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Sea sponges and coastal communities feel the squeeze of rising sea temperatures

...cies of sponge can even break down and recycle the calcium carbonate from dead corals and molluscs. Given the important contributions sponges make to marine environments and biomedical research, scie...

25 May 2022

Sea sponges and coastal communities feel the squeeze of rising sea temperatures

News / Energy

Low cost curbs of methane leaks from 'ultra-emitters' could save billions: report

...cience, 4 February 2022. The authors include researchers from Kayrros SAS, a French geoanalytics firm, and Riley Duren, chief executive officer of non-profit Carbon Mapper. “The creation of a global...

7 Feb 2022

Low cost curbs of methane leaks from 'ultra-emitters' could save billions: report

News / Carbon & Climate

State of the climate: start of 2022 is the fifth warmest on record

...coincided with record-low Antarctic sea ice cover and an ice shelf in East Antarctica the size of New York City collapsed into the ocean. Climate models and observations Climate models provide physics...

6 May 2022

State of the climate: start of 2022 is the fifth warmest on record

News / Waste

9 biggest sustainability wins of 2022

...common stock, which comprised the remaining 98 per cent of its overall shares, to the Holdfast Collective, a 501(c)(4) charity which allows it to make unlimited political donations. Protecting wildli...

14 Dec 2022

9 biggest sustainability wins of 2022

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How to avert a climate catastrophe

...come disparities across countries into account. Establishing global governance mechanisms that focus on the public-goods and collective-action challenges of climate change will not be easy. Concerns a...

29 Sep 2021

How to avert a climate catastrophe

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Getting the social cost of carbon right

...Council of Economic Advisers, was lead author of the 1995 IPCC Climate Assessment, and co-chaired the international High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.pro...

19 Feb 2021

Getting the social cost of carbon right

Press Releases / The Prophets

‘Rapic cycle’ - Oxwash secures £500K in 15 hours

...Capital (NYC/SF), who are backing the sustainable on-demand laundry service trying to achieve net zero carbon emissions for the whole process, from collection, through washing, back to delivery. Clea...

19 Nov 2021

‘Rapic cycle’ - Oxwash secures £500K in 15 hours

Forests in an island in Langkawi in northern Malaysia

News / Policy & Finance

Groups call for US$60 billion increase in annual biodiversity funding

...CN’s Oberle pointed to research showing that the economic impacts of the twin climate and biodiversity crises are in the “trillions of dollars because ecosystem services linked to biodiversity are ero...

14 Mar 2022

Groups call for US$60 billion increase in annual biodiversity funding

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Eye of fire: What Mexico's latest gas leak tells us about sustainability scores

...complex calculation methodologies, counterintuitive when it comes to adding transparency to corporate behaviour? The emerging trend of highly specific, topical sustainability scores, combined with res...

9 Jul 2021

Eye of fire: What Mexico's latest gas leak tells us about sustainability scores

homeless man in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

News / Cities

Poorest people will suffer worst from cities’ heat

...cent. And in Los Angeles, one of the richest cities in one of the richest states of the world’s richest nation, citizens in the most heavily Latin-American districts could be as much as 3.7°C hotter t...

12 Mar 2021

Poorest people will suffer worst from cities’ heat

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Science-based target setters are reducing emissions faster than expected. Will they be trend setters?

...chedule. A typical SBTi company is reducing annual emissions at a rate that exceeds the rate needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to pathways derived from climate scenarios. The research also s...

29 Jan 2021

Science-based target setters are reducing emissions faster than expected. Will they be trend setters?

Opinion / Energy

Replace Russian oil and gas with renewables

...connect between current fossil-fuel production plans and climate pledges. Under current policies, global warming is on track to reach a catastrophic 2.7° Celsius this century. We need to be rapidly cl...

29 Mar 2022

Replace Russian oil and gas with renewables

News / Carbon & Climate

'Not next year. Not next month. Now': youth activists demand real action on climate at COP26

...co-Business Commenting on the UK’s prime minister’s speech at COP26 on Monday, Alex Scott, diplomacy and geopolitics lead at climate think tank E3G lauded Johnson’s call for accelerated climate actio...

3 Nov 2021

'Not next year. Not next month. Now': youth activists demand real action on climate at COP26

News / Energy

ADB spearheads plans to retire coal plants in Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia

...cal community to protect the social and economic circumstances of the region that will be currently attached to coal power," he told Eco-Business. Campaigners have been quick to highlight that HSBC ...

17 Aug 2021

ADB spearheads plans to retire coal plants in Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia

News / Waste

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

...clarification: “check locally, not recycled in all communities.” The problem is that while some people might put their coffee capsules in their recycling bins, most recycling facilities, called materi...

23 Dec 2022

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

David Chua (left) with youth delegates at the United Nations

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore youth calling for bolder climate action 'need to be patient': Youth Council CEO

...cy research group Climate Action Tracker (CAT). If all countries were to follow Singapore's approach, warming could reach up to a catastrophic 4 degrees Celsius, according to CAT's assessment. The go...

24 Jan 2022

Singapore youth calling for bolder climate action 'need to be patient': Youth Council CEO

News / Food & Agriculture

Food system causes one third of greenhouse gases

...ce air quality, reduce water pollution, slow extinction rates and make farms more profitable. The challenge is to increase crop yields per hectare, reduce food waste, improve farm efficiency and switc...

18 Nov 2020

Food system causes one third of greenhouse gases

News / Transport

EV race: The battle for dominance looks set to intensify as startups sniff new territory

...ces to solar power plant owners and electric vehicle leasing services, announced it would create a new vertical that would manufacture electric vehicles at Chakan, India’s auto manufacturing Mecca loc...

31 Mar 2023

EV race: The battle for dominance looks set to intensify as startups sniff new territory

News / Carbon & Climate

Forum for the Future appoints Dhaval Negandhi as climate lead

...Conservancy, where he was an ecological economist, working on ways to reduce the social and environmental impact of infrastructure projects in India. Prior to The Nature Conservancy, he worked for the...

4 Aug 2021

Forum for the Future appoints Dhaval Negandhi as climate lead

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Rise of the chief sustainability officer

...CSOs in publicly traded companies in the USA – and in 2020, Fortune 500 companies hired more CSOs than in the previous three years combined. Cognisant of the crucial role of CSOs in accelerating busin...

18 Aug 2021

Rise of the chief sustainability officer

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