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Global warming grows less nutritious rice

...carbon dioxide has an overall lower nutritional value. The grain contains lower levels of protein, and iron and zinc—metals vital for health in trace form—and also consistent declines in vitamin B. Th...

30 May 2018

Global warming grows less nutritious rice

News / Policy & Finance

Finance for climate action rising, but still 'far to go'—analysts

...carbonise economies in the coming decades, as governments vowed to do in the 2015 Paris Agreement, it noted. “ The impacts are happening now, and it is an issue that is far more front and centre for ...

28 Nov 2018

Finance for climate action rising, but still 'far to go'—analysts

News / Carbon & Climate

Most protected areas lack proper policing

Three-quarters of all the world’s protected areas – bits of ocean and wilderness nominally made safe for animals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, plants and fungi produced by 500 million years of e...

14 Jun 2019

Most protected areas lack proper policing

Opinion / Energy

'Renewable energy breeding' can stop Australia blowing the carbon budget—if we're quick

...carbon budget for electricity generation is about one-third of 1 per cent of the global carbon budget. Overall, then, this gives us a total carbon budget for Australia’s electricity sector of 3.3 giga...

17 Apr 2018

'Renewable energy breeding' can stop Australia blowing the carbon budget—if we're quick

Opinion / Energy

Amazon’s electric trucks: US$20 billion turning point for sustainable shipping

Amazon is adding 10,000 electric trucks in 2021 reaching 100,000 by 2030. As the fleet rolls out, Amazon will learn how to optimise routes, electricity and batteries to maximise savings. That ...

25 Sep 2019

Amazon’s electric trucks: US$20 billion turning point for sustainable shipping

News / Policy & Finance

Scarce resource pushes Indonesia to chart a 'green development' course

...carbon tax schemes or carbon trading. This kind of approach makes the green development plan a much more investment-oriented model than Indonesia’s previous mid-term development plans. “Previous devel...

20 Jun 2018

Scarce resource pushes Indonesia to chart a 'green development' course

A burning peatland inside the area palm oil concession of PT Sumatera Unggul Makmur in West Kalimantan on 22 August 2018. Image: Greenpeace

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

...carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, is the country’s carbon-rich peatlands, vast areas of which have been drained and burned to make way for plantations, said the boss of IIF, which was set up by ...

3 Sep 2018

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

News / Energy

Cocoa fuel combats climate change

Sometimes the best solutions to energy problems – and to the fight against climate change – are the simple ones, like cocoa fuel. Ghana is one of the world’s leading producers of cocoa – the vital ing...

18 Mar 2019

Cocoa fuel combats climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable

...carbon sinks—stores of atmospheric carbon locked away in the soils and the forests—into sources of greenhouse gases that could accelerate global warming. These future hazards include thawing of the pe...

8 Aug 2018

Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable

News / Manufacturing

Carbon prices too low to protect Southeast Asian forests from rubber expansion—report

...carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Putting a cost on carbon emissions provides an incentive to do business more sustainably, and a disincentive to engage in environmentally damag...

21 Mar 2018

Carbon prices too low to protect Southeast Asian forests from rubber expansion—report

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

The effects of climate change, including floods and extreme temperatures, have become more important push factors in migration than economic inequality or conflict, according to a global study. The s...

9 May 2019

Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

News / Carbon & Climate

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

The Friday after Thanksgiving is usually a day for chaotic shopping and gorging on leftover Turkey, but this year was a little different. In the early afternoon, the Trump Administration released a ma...

5 Dec 2018

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

News / Energy

South Africa aims for 'zero carbon' buildings in green push

...carbon all around the world by 2050 at the latest," Pryce told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. ‘Net-zero' future Cities that achieve "net zero carbon" would produce very few climate-changing emissions...

30 May 2018

South Africa aims for 'zero carbon' buildings in green push

green tea smallholder development in Lao PDR

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Promoting green business: 3 priorities for action

The ugly side of strong economic growth in Asia and the Pacific over the past fifty years is the damage this growth has done to the environment. Extreme poverty in developing Asia fell from 53 per cen...

4 Feb 2019

Promoting green business: 3 priorities for action

News / Food & Agriculture

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against EU's ‘unfair’ claims

...carbon emissions. The European Commission in March approved a measure to phase out palm oil-based biofuel by 2030. “ If you are a palm oil producer you must be a maniac running around with a chainsaw...

6 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against EU's ‘unfair’ claims

News / Cities

Pig out? Asia gets a taste of climate-friendly 'pork'

It's Friday afternoon at the Venetian Macao hotel's Portofino restaurant, and on the terrace a handful of chefs in white uniforms are preparing the casino hub's famous pork chop bun for waiting guests...

26 Nov 2018

Pig out? Asia gets a taste of climate-friendly 'pork'

News / Food & Agriculture

Asia’s meat, fish and dairy suppliers: Who are the sustainability leaders and laggards?

Asia’s rising middle class is fueling a voracious appetite for animal protein, but many of its meat, fish and dairy suppliers are failing to manage impacts such as emissions, deforestation and water u...

12 Nov 2019

Asia’s meat, fish and dairy suppliers: Who are the sustainability leaders and laggards?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Four lessons we should learn from the pandemic

...carbon into the atmosphere. We destroy entire animal and plant species at an alarming rate. We have cut down forests everywhere. We poison the soil and the water, and our garbage covers the floors of ...

15 Apr 2020

Four lessons we should learn from the pandemic

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Will China cast its vote for Antarctica, and the planet?

...carbon. And we know that both local wildlife and planetary processes are at risk from the legal and illegal industrial fishing of krill, squid and fish. Armed with this knowledge, it is hardly surpris...

26 Oct 2018

Will China cast its vote for Antarctica, and the planet?

Press Releases / Global Compact Network Singapore

MPA launches Singapore’s first Maritime Sustainability Reporting guide

...Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC). For more information about membership or to explore partnership opportunities, please contact info@unglobalcompact.sg. For media queries, please con...

23 Aug 2019

MPA launches Singapore’s first Maritime Sustainability Reporting guide

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