controversy continues “Investors understand the language of risk and increasingly recognise that putting money into a potentially unusable commodity – foss...

10 Dec 2019

Investors fight back against climate wreckers

News / Policy & Finance

Can blue finance save the oceans?

...carbon”. There is increasing scientific conviction that blue carbon is one of the cheapest options for carbon capture. And that capturing carbon in coastal ecosystems brings with it a host of other ec...

3 Jun 2019

Can blue finance save the oceans?

News / Policy & Finance

‘Inequality intertwined with environmental injustice’: Green groups in Singapore call for fairer treatment of migrant workers

Amid fresh concerns over the prolonged isolation of Singapore’s dormitory-dwelling migrant workers and their mental health, 23 environmental groups in the country have called for decent working and li...

7 Aug 2020

‘Inequality intertwined with environmental injustice’: Green groups in Singapore call for fairer treatment of migrant workers

News / Food & Agriculture

The race against time to cut rice’s carbon footprint

...carbon-dioxide, according to food and agribusiness firm Olam International. 71 farmers in the beginning In a bid to grow more rice sustainably, UN Environment and the International Rice Research Insti...

17 Mar 2020

The race against time to cut rice’s carbon footprint

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Three ways businesses can lead the transition to a low carbon economy

...carbon opportunities, they're leaving many benefits on the table. Here are three ways businesses can unlock the economic benefits of low-carbon growth: 1. Reform business practices First, companies ca...

22 May 2019

Three ways businesses can lead the transition to a low carbon economy

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Rethinking resilience in business

Covid-19 is the biggest public-health crisis in a century and has caused the deepest economic recession of the modern era. The pandemic has revealed vulnerabilities in public-health systems and socia...

2 Nov 2020

Rethinking resilience in business

News / Energy

Nuclear power ‘cannot rival renewable energy’

...carbon as that spent on nuclear power; wind saved three times as much, and solar double. Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, told the meeting: “The fact is that nuclear power is ...

16 Jan 2020

Nuclear power ‘cannot rival renewable energy’

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Youth not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice

...carbon as plants grow. Avoiding deforestation keeps this carbon from entering the atmosphere. Thunberg and British writer George Monbiot released a film ahead on the New York summit calling on world l...

1 Oct 2019

Youth not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice

Builders work together to finish a house.

News / Green Buildings

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

...carbon footprint is accumulated from our suppliers, making our target to reduce our carbon footprint by 25-30 per cent by 2020 a big challenge,” he says. That is why AkzoNobel introduced a supplier ma...

8 Jul 2019

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

News / Transport

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

...carbon footprint and use "flight shaming" to persuade others to follow suit. Teenaged climate activist Greta Thunberg - named on Wednesday as Time magazine's person of the year - took the lead in Augu...

13 Dec 2019

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

News / Corporate Responsibility

Amazon.com staff warned over criticising company's climate policy

...carbon-neutral by 2040. But some employees said the company should go even further and curtail the web and cloud computing services it provides to oil and gas firms. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, however, sa...

7 Jan 2020

Amazon.com staff warned over criticising company's climate policy

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