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A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped climate action

Greta Thunberg made history again this month when she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The 16-year-old has become the face of youth climate action, going from a lone child sitting outside...

20 Dec 2019

A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped climate action

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How can comedy help us deal with the climate crisis?

Society’s defining issues are rarely presented as raw facts and stats, and climate change is no exception. From the performance of funerals for lost species and glaciers to the claim that the best we ...

19 Dec 2019

How can comedy help us deal with the climate crisis?

News / Energy

Luring power off the grid

...carbon-emitting energy sources such as coal and gas. But small, off-grid solutions still make a small proportion of most countries’ energy supply. The challenge of rolling out clean energy to meet cli...

13 Nov 2018

Luring power off the grid

Press Releases / UN Environment

World pledges to protect polluted, degraded planet as it adopts blueprint for more sustainable future

...carbon economies,” they said. More than 4,700 delegates, including environment ministers, scientists, academics, business leaders and civil society representatives, met in Nairobi for the Assem...

18 Mar 2019

World pledges to protect polluted, degraded planet as it adopts blueprint for more sustainable future

Press Releases / Audi

Showcase of sustainability: the Audi Brand Experience Center at Munich Airport

...carbon dioxide permanently and is being tested for use in dealerships. As an electric filling station, the meteorite is also an important element of the “Charge and Fly” campaign. Until D...

17 Dec 2019

Showcase of sustainability: the Audi Brand Experience Center at Munich Airport

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate conferences are male, pale and stale—it’s time to bring in women

The COP25 climate meeting in Madrid concluded over the weekend. As in past meetings, the talks failed to make much progress on international climate action. And again, the views and needs of women wer...

17 Dec 2019

Climate conferences are male, pale and stale—it’s time to bring in women

News / Carbon & Climate

Tripled climate cuts needed to fulfil pledge

...carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e), the highest levels yet recorded. Just 57 countries, representing 60% of global emissions, were on track to peak emissions by 2030. (A gigatonne is a thousand millio...

29 Nov 2018

Tripled climate cuts needed to fulfil pledge

News / Green Buildings

National University of Singapore welcomes its first net-zero building

...carbon emissions. “Ultimately, our buildings must be more than just bricks and mortar,” Heng added. “They must be human-centric and help to promote interactions among their occupants and connect them ...

31 Jan 2019

National University of Singapore welcomes its first net-zero building

News / Energy

Could solar energy sharing between Australia and Singapore be a model for other regions?

...carbon emissions per unit of electricity generated amongst fossil fuel-fired power plants. More than 70 per cent of the natural gas is piped in from Malaysia and Indonesia; the remainder is liquid nat...

24 Jul 2019

Could solar energy sharing between Australia and Singapore be a model for other regions?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A vegan meat revolution is coming to global fast food chains—and it could help save the planet

A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers. Meat substitutes in supermarkets lacked variety and quality. Plant-based burgers were few and far...

17 Jun 2019

A vegan meat revolution is coming to global fast food chains—and it could help save the planet

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

UN Emissions Gap Report: Five things you need to know

...carbon removal, and accordingly, greater emissions cuts are required to compensate. “ Unless the emissions gap is closed by 2030, it is unlikely we will limit warming below 2˚C. 2) Emissions will no...

28 Nov 2018

UN Emissions Gap Report: Five things you need to know

Press Releases / Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

13th annual Ricoh Eco Action Day launches in support of climate action

...carbon savings from pledges made by each organisation and school with the same amount of natural gas carbon credits generated from an electricity plant on Jurong Island. Eco Action Day Roundtable Si...

3 Apr 2019

13th annual Ricoh Eco Action Day launches in support of climate action

News / Policy & Finance

Investors call on McDonald's and KFC to step up climate change action

An investor group managing some $6.5 trillion on Tuesday called on six of the world's largest fast food restaurants, including McDonald's, KFC and Burger King, to reduce their planet-harming greenhous...

30 Jan 2019

Investors call on McDonald's and KFC to step up climate change action

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

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

...carbon” actually means. The government has set a net zero carbon target for 2050, but in the consultation it is asking people to pick one of three options: net zero carbon dioxide - reducing net car...

16 Jul 2018

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

News / Carbon & Climate

COP24: Coal casts shadow over climate talks in Poland

...carbon dioxide emissions. And Poland generates 80 per cent of its energy from coal. It’s the 10th-largest consumer of the fossil fuel in the world, and the second-biggest in the EU, after Germany. “ ...

7 Dec 2018

COP24: Coal casts shadow over climate talks in Poland

News / Cities

Green and inclusive? Paris builds a zero-carbon future with a social conscience

...carbon neutral" by 2050, meaning they will produce no more climate-changing emissions than they can offset, such as by planting carbon-absorbing trees. Each is going about achieving the goal in its ow...

2 Oct 2018

Green and inclusive? Paris builds a zero-carbon future with a social conscience

News / Corporate Responsibility

Unilever has pioneered sustainable business for the last decade. But has it done enough?

In 2010, the maker of household brands such as Lifebuoy soap, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Lipton Tea, and Surf laundry detergent set out to make "sustainable living commonplace for 8 billion people"....

13 May 2020

Unilever has pioneered sustainable business for the last decade. But has it done enough?

News / Policy & Finance

Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

...carbon markets, although Egypt, on behalf of the Arab Group of nations, and Saudi Arabia have opposed its inclusion, they added. The wording is key to avoid a repeat of previous rights abuses linked t...

13 Dec 2018

Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

News / Carbon & Climate

New fuel from CO2 can slow climate change

...carbon dioxide from spent fossil fuel back into fuel again and keep levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide down. Reductions possible Something like one-fifth of the global carbon dioxide emissions that ...

27 Jun 2018

New fuel from CO2 can slow climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone

Bali’s mangrove-rich Benoa Bay is now legally off-limits for any reclamation or development activities, following the government’s designation of the area as a maritime conservation zone. Spanning som...

14 Oct 2019

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone

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