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Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

CR and External Affairs: brothers in arms or long-lost cousins?

...ther alignment? Are there areas where you’re pulling in the opposite direction? Inform the workings of each other. Can the learnings from your CR activities inform the public policy work of your exter...

15 Jun 2017

CR and External Affairs: brothers in arms or long-lost cousins?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target

...The 1.5℃ and 2℃ targets are designed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. It’s certainly true that the more we warm the planet, the worse the impacts are likely to be. However, we are already...

16 Aug 2016

We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target

News / Food & Agriculture

Korindo declares forest clearing ban in wake of NGO pressure

...The Secretariat is investigating the case and will take the appropriate action against the assessors, if our investigation concludes they have breached the conditions of their licence." The Secretaria...

13 Jan 2017

Korindo declares forest clearing ban in wake of NGO pressure

News / Water

Asians are in the dark about the region's water pollution crisis

...they are flouting these laws. This has dire implications for the health of impoverished rural communities and their livelihoods, added WRI, which conducted the research as part of its Strengthening th...

6 Sep 2017

Asians are in the dark about the region's water pollution crisis

News / Cities

Hong Kong plans for a city that’s growing older

...the population and the local economy. Planners here still see Hong Kong that way. But they also are looking at the long-term trends, and grappling with a force they cannot stop: Hong Kong is getting o...

14 Jun 2017

Hong Kong plans for a city that’s growing older

News / Policy & Finance

Emerging economies take lead on going green, but investment needed

...They see the co-benefits between dealing with congestion, air pollution and other development needs, and they see the falling costs of the technology, and they see the opportunity for getting ahead of...

13 Jul 2017

Emerging economies take lead on going green, but investment needed

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia blocks major haze-causing drainage canal

...there are signatures from the local people, the land owners around the canals and the users of the canals to make sure that they agree and have no objection on the construction of dams at the sites.” ...

13 Jul 2017

Indonesia blocks major haze-causing drainage canal

News / Carbon & Climate

Women's wisdom crucial to beating climate change, researchers say

...the status quo, where women can't access toilets or do the kinds of things they need to do?" asked Sam Bickersteth, head of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, one of the backers of the new...

12 May 2016

Women's wisdom crucial to beating climate change, researchers say

Opinion / Energy

Are fossil fuel firms telling investors enough about the risks of climate change?

...these and other factors, rather than mandate any new disclosures now, we urge the SEC to first implement a voluntary program along the lines of its successful 1976 program for the disclosure of sensit...

17 Feb 2017

Are fossil fuel firms telling investors enough about the risks of climate change?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The future of Asia's farms

...the region will likely account for half of the global increase in annual beef and poultry consumption and over three quarters of the rise in fish consumption between now and 2030. And by then, more th...

12 Jul 2017

The future of Asia's farms

Press Releases / Advanced Biofuel Center

Could the moringa industry’s most productive seeds end search for higher seed oil yield?

...the marketplace, maximize returns for our growers." he further added The company says the seeds are also more resistant to disease and drought. An ABC spokesperson said that the seeds, which have be...

12 Jul 2017

Could the moringa industry’s most productive seeds end search for higher seed oil yield?

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists launch contest to 'eggsplain' climate change to Trump

...the winner would be the fastest egg-cooker, "or maybe the person with the funniest story". The winning photo will be mailed to Trump via the White House Media Office. However, the contest isn't the fi...

31 Jan 2017

Scientists launch contest to 'eggsplain' climate change to Trump

News / Energy

As global demand for electricity grows, geothermal energy heats up

...thermal energy — all three of these elements naturally occur together. However this is the exception rather the rule. For the majority of countries, the heat is there, but the fluid, and in some cases...

10 Jan 2017

As global demand for electricity grows, geothermal energy heats up

News / Food & Agriculture

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

...the months after Astra made its pledge, a large number of fires burned across its holdings, contributing to the 2015 Southeast Asian haze crisis. These fires ravaged about half of the forestland in th...

10 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Solar panels on street lamps in Dali, China

News / Policy & Finance

China increases climate change aid to developing countries

...ther developing countries are ready to learn, Zhang said. Moreover, when it comes to reaching the goal of the Paris Agreement - keeping the increase in the global average temperature to below 2℃ above...

11 Nov 2016

China increases climate change aid to developing countries

A provision store in Bandung with many plastic sachets

News / Manufacturing

Unilever moves to close the loop on polluting plastic sachets

...the CreaSolv process, the focus is on extracting the polyethylene plastic that constitutes 60 per cent of plastic sachets. The used sachets are shredded and mixed with a solvent. The mixture is then t...

12 May 2017

Unilever moves to close the loop on polluting plastic sachets

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change legislation sees huge increase

...the 13 other G20 countries there was a gap between the signatories’ pledges to the Paris Agreement and the legal frameworks they had in place to make those cuts. So they will need to adjust their exis...

12 May 2017

Climate change legislation sees huge increase

News / Carbon & Climate

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

...ther tropical forests are a “carbon sink”, meaning they take in more carbon than they release, or a “carbon source”, meaning their carbon emissions exceed their intake. For decades, the consensus has ...

29 Sep 2017

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

News / Policy & Finance

Trump to pick Exxon CEO as secretary of state

...the pick probably next week. Tillerson, 64, is the Texas-based oil company's CEO since 2006 and had moved ahead of other candidates for the position of the country's top diplomat after former New York...

13 Dec 2016

Trump to pick Exxon CEO as secretary of state

News / Water

Rate of ocean warming quadrupled since late 20th century, study reveals

...The study shows the oceans warmed relatively slowly before 1980, and faster since then. The black line in the graph below from the paper shows how the pace picks up after 1980. The authors say in the ...

21 Mar 2017

Rate of ocean warming quadrupled since late 20th century, study reveals

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