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Why emerging Asia is the hub of climate-smart urban development

...carbon footprint, in the absence of concrete action to help improve urban development. Moreover, as cities develop, their exposure to climate and disaster risk also increases. Many of Asia’s megacitie...

12 Jun 2019

Why emerging Asia is the hub of climate-smart urban development

News / Policy & Finance

More nature, more jobs? Green investment seen as driver of coronavirus recovery

...carbon in their soils and protecting forests as well as selling food, panelists said. Under-utilised city space, from parking lots to office towers, could be rethought and reused to prevent further ex...

17 Jul 2020

More nature, more jobs? Green investment seen as driver of coronavirus recovery

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

...carbon sink, this net number—the result of subtracting sequestration from gross emissions—hide their potential role in mitigation. The IPCC concludes with “high confidence” that the mitigation potenti...

13 Aug 2019

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

COP26 launch Boris Johnson David Attenborough

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does COP26 delay mean for climate action?

...carbon footprint of such conferences and explore ways to reduce flight emissions. Simon Pollock is a communications specialist with the UN-backed Green Climate Fund. He is based in South Korea. The vi...

4 Apr 2020

What does COP26 delay mean for climate action?

News / Policy & Finance

Michael Bloomberg to spend $500 million to close coal plants

...Carbon initiative would lobby to close about 250 coal-fired power plants by 2030 and make the country fully reliant on clean energy. "We're in a race against time with climate change, and yet there is...

10 Jun 2019

Michael Bloomberg to spend $500 million to close coal plants

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Reducing the forest footprint of Chinese soft-commodity financing

China, through its vast imports of commodities like soy, palm oil, rubber and timber, has an unparalleled impact on many commodity markets linked to global deforestation and related greenhouse gas emi...

7 May 2021

Reducing the forest footprint of Chinese soft-commodity financing

Sunrise in Bangkok, one of Southeast Asia's most climate-vulnerable cities.

News / Cities

Which sustainability solutions are most needed to save Southeast Asia’s cities?

...carbonisation. The competition is looking for solutions that can capture and use carbon, as cleantech firm CarbonCure does with concrete, Lim explained. Besides funding, Challenge contenders stand to ...

15 Jan 2020

Which sustainability solutions are most needed to save Southeast Asia’s cities?

News / Lifestyle

In store or online—what's the environmentally friendliest way to shop?

...carbon emissions can be saved. So they are trying. Amazon wants half its shipments to be “net zero carbon” by 2030. But how? Electric vehicles are one possibility. With no tailpipe emissions, they red...

24 May 2019

In store or online—what's the environmentally friendliest way to shop?

News / Carbon & Climate

Restoring forests rules out growing crops

...carbon dioxide and combat climate change. But British scientists have identified a serious flaw in the plan. “Two-thirds of the area committed to global reforestation for carbon storage is slated to g...

16 Apr 2019

Restoring forests rules out growing crops

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning

...carbon into the atmosphere at a time when carbon dioxide concentrations are setting new records. Vast sub-Arctic forests The boreal or taiga ecosystem, a swath of northern forest that covers 17 per ce...

15 Aug 2019

Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Banks need to take Belt and Road environmental risks seriously

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is intended to catalyse the economies of countries around the globe.Yet BRI projects overlap some of the most ecologically fragile places on earth. The multi-tri...

3 Feb 2020

Banks need to take Belt and Road environmental risks seriously

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening sovereign-debt restructuring

Many developing countries have so far avoided the high Covid-19 infection and mortality rates that are being experienced elsewhere. While that may be good news, at least in the short term, the bad ne...

13 Aug 2020

Greening sovereign-debt restructuring

Sky Greens’ vertical farming systems in the background. Each vertical tower requires only 40 watts of electricity to operate—the equivalent of one lightbulb. Image: Sky Greens

News / Energy

7 smart innovations from Southeast Asia to speed up the energy transition

...carbon-light and resource efficient. On the energy front, EnerGaia leaves nothing to waste, using carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sites to power aeration and mixing for algae growth. Moreover...

21 Oct 2019

7 smart innovations from Southeast Asia to speed up the energy transition

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Islands of climate ambition

...carbon dioxide emissions are already negligible, we are leading by example in this area. Both Fiji and Jamaica have taken decisive steps to reduce emissions further by adopting increasingly ambitious ...

19 Sep 2019

Islands of climate ambition

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Nature by the numbers

...carbon that occurs when natural vegetation is destroyed. By protecting India and Bangladesh over the years, the Sundarbans have provided an extraordinarily valuable service. Conversely, the environmen...

12 Aug 2020

Nature by the numbers

Press Releases / Ecoforests Asset Management

Study says: Trees ‘most effective solution’ for climate change

...carbon dioxide has made them a valuable and relatively cheap tool in the fight against climate change. According to the authors, the space available for trees is significantly larger than previously ...

15 Jul 2019

Study says: Trees ‘most effective solution’ for climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why an ambitious year for climate action is a big year for women’s empowerment

...carbon, green growth solutions. Promotion of poverty alleviation, gender equality and social inclusion is embedded in GGGI’s support to our member countries in this transition. This is in recognition ...

11 Mar 2020

Why an ambitious year for climate action is a big year for women’s empowerment

News / Policy & Finance

Without climate action, economic growth 'will be reversed', economist warns

...carbon growth story in anything like the medium or long term," he told business and government officials at an innovation forum held as part of London Climate Action Week events. The growing climate t...

5 Jul 2019

Without climate action, economic growth 'will be reversed', economist warns

Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

News / Energy

How Indonesia became coal's final frontier

In a little more than 20 years, Indonesia has gone from being a minor player in the global coal industry to playing a central role as a key consumer and producer of coal. And even as investors and key...

23 Mar 2021

How Indonesia became coal's final frontier

News / Carbon & Climate

Efforts to fix air pollution gasp for funding, as pandemic pressure builds

Development funding for efforts to tackle air pollution falls far short of what is needed in a world where nine in 10 people breathe air that is damaging their health - a problem thrown into sharp foc...

9 Sep 2020

Efforts to fix air pollution gasp for funding, as pandemic pressure builds

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