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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Want to ward off the apocalypse? Invest in women's health and rights

World population continues to grow. The latest UN projections, released this week, indicate that we will add another 2 billion people to the planet by 2050 and 3 billion by the end of the century. Wh...

24 Jun 2019

Want to ward off the apocalypse? Invest in women's health and rights

News / Energy

Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

...carbonisation when it had ignored its own research that warned of climate change impacts as early as the 1980s, and in the years since has pumped billions into fossil fuels extraction and been linked ...

24 Nov 2018

Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats

The American public ranks scientists as some of the most trusted voices in the country. So it made sense for eminent climate scientists, such as James Hansen, Michael Mann, and Peter Kalmus, to sound ...

22 Aug 2019

Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats

Opinion / Lifestyle

How can access to land ensure sustainable living?

Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough or climate activists like Greta Thunberg. We have seen enough to be convinced that limitless economic growth and the ...

22 Aug 2019

How can access to land ensure sustainable living?

News / Carbon & Climate

Air pollution killing more people than smoking, say scientists

Air pollution is killing more people every year than smoking, according to research published on Tuesday that called for urgent action to stop burning fossil fuels. Researchers in Germany and Cyprus e...

13 Mar 2019

Air pollution killing more people than smoking, say scientists

News / Food & Agriculture

Biomass study finds humans are wiping out wild mammals

...carbon found in all life on Earth, the team found. They also calculated that humans hold just a hundredth of a per cent of that carbon. But that tiny fraction does little to indicate how much we’ve sh...

29 May 2018

Biomass study finds humans are wiping out wild mammals

Children plant mangrove saplings in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

...carbon ecosystems—an umbrella term used to describe mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows that can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store these for hundreds of years. These ec...

3 Apr 2018

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

A girl sifts through trash in Nyaung U, Myanmar

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Achieving the SDGs is the best way to honour Mandela's legacy

...Carbon dioxide emissions must be taxed and reduced. Fossil-fuel industries must have their subsidies cut off. And financial support must be delivered to the least-developed countries that are most vul...

8 Oct 2018

Achieving the SDGs is the best way to honour Mandela's legacy

Press Releases / ID Capital Pte Ltd

Announcing Future Food Asia 2020 #FoodIsTheNewCool

ID Capital announces the fourth edition of Future Food Asia - APAC’s premier AgriFoodTech competition, and its title partners Food has always been a necessity, a source of joy and a way of cult...

2 Mar 2020

Announcing Future Food Asia 2020 #FoodIsTheNewCool

News / Waste

Marina Bay Sands just chose single-use plastic bottles to serve water in Singapore—but it is not alone

...carbon footprint than alternatives in the Singapore context. Plastic is also much cheaper than the alternatives. A single PET bottle costs about 25 cents, half the price of a Tetra Pak carton and is a...

8 Nov 2019

Marina Bay Sands just chose single-use plastic bottles to serve water in Singapore—but it is not alone

News / Policy & Finance

Hong Kong seeks bigger role in BRI

...carbon economy. We’ve learned our mistakes in the West, in China… Do we need to repeat those? Pat-Nie Woo, partner, KPMG Business Reporting and Sustainability The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estima...

20 Jul 2018

Hong Kong seeks bigger role in BRI

News / Carbon & Climate

Himalayan glacier melting rate has doubled—this could affect 800m people in Asia

Rising temperatures are causing glaciers that harbour 600 billion tonnes of ice in the Himalayas to melt more quickly in recent years, and scientists warn that this will lead to water shortages for 80...

21 Jun 2019

Himalayan glacier melting rate has doubled—this could affect 800m people in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Lost business to the haze? There’s insurance for that—and payouts are triggered by air pollution

...carbon monoxide. The risk model used to create HazeShield was developed using a tool devised by Harvard and Columbia, the universities that in 2015 calculated the death toll of that year's haze crisis...

4 Oct 2018

Lost business to the haze? There’s insurance for that—and payouts are triggered by air pollution

Coal fired power plant along the Chambal River in Rajasthan

Opinion / Energy

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

In 2015, farmers and fishworkers from rural India sued the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, over impacts from a disastrous coal-fired power plant project that they said destroyed their livelihoods ...

7 Nov 2018

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

News / Carbon & Climate

Sea level rise due to Antarctic ice melt has ‘tripled over past five years’

...Carbon Brief that the findings show “there now should be no doubt that Antarctica is losing ice due to regional climate change, likely linked to global warming”. Melting continent The new research was...

15 Jun 2018

Sea level rise due to Antarctic ice melt has ‘tripled over past five years’

A firefighter in Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia looks across the smog generated by wildfires.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is Hothouse Earth inevitable?

Nearly 50 years ago, the Club of Rome’s report “Limits to Growth” warned that if economic growth continued apace without regard for the environment, the world could face ecological and economic collap...

22 Oct 2018

Is Hothouse Earth inevitable?

Opinion / Waste

Confronting the global waste crisis

The world is mired in a serious, if underreported, crisis. Every year, humans generate about two billion tons of household waste, and much more industrial, hazardous, electronic, medical, and construc...

19 Dec 2018

Confronting the global waste crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

Ireland’s household pollution tops EU league

...carbon emissions from Irish homes are the highest in the 28-member European Union, mainly due to the large-scale use of coal, peat and oil. A report by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEA...

25 Apr 2018

Ireland’s household pollution tops EU league

Opinion / Cities

In Gorakhpur, citizens use nature to prevent floods

Monsoon season has always brought torrential downpours to Gorakhpur, India, but the city has seen record-breaking rainfall in the last few years. Residents of the northern Indian city often find their...

11 Oct 2019

In Gorakhpur, citizens use nature to prevent floods

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuel doublespeak

...carbonised economy. And so far, it is succeeding, because it has convinced governments of multiple falsehoods. For starters, there is the claim that natural gas can be a “bridge fuel” to a stable clim...

20 Jul 2018

Fossil fuel doublespeak

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