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Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

...carbon emissions, and put thousands of farmers and fishermen out of work. “We will have to forget Lamu as we know it today,” complained Somo Mohammed Somo, a fishing dhow captain and chairman of the L...

8 Jul 2019

Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

News / Transport

The future of flight is electric

...carbon footprints. Every round-trip transatlantic flight emits enough CO2 to melt 30 square feet of Arctic sea ice. Emissions from airplanes have doubled over the past 20 years, and air traffic will d...

16 Jul 2019

The future of flight is electric

Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, TerraViva United Nations CLIMATE CHANGE India Glacier Disaster: In a Warming World is there no Less Lethal Way to Power Development?

News / Water

India glacier disaster: In a warming world, is there no less lethal a way to power development?

On Sunday morning, 7 Feb, as most of the working class in India’s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand went about their chores, the glacier-fed Rishi Ganga river started rising. Two hours later, swollen wit...

19 Feb 2021

India glacier disaster: In a warming world, is there no less lethal a way to power development?

News / Carbon & Climate

China enters a new low-sulphur shipping era

The global shipping industry is shifting to low-sulphur fuel in response to global calls for cleaner shipping . At the start of the year, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) lowered the sulp...

13 May 2020

China enters a new low-sulphur shipping era

News / Cities

Are decentralised communities the way forward for sustainable cities?

...carbon-neutral goals at each step of the process are important. For instance, as the world pushes for greater adoption of renewable energy to curb carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, pr...

30 Aug 2019

Are decentralised communities the way forward for sustainable cities?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Geoengineering is a dangerous distraction

...carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM). Both – along with most other geoengineering strategies—would depend on the widespread deployment of so-called carbon capture, utili...

19 Feb 2019

Geoengineering is a dangerous distraction

Tagebau Garzweiler surface lignite mine Germany

News / Energy

It’s a galloping goodbye to Europe’s coal

...carbon trading scheme resulting in higher charges being levied on polluters have driven up the cost of coal. All is not clean air and clear blue skies in Europe, however. Coal is still a significant s...

27 Apr 2020

It’s a galloping goodbye to Europe’s coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Sandy beaches may succumb to rising seas

Right now, around a third of the world’s coastline is made up of sandy beaches and dunes which slope gently and softly to the sea. By the end of the century, these could make up only one-sixth of the ...

6 Mar 2020

Sandy beaches may succumb to rising seas

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

More than two in three cities around the world already are noticing the effects of climate change, from more heatwaves to worsening flooding, but few have effective plans in place to deal with the thr...

24 Oct 2019

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

...carbon-rich peatlands are notoriously difficult to extinguish. Organic matter inside peat makes fires bigger and generates more haze. Burning peatland is also problematic for the climate — draining on...

9 Oct 2019

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

...carbon healthcare to reduce the sector’s carbon emissions and ensure greener healthcare. This year, the network will again gather in Singapore for the 5th Green Hospitals Asia Conference to draft stra...

2 Apr 2019

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

The world's young climate activists will come out of the coronavirus crisis even stronger and more motivated than before, their figurehead Greta Thunberg predicted on Wednesday. In an online video con...

23 Apr 2020

Climate activists to emerge stronger from coronavirus crisis, says Greta Thunberg

what does it take to phase out fossil fuels?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Mining the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies

It’s time we started talking about the principal opponents to action on climate change—fossil fuel industries. If history has taught us anything, it is when oil, gas and coal industries oppose policie...

23 Oct 2019

Mining the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies

News / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuels add to world’s marine dead zones

Cutting out coal-burning and other sources of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from heavy industry, electricity production and traffic will reduce the size of the world’s dead zones along coasts where all fish l...

6 Apr 2020

Fossil fuels add to world’s marine dead zones

hauling timber from Indonesian peat forest

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia to fix temporary ban on new forest clearing for plantations and logging

...carbon dioxide emissions by at least 29 per cent over the business-as-usual projection by 2030. Indonesia is currently one of the top emitters in the world, but unlike industrialised nations, the bulk...

11 Jun 2019

Indonesia to fix temporary ban on new forest clearing for plantations and logging

Press Releases / Marina Bay Sands Singapore

Sands Expo and Convention Centre awarded prestigious LEED® Platinum Green Building Certification

...carbon emissions of the convention centre, making the entire operations of the MICE facility carbon neutral. This makes every meeting and conference held at Marina Bay Sands a sustainable one, to begi...

28 Jun 2019

Sands Expo and Convention Centre awarded prestigious LEED® Platinum Green Building Certification

News / Lifestyle

How the Philippines can lead in sustainable tourism in Asia during Covid

Bohol, a province in the Philippines’ Central Visayas region known for its spectacular beaches and emerging destinations, has become one of the country’s top tourist draws in the past five years. The ...

12 Aug 2020

How the Philippines can lead in sustainable tourism in Asia during Covid

News / Food & Agriculture

Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?

When the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo instituted a quarantine in late March due to the Covid-19 crisis, Hevea-Tec, one of the country’s largest natural rubber companies, feared the worst. The firm’s d...

16 Jul 2020

Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?

News / Energy

Energy from greenhouse gases is possible

...carbon dioxide system of electrolytes that converts dissolved carbon dioxide to sodium bicarbonate and hydrogen, with a flow of electric current. Efficiency is high – with 50 per cent of the carbon di...

10 Feb 2019

Energy from greenhouse gases is possible

Exploring offsets for a sustainable business

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can we really restore or protect natural habitats to ‘offset’ those we destroy?

In the forests of northern Sweden, a major train line cuts through land originally protected for migratory birds—so new seasonal wetlands have been established for the birds nearby. In southern Uganda...

6 Aug 2019

Can we really restore or protect natural habitats to ‘offset’ those we destroy?

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