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Reduce and reuse raw materials to slash waste and emissions, UN and think-tanks urge

The rapid consumption of raw materials must be curbed to cut waste and carbon emissions, the United Nations and global think-tanks have urged, with resource consumption set to almost double by 2060, e...

24 Oct 2018

Reduce and reuse raw materials to slash waste and emissions, UN and think-tanks urge

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The long arm of the NGOs

...carbon” such as coal and oil sands has been building for over a decade. Inevitably, once Western financial institutions began divesting from their own funds, they would also evaluate the policies of t...

9 Nov 2018

The long arm of the NGOs

Children in Myanmar hold a solar lamp provided by Panasonic

News / Energy

Power to the people: How light after dark is dimming poverty

...carbon emissions in the atmosphere driving the threat of climate change, how countries provide energy to their people is critical for sustainable development in the region. Salt and solar Electrificat...

4 Mar 2019

Power to the people: How light after dark is dimming poverty

News / Carbon & Climate

Time to put the ocean at the heart of climate talks

...carbon dioxide emissions on the ocean and cryosphere. But we do know that the seas are our biggest carbon sink – absorbing over 90 per cent of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere from burni...

20 Aug 2018

Time to put the ocean at the heart of climate talks

News / Food & Agriculture

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

...carbon-rich peatlands, many remain unconvinced that the RSPO label genuinely stands for responsibly grown palm oil. Green groups have long accused the organisation of being too lax on its members, whi...

16 Oct 2019

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

2019 was the year Australians confronted the fact that a healthy environment is more than just a pretty waterfall in a national park; a nice extra we can do without. We do not survive without air to b...

31 Mar 2020

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

A woman harvesting mung beans in Cambodia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story

...carbon emissions—that is, the carbon footprint. According to the network’s own analysis, each of these land use types is nearly in balance or in surplus, except for the carbon footprint. Conventiona...

31 Jul 2018

Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story

News / Carbon & Climate

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

...Carbon Brief: “If temperatures were to rise by 3.5C relative to pre-industrial levels – as is predicted to result from current national policies for the reduction of global carbon emissions – the numb...

17 Aug 2018

Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves

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News / Carbon & Climate

Protesting for the planet: Is climate activism alive in Singapore?

...carbon tax, Singapore is on track to a 3°C warming scenario by 2100, far above the 1.5°C limit recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Is climate activism dead in Singapore? No ...

9 Jul 2019

Protesting for the planet: Is climate activism alive in Singapore?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does it mean to live with climate change?

...carbon features, could lead the world toward a more-climate resilient future—or they could undermine food, water, and security for decades to come. Patrick V. Verkooijen is Chief Executive Officer of ...

13 Nov 2018

What does it mean to live with climate change?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change 'biggest global health threat' of century, doctors warn

...carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are shrinking nutrients in cereal crops, hiking the risk of malnutrition even for those who get enough to eat. Mental health threats, meanwhile—from children wo...

29 Nov 2018

Climate change 'biggest global health threat' of century, doctors warn

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesian governor jailed over bribes to award infrastructure projects

...carbon” without helping fund conservation efforts. This story was published with permission from Mongabay.com.

11 Apr 2019

Indonesian governor jailed over bribes to award infrastructure projects

Press Releases / Green Is The New Black

The Conscious Festival by Green Is The New Black is back for its 4th year as a carbon neutral and zero waste festival

...Carbon Neutral energy retailer, to offset 105 metric tons of carbon dioxide by purchasing carbon credits which will go towards the construction of a new GridConnected Hydropower Plant in Quang Nam, Vi...

23 Oct 2018

The Conscious Festival by Green Is The New Black is back for its 4th year as a carbon neutral and zero waste festival

News / Policy & Finance

Bangkok climate talks: key outcomes on the Paris Agreement ‘rulebook’

...carbon markets, but progress stalled in some others. Disputes included whether rich and poor countries should include the same types of information in their climate pledges, how developed countries sh...

11 Sep 2018

Bangkok climate talks: key outcomes on the Paris Agreement ‘rulebook’

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A woman-focused climate agenda

From teen activist Greta Thunberg’s much-publicised transatlantic journey on a zero-emissions boat to attend the United Nations General Assembly to the proliferation of climate protests, the world is ...

27 Sep 2019

A woman-focused climate agenda

News / Water

From Ikea to Gap, firms aim to use scarce water more wisely

Putting on a pair of jeans or drinking a beer has a cost beyond the pricetag, with billions of tonnes of water used globally each year to manufacture them and other consumer goods, companies said at a...

27 Aug 2019

From Ikea to Gap, firms aim to use scarce water more wisely

A new Greenpeace International investigation has revealed that Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.[1]

News / Food & Agriculture

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

...carbon-rich peatlands to human rights abuses. A year ago, the company saw its facilities in Sulawesi graffitied and an Indonesian band perform on a refinery roof in a show of rock ‘n roll protest by G...

9 Oct 2019

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

Opinion / Transport

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

Over the past few years, around the time when Diwali—the Hindu festival of lights and India's biggest holiday—ends and winter sets in, Delhi's air quality has plummeted to dangerous levels, initiating...

22 Nov 2019

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

News / Energy

Bioenergy: A solution to three problems?

...carbon storage, growth and yield, and sustainability. This means testing out different species—woody biomass species such as Gliricidia sepium and Calliandra calothyrsus; oil seed trees such as Caloph...

15 Oct 2018

Bioenergy: A solution to three problems?

News / Energy

IEA: Clean energy transition makes reforms ‘inescapable’ for oil states

...carbons are no longer their main source of revenue”, the IEA says. It adds: “In this scenario, there is an inescapable imperative to prepare for a world in which hydrocarbons are no longer the main so...

26 Oct 2018

IEA: Clean energy transition makes reforms ‘inescapable’ for oil states

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