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Children in Laos get free school lunches in government and World Bank programme

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

...carbon in soils. By doing so, these countries would prevent smallholder food producers from cultivating their land, severely threatening their ability to produce food, access water and maintain their ...

13 Dec 2018

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

News / Cities

After Taal eruption, innovative Filipinos find earth-friendly ways to help victims cope

Thousands of Filipinos fled their homes when a volcano near the capital, Manila, spewed ash and lava on the afternoon of 12 January. The eruption of Taal volcano—considered the country's deadliest, ha...

28 Jan 2020

After Taal eruption, innovative Filipinos find earth-friendly ways to help victims cope

Opinion / Water

Blue acceleration: our dash for ocean resources mirrors what we’ve already done to the land

Humans are leaving a heavy footprint on the Earth, but when did we become the main driver of change in the planet’s ecosystems? Many scientists point to the 1950s, when all kinds of socioeconomic tren...

28 Jan 2020

Blue acceleration: our dash for ocean resources mirrors what we’ve already done to the land

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Hotter days are a dangerous threat to pregnancy

About a quarter of children in the United States are born two to three weeks before their due date, which qualifies them as “early term.” Pregnancies typically last 40 weeks, so you might think that b...

4 Dec 2019

Hotter days are a dangerous threat to pregnancy

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Top business leaders in sustainability recognised in the first Eco-Business A-List

Singapore, 29 November 2019 – The first who’s who list of influential sustainability executives in Asia Pacific was unveiled today at a special evening e...

4 Dec 2019

Top business leaders in sustainability recognised in the first Eco-Business A-List

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Jane Goodall returns to Tanzania for tree-planting mission

Dr Jane Goodall is known across the globe as the world's leading primatologist and a prominent environmentalist. When she was 26 years old, Goodall travelled from England to Tanzania, to explore the l...

29 Mar 2019

Jane Goodall returns to Tanzania for tree-planting mission

Opinion / Waste

The case for building a circular economy

...carbon into the atmosphere. Technology can help us with intermediary solutions – such as natural gas and nuclear power – as well as renewable sources like solar, wind and biomass.” The flipside Techno...

26 Apr 2019

The case for building a circular economy

News / Energy

Clean energy can provide 100% of electricity

...carbon reduction targets and halt the worst of global climatic upheaval,” said Paul Allen, project coordinator of Zero Carbon Britain, CAT’s flagship research project. Since a previous assessment in 2...

13 Sep 2018

Clean energy can provide 100% of electricity

woman charging phone through solar panels

News / Energy

Switch to clean energy and save $500 mln, aid agencies told

...Carbon-emitting fossil fuels can be used as a weapon, hijacked by militants or sold on the black market and sometimes have to be flown vast distances to reach off-grid relief camps. That creates costs...

11 Dec 2018

Switch to clean energy and save $500 mln, aid agencies told

News / Food & Agriculture

Drought, deluge, disease: How should the natural rubber industry respond to climate change?

Dr Sara Bumrungsri grew up farming food crops in central Thailand. After moving to southern Thailand, where he began working at the Prince of Songkla University in 1997, he missed his farm. He scouted...

26 Jan 2020

Drought, deluge, disease: How should the natural rubber industry respond to climate change?

News / Carbon & Climate

UN warns of millions of premature deaths by 2050 due to environmental damage

...carbon emissions and curbing plastic pollution to tackling food waste. Adopting less meat-intensive diets and reducing food waste, for example, would reduce the need to increase food production by 50 ...

14 Mar 2019

UN warns of millions of premature deaths by 2050 due to environmental damage

News / Policy & Finance

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

...carbon dioxide emissions — higher than Brazil’s emissions, and equivalent to 12th place on the list of top emitting countries. The report was released during a policy forum in advance of the World Ban...

25 Apr 2019

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

Waste collector in Indonesia segregating trash

Opinion / Waste

How to solve Asia’s waste crisis

...carbon dioxide (CO2) in our oceans to produce around 70 per cent of our oxygen. They singlehandedly remove a third of atmospheric CO2 in this way. These very small creatures are sensitive to changes i...

4 Jan 2019

How to solve Asia’s waste crisis

News / Transport

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

...carbon transport is particularly important, backers say. Dharmaraj Regmi, a member of parliament from Karnali province, said his region, one of the poorest in Nepal, faces many problems from illiterac...

4 Apr 2019

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment

Indonesian lawmakers have chosen not to pass a raft of controversial legislation that critics say would dismantle environmental and social protections, in the face of massive student-led protests. The...

2 Oct 2019

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment

Research / Singapore International Water Week

SIWW 2018 Blue Paper: What will drive the next era of water management?

Countries will be confronted with an increasingly complex challenge over the next 15 years. Major risks such as poorly managed urbanisation, climate change, and unequal rather than inclusive grow...

3 Dec 2018

SIWW 2018 Blue Paper: What will drive the next era of water management?

News / Energy

Clean energy is vital—but still not enough

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turns it into a carbonate that could stay in the seas and reduce ocean acidification. Hydrogen is already a vehicle fuel. From the materials in hand, chemists co...

17 Jul 2018

Clean energy is vital—but still not enough

News / Food & Agriculture

Vietnamese rubber giant razes indigenous lands as Cambodian government grapples with legacy land issues

When the indigenous Kreung and Kachok communities locked down their villages in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province in March to keep safe from the novel coronavirus, no one knew change was afoot in their a...

11 Jun 2020

Vietnamese rubber giant razes indigenous lands as Cambodian government grapples with legacy land issues

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A boycott is not the answer to palm oil’s environmental problems

...carbon. These habitats are also home to several species such as the Bornean orangutan and Sumatran tiger – both of which are currently listed as critically endangered on the IUCN “red list”, with oil ...

21 Jan 2020

A boycott is not the answer to palm oil’s environmental problems

News / Carbon & Climate

Fish are losing their sense of smell

...carbon emissions now before it’s too late.” Carbon dioxide combines with seawater to produce carbonic acid, which makes the water more acidic. Since the Industrial Revolution, oceanic CO2 has risen by...

1 Aug 2018

Fish are losing their sense of smell

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