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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia charts a new, low carbon development path. Will other countries follow suit?

...carbon sectors and resource extraction—may be negatively impacted by Indonesia’s shift to a low-carbon economy. Low Carbon Development Initiative policies must support these people as they build new c...

26 Mar 2019

Indonesia charts a new, low carbon development path. Will other countries follow suit?

News / Carbon & Climate

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy

...carbon neutral. As a result, emissions from burning wood are not counted against a country’s total carbon emissions. The Kyoto Protocol originally defined the carbon neutrality of so-called bioenergy ...

12 Mar 2019

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy

News / Cities

UN plans vast urban forests to fight climate change

...carbon dioxide and dust particles and produce oxygen, calling them a model for sustainable residential building. This story was published with permission from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the chari...

24 Sep 2019

UN plans vast urban forests to fight climate change

News / Cities

Can cities save the world?

...carbon measures in cities could support 87 million jobs by 2030 in sectors such as clean energy and public transport,” the report said. Particularly in South Asia, cities are growing outward quite unl...

4 Oct 2019

Can cities save the world?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What will the next decade bring for corporate social responsibility in China?

Over the last decade, Chinese businesses have made significant strides in incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into their decision-making. But they still have a long way t...

10 Dec 2019

What will the next decade bring for corporate social responsibility in China?

News / Energy

Researchers link deadly Sichuan quake to fracking

...carbon dioxide emissions, industry players, together with policymakers and academia, must thoroughly evaluate seismic perils involved in the fuel’s extraction, reads the research article, published in...

27 Oct 2020

Researchers link deadly Sichuan quake to fracking

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How to get to net-zero emissions

...carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies—to accelerate “a virtuous cycle of environment and growth.” As laudable as this goal may be, these solutions will reach scale only around 2030, or...

25 Jun 2019

How to get to net-zero emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising heat drives hungry people to hospital

...carbon dioxide, can reduce protein and vital nutrient levels in crops, to amplify global hunger and malnourishment. One research group even catalogued 27 ways in which heat extremes could kill. These ...

7 Nov 2019

Rising heat drives hungry people to hospital

News / Carbon & Climate

Discovery of threatened species pushes bid to protect Vietnam forest

Recently disclosed results from an extensive survey have revealed the presence of several highly endangered species in a forest that is not currently under any legal protection in Vietnam’s central hi...

2 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species pushes bid to protect Vietnam forest

News / Food & Agriculture

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

...carbon-rich peatlands, and weakened regulations to protect peat, means that annual toxic haze outbreaks are likely to persist for many years to come, a new report from a coalition of non-government or...

22 Nov 2019

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Pandemic policy must be climate policy

...carbon dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically – even returning to 2010 levels. Urban air pollution has dissipated, with many reveling in the return of blue skies over chronically smoggy megacities...

5 Aug 2020

Pandemic policy must be climate policy

News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Janice Lao, hospitality trailblazer

...carbon footprints. From tirelessly lobbying for a shark's fin ban to pushing for one of Asia’s first green bonds in her previous roles, Lao now finds herself championing sustainability in luxury. Hire...

16 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Janice Lao, hospitality trailblazer

News / Transport

Cool ideas to clean up pollution from cars, trucks, ships and planes

...carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases discharged into the atmosphere. Still, energy moves our cars, trucks, buses, trains, ships, and airplanes, everything we depend upon to deliver food and consu...

29 Jul 2019

Cool ideas to clean up pollution from cars, trucks, ships and planes

News / Carbon & Climate

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

A global failure to provide about 4 billion people - half the world's population - with access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing $2.4 trillion a year in damage to health, the cl...

28 Sep 2020

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

News / Energy

Green hydrogen could drive the energy transition—but investment and infrastructure are lacking, say experts

...carbonised global economy at the tenth assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi last week. “ Green hydrogen is a key technology in a decarbonised economy. Yasuhiro M...

16 Jan 2020

Green hydrogen could drive the energy transition—but investment and infrastructure are lacking, say experts

News / Energy

Japan is exporting the most polluting kind of coal power to developing Asia

...carbon dioxide emissions. Japan is the only G7 country still building new coal power plants at home and abroad, and is the second largest public investor in overseas coal projects among the G20 countr...

20 Aug 2019

Japan is exporting the most polluting kind of coal power to developing Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Changing culture in a changing climate

...carbon neutrality by 2050. Members of the Labour party then backed a motion to achieve the same by 2030, and the party may well include the pledge – long advocated by the Green Party – in its next man...

7 Oct 2019

Changing culture in a changing climate

News / Food & Agriculture

Drought and hunger drive Nepal farmers to India, defying Covid ban

As an exceptionally wet monsoon season caused floods and landslides across much of Nepal, Buddhi Prasad Chaudhary, a farmer in the west of the country, was harvesting his rice early, after drought lef...

22 Oct 2020

Drought and hunger drive Nepal farmers to India, defying Covid ban

A recycling centre in Lang Khoai, Vietnam, where 1,500 work in the informal recycling sector. Image: CL2B

News / Waste

Covid-19 has hobbled Asia's recycling trade as demand for recycled plastic dips and recyclers face ruin

Lockdowns and Covid-19 prevention measures may have done permanent damage to the recycling sector in South and Southeast Asia, a study by circular economy consultancy GA Circular has found. The recycl...

30 Aug 2020

Covid-19 has hobbled Asia's recycling trade as demand for recycled plastic dips and recyclers face ruin

News / Carbon & Climate

How humans fuelled last summer's extreme heat

...carbon-rich climate and in the historical climate, which sported less heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Simultaneous heat waves of the size and ferocity seen in 2018 did not materialise in the historical ...

3 Jun 2019

How humans fuelled last summer's extreme heat

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