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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Time to step up climate action

Our collective efforts to decarbonise markets are not happening fast enough—at this point in time it seems almost impossible that we’ll meet the goal to limit global temperature increases to well belo...

28 Nov 2018

Time to step up climate action

News / Waste

China to release plan for tackling e-waste by end of year

Unlike your everyday consumer rubbish, electronics waste is especially challenging to deal with because it contains a range of hazardous substances. The world produced 41.8 million tonnes of waste ele...

6 Jun 2017

China to release plan for tackling e-waste by end of year

News / Waste

Australia’s waste crisis: Where are the solutions?

In the last 20 years Australia has strived to increase its recycling capacity to meet the increases in waste generation. The most important waste streams, namely organic material, paper and plastics, ...

18 Jul 2018

Australia’s waste crisis: Where are the solutions?

News / Policy & Finance

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

As the heat and dust of an Indian summer grows in tandem with the ongoing elections to Parliament, air pollution and climate change have found space in the manifestos of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Pa...

17 Apr 2019

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

Opinion / Waste

Electronic waste in Asia is piling up

Asia has become a dumping ground for the world's used and discarded electronics. Electronic waste or ‘e-waste’ includes all types of electrical and electronic equipment discarded by consumers without ...

3 Feb 2017

Electronic waste in Asia is piling up

News / Manufacturing

Textile industry under pressure to detox fashion

The 21st century has been good to the textile industry. Global clothing production doubled between 2000 and 2017 to surpass 100 billion items annually for the first time in 2014—that’s equivalent to 1...

21 Nov 2018

Textile industry under pressure to detox fashion

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The carbon footprint of tourism revealed (it’s bigger than we thought)

The carbon footprint of tourism is about four times larger than previously thought, according to a world-first study published today in Nature Climate Change. Researchers from the University of Sydney...

15 May 2018

The carbon footprint of tourism revealed (it’s bigger than we thought)

Opinion / Waste

Act now, act together: Tackling packaging waste from e-commerce in China

China spearheads the global e-commerce boom, with online retail sales reaching 5.16 trillion yuan (US$752 billion) in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 26.2 per cent. According to China’s State Post Bu...

11 May 2017

Act now, act together: Tackling packaging waste from e-commerce in China

News / Corporate Responsibility

Palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, and Hershey's resumes deforesting in Indonesia

A palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, Hershey and Johnson & Johnson has resumed clearing intact forest in West Papua, Indonesia, despite pressure by other major companies, many of which have since...

16 Nov 2018

Palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, and Hershey's resumes deforesting in Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Australia is the worst in the world when it comes to climate action

Last month the SDG Index and dashboard report ‘Global Responsibilities: Implementing the Goals’ was released, a comprehensive review of UN member states and their progress towards the Sustainable Deve...

7 Aug 2018

Australia is the worst in the world when it comes to climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Empathy will help the world change course on climate change

Small actions can have a big impact and individuals must believe in their ability to make a difference in the fight against climate change, said experts at the launch of Eco-Business’ film and photogr...

6 Jun 2018

Empathy will help the world change course on climate change

Cargo ship swept ashore by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

News / Carbon & Climate

How will you respond to the IPCC's urgent climate warning?

It is the biggest climate story of the year, probably the decade. By 2030, a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed last week, the world’s carbon bud...

15 Oct 2018

How will you respond to the IPCC's urgent climate warning?

News / Waste

Batteries from green cars could swamp China’s recycling industry

Discarded batteries from electric vehicles will soon become a major environmental hazard in China, a think tank has warned. New energy cars—which at least partly rely on electric engines—have sold in ...

12 Oct 2017

Batteries from green cars could swamp China’s recycling industry

A women lies next to her newborn child in a hospital.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The economic imperative of protecting women’s health

Mai was 17 years old when she and her boyfriend became sexually active. Because unmarried adolescents in their country cannot access contraception without parental consent, they decided to make do wit...

25 May 2018

The economic imperative of protecting women’s health

News / Food & Agriculture

The blockchain chickens bringing the future to free-range

A crisp breeze stirs the air in the town of Sanqiao in Guizhou province, south-west China, two hours of bumpy bus rides from the bustling city of Chongqing. Nestled in the green mountains is a chicken...

1 Oct 2018

The blockchain chickens bringing the future to free-range

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

New Zealand’s zero carbon bill: much ado about methane

New Zealand could become the first country in the world to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Leading up to the 2017 election, the now Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously des...

16 Jul 2018

New Zealand’s zero carbon bill: much ado about methane

News / Water

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

For 75-year-old Tsering Angdo, today’s Ladakh is entirely different from the world of his childhood in the cold Himalayan desert. Back then, he and everyone he knew would take water supply for granted...

2 Aug 2018

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

News / Carbon & Climate

Is northern India better prepared for air pollution this winter?

Winter in north India is almost here, and social media is already buzzing with pictures of crop residue burning in the country’s northern states. Over the last few years, the national capital, New Del...

2 Nov 2018

Is northern India better prepared for air pollution this winter?

News / Carbon & Climate

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

Such a surge in heatwaves could push “marine organisms and ecosystems to the limits of the resilience and even beyond, which could cause irreversible changes”, the researchers write in the journal Nat...

17 Aug 2018

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

Doctors and other health workers serve a steady stream of patients in a modern clinic in Zuunmod town

Opinion / Energy

3 ways investing in energy makes people healthier

Imagine your life without electricity: no television, computer, internet or mobile phone, no lighting at night (other than by candle or kerosene lamp) to read books, study, or walk on the street. It's...

28 Mar 2018

3 ways investing in energy makes people healthier

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