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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

News / Carbon & Climate

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

...carbon stocks, extrapolating the figures for below ground and then adding in a separate estimate of soil carbon from an existing database. The study estimates that the total amount of carbon held in t...

2 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

News / Green Buildings

Paris is building the eco-community of the future right now. Here's how.

...carbon dioxide reductions they were designed to. With Clichy-Batignolles, Paris has demonstrated the capabilities of many existing tools to build carbon-neutral cities. By putting so many green buildi...

24 May 2018

Paris is building the eco-community of the future right now. Here's how.

Opinion / Transport

Five ways the shipping industry can reduce its carbon emissions

...carbonise by allowing it to run off electricity produced via a low carbon grid. Fuel switch to lower carbon fuels for propulsion. Fuel choice is key The most hotly debated of these measures is und...

17 Apr 2018

Five ways the shipping industry can reduce its carbon emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Too hot to handle? Expect more heat waves due to climate change, experts warn

...Carbon emissions In 2015, countries signing the Paris Agreement set a goal of limiting a rise in average world surface temperatures to "well below" 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, while "pursuin...

30 Jul 2018

Too hot to handle? Expect more heat waves due to climate change, experts warn

Singapore's only landfill, the purpose-built trash island of Semakau

News / Waste

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

...carbon emitters and choke the incentive to recycle. “ We are not relying on waste-to-energy over the long term. Though it’s necessary infrastructure now, we will eventually move towards more sustaina...

25 May 2019

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

Opinion / Water

Vital for life, heat and power—what you never knew about salt water

...carbon dioxide out of the air To prevent the worst effects of climate change we need to extract carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and store it on a huge scale. The ocean currently already does this, r...

18 Sep 2018

Vital for life, heat and power—what you never knew about salt water

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise

...carbon, and the drainage that occurs when they’re deforested releases that carbon into the atmosphere. “From the perspective of greenhouse gas emissions this type of conversion is especially disastrou...

15 Feb 2019

Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise

Opinion / Energy

Powering up rural areas can fight unemployment in Africa and Asia

A youth population boom in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia is creating a huge challenge to governments: how to employ them all. For example, according to the World Bank, India has to find 8 million...

18 Jul 2019

Powering up rural areas can fight unemployment in Africa and Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore business school launches Southeast Asia's first sustainability major

A Singapore business school has launched Southeast Asia's first major on sustainability. The new course at Singapore Management University (SMU) aims to grow and promote the understanding of sustainab...

17 Feb 2019

Singapore business school launches Southeast Asia's first sustainability major

News / Policy & Finance

Philippines will lose climate funding if absent from COP talks, activists warn

Climate talks are a “waste of time and money”. That was the assessment of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on climate change conferences that triggered environmentalists early this month. To add f...

17 Jun 2019

Philippines will lose climate funding if absent from COP talks, activists warn

Press Releases / USAID Green Invest Asia

Southeast Asia’s businesswomen ride coffee’s third wave: study in four emerging economies

BANGKOK, May 29, 2019— Dozens of women-led and owned coffee businesses in Southeast Asia are featured in a new study conducted by USAID Green Invest Asia, in collaboration with the International...

31 May 2019

Southeast Asia’s businesswomen ride coffee’s third wave: study in four emerging economies

News / Carbon & Climate

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

...carbon emitter and polluter—is fast getting cleaner, Southeast Asia's air is becoming markedly less breathable for the regional bloc of 655 million people, an annual study of air pollution dominated b...

25 Feb 2020

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

News / Cities

South China Sea expedition to uncover impact of megacities on coastal waters

What is the impact of industrialisation and megacities on coastal seas? What amounts of contaminants such as microplastics, ultraviolet (UV) filters and coffee are ending up in these water bodies? A g...

14 Aug 2019

South China Sea expedition to uncover impact of megacities on coastal waters

Opinion / Energy

Blockchain can speed up Asia’s clean energy transition. Here’s how

We have just over a decade to contain climate warming to below 1.5°C. Any feasible economic path to achieving that goal requires us to obtain nearly all of our energy—85 per cent by 2050—from renewabl...

15 Jul 2019

Blockchain can speed up Asia’s clean energy transition. Here’s how

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...

23 Oct 2018

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

News / Food & Agriculture

The coolest sustainability innovations at Ecosperity 2019

...carbon emissions. To explore how fashion can meet consumer demand while protecting the environment, Singapore-headquartered investment company Temasek — host of the annual Ecosperity Conference — laun...

31 Oct 2019

The coolest sustainability innovations at Ecosperity 2019

Press Releases / Inciner8 Limited

Helping island communities retain their beauty

...carbon footprint and the cost of transporting waste. And despite being specialist, dual-chamber medical incinerators, they’re easy to operate by local communities. As Stewart Williams SPREP&rs...

21 Mar 2019

Helping island communities retain their beauty

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Can China really lead the way to an 'ecological civilisation'?

...carbon ways of life, and oppose extravagance and excessive consumption.” Dream on, you might say. Even in the more progressive Western European nations, it’s hard to find a political leader who would ...

31 Aug 2018

Can China really lead the way to an 'ecological civilisation'?

Press Releases / Liter of Light

Partners in sustainable development: Liter of Light joins Peace Boat’s 100th voyage

...carbon emissions by a bottom-up approach and spread the idea of green and sustainable technology. From Yokohama, Japan, the voyage will cover a southern hemisphere route, docking in 19 ports around A...

12 Dec 2018

Partners in sustainable development: Liter of Light joins Peace Boat’s 100th voyage

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