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As Cambodia swelters, the heat is on deforestation's role in climate change

As the impacts of climate change become more apparent worldwide, members of the public are connecting more weather events to the phenomenon. In March and April, for example, extreme heat baked mainlan...

18 Jun 2019

As Cambodia swelters, the heat is on deforestation's role in climate change

A woman in Southern Laos tends to her water buffaloes

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Time to dismantle legal barriers to climate finance in Asia-Pacific

...carbon transition is greatest in Asia and the Pacific, where climate change can affect virtually every aspect of people’s lives. Solutions for legal modernisation to improve access to climate finance ...

13 Apr 2018

Time to dismantle legal barriers to climate finance in Asia-Pacific

Activism, Singapore-style. Students from National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS are supporting a movement for their universities to divest from fossil fuels.

News / Lifestyle

Is Singapore’s green movement for real?

...carbon reduction pledges and 800 climate action-related events, to a consumer-facing recycling campaign from DBS Bank, to tap into Singapore's waking environmental consciousness. The problem is, many ...

4 Feb 2019

Is Singapore’s green movement for real?

News / Energy

Should we burn trees for energy?

...carbon into their trunk, leaves, branches — then actually you are not adding carbon to the atmosphere. So people assert it is carbon neutral. There are two main problems with that. One is the fact tha...

17 Jan 2018

Should we burn trees for energy?

Opinion / Cities

Education to strengthen fragile cities

...carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades, as fewer people consumed fewer resources. It is no surprise that environmentalists like Paul Hawken believe that education—and educating girls in ...

20 Sep 2018

Education to strengthen fragile cities

Opinion / Cities

For people working to protect nature, cities can no longer be an afterthought

...carbon, sustainable lifestyles. While valuing and enhancing natural areas in cities has long been an effort of park organisations, environmental justice groups, community land banks and others, large...

18 Sep 2018

For people working to protect nature, cities can no longer be an afterthought

News / Policy & Finance

Climate fund snags threaten opportunity to fight warming - Ban Ki-moon

...carbon emissions and weather the impacts of climate change. Ban told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that decisions by US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the 2015 Paris Agreement on...

28 Aug 2018

Climate fund snags threaten opportunity to fight warming - Ban Ki-moon

News / Food & Agriculture

Is there a 'circular' solution to the world's food problems?

The pesticide exposure, antibiotic resistance, air and water pollution and other factors caused by industrial food production could kill 5 million people a year by 2050, a new report said. That is fou...

29 Jan 2019

Is there a 'circular' solution to the world's food problems?

News / Policy & Finance

OCBC is Southeast Asia's first bank to rule out funding new coal power plants

Singapore's OCBC Bank is the first banking giant in Southeast Asia to rule out financing new coal-fired power plants. In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, the bank's chief executive Samuel Tsi...

18 Apr 2019

OCBC is Southeast Asia's first bank to rule out funding new coal power plants

News / Carbon & Climate

Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns UN

Increasingly complex, growing and related risks, from global warming to pollution and epidemics, threaten human survival if left to escalate, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. A biennial assessm...

16 May 2019

Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns UN

Lines of soy plants criss cross in a field

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

If we want our food to be truly sustainable, we need to be able to tell where it comes from

Our food is eating up the world’s tropical forests, thanks to growing global trade in agricultural commodities from tropical countries. Land for agricultural production comes at the cost of natural ha...

14 Nov 2018

If we want our food to be truly sustainable, we need to be able to tell where it comes from

deforested mountains in borneo to give way to palm oil plantation

News / Carbon & Climate

Rivers in the sky: How deforestation is affecting global water cycles

...carbon” climatic impacts that may play out intensively at local and regional scales. The impact of deforestation on rainfall is one of the most important non-carbon effects. But there are others. For...

3 Sep 2018

Rivers in the sky: How deforestation is affecting global water cycles

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Why should companies care about social responsibility?

Over time, the relationship between business and society has evolved. Business has had a significant impact on the way we travel, homes we inhabit, foods we eat, and conveniences we enjoy. Every produ...

13 Nov 2018

Why should companies care about social responsibility?

Opinion / Energy

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

The collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam hydropower dam in Sanamxay district of Attapeu Province, Lao PDR on July 23 is a major tragedy that took the lives of at least 34 Laotians, with at least 100 more sti...

14 Sep 2018

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

News / Food & Agriculture

To halt deforestation, researchers say we must listen to the forests

Conservationists and palm oil companies tackling deforestation and forest fires must rely less on satellite imagery and instead start listening to the sounds of the forests, according to a report publ...

7 Jan 2019

To halt deforestation, researchers say we must listen to the forests

News / Corporate Responsibility

WeWork goes meat-free 'to leave a better world'

...carbon dioxide emissions, and more than 15 million animals by 2023. The company is running a festival-style summer camp in England over three days in August, inviting thousands of international staff ...

20 Jul 2018

WeWork goes meat-free 'to leave a better world'

News / Carbon & Climate

Three outlandish ideas to cool the planet

Climate change is a big, ugly, unwieldy problem, and it’s getting worse by the day. Emissions are rising. Ice is melting, and virtually no one is taking the carbon crisis as seriously as the issue dem...

19 Mar 2018

Three outlandish ideas to cool the planet

Press Releases / Sime Darby Plantation Berhad

Sime Darby Plantation strengthens policy on suppliers who violate no-deforestation commitments

...Carbon Stock forest and large animal habitats Satellite maps which show any evidence of deforestation on the ground How to get in touch to alert us if they identify issues on the ground – so w...

5 Jul 2019

Sime Darby Plantation strengthens policy on suppliers who violate no-deforestation commitments

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Meet RoboFly, the mechanical insect that could fly climate-saving missions

...carbon dioxide that results from burning carbon-based fuel. My hope is that creating a technology that makes it convenient to find leaks will help them be patched up.” The scenario would work like thi...

1 Jun 2018

Meet RoboFly, the mechanical insect that could fly climate-saving missions

News / Carbon & Climate

Twenty per cent of US carbon emissions come from fossil fuel exploration on public land

...carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year to between 1.16 billion and 1.13 billion tons CO2e per year by 2025 to be in-line with economy-wide reductions needed to meet that goal,” the authors write. “...

14 Feb 2018

Twenty per cent of US carbon emissions come from fossil fuel exploration on public land

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