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News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil must not get wider access to EU under Indonesia trade talks, say activists

...carbon-rich peat swamps to make way for plantations. This story was published with permission from Mongabay.com

23 Feb 2018

Palm oil must not get wider access to EU under Indonesia trade talks, say activists

Opinion / Energy

New solar cells offer you the chance to print out solar panels and stick them on your roof

Australia’s first commercial installation of printed solar cells, made using specialised semiconducting inks and printed using a conventional reel-to-reel printer, has been installed on a factory roof...

31 Aug 2018

New solar cells offer you the chance to print out solar panels and stick them on your roof

News / Policy & Finance

New research investigates spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

...carbon storage in trees, healthy watersheds, or preservation of biodiversity. Just two decades ago, PES was a rather obscure conservation strategy, but it has taken off in recent years. Whereas there ...

10 Apr 2018

New research investigates spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

News / Water

Global warming to increase water in South Asian rivers

A wetter future awaits South Asia, says a new study based on global climate change models that informed the fifth assessment report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The South Asia...

30 Aug 2018

Global warming to increase water in South Asian rivers

privileged child in a home with air purifier in china

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s indoor air pollution highlights rural-urban divide

...carbon dioxide are a serious concern, often resulting from building materials, paints, and adhesives. Yet concern over indoor air pollution has been mounting. At the time of the severe smog in 2013, t...

23 Apr 2018

China’s indoor air pollution highlights rural-urban divide

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How nature can get us 37 per cent of the way to the Paris climate target

...carbon emissions in forests, grasslands and wetlands—can provide low-cost opportunities and are often significantly more cost effective when compared to technological solutions. The world risks losing...

24 Oct 2017

How nature can get us 37 per cent of the way to the Paris climate target

News / Carbon & Climate

Expect tens of millions of internal climate migrants by 2050, says World Bank

...Carbon Brief last year, Miyuki Hino, a doctoral student at Stanford University, outlined how novel approaches to adapting to climate risks, such as “managed retreat”, may in some cases prove necessary...

20 Mar 2018

Expect tens of millions of internal climate migrants by 2050, says World Bank

Opinion / Policy & Finance

When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story

...carbon, their lobbying presence in Congress is 100 per cent opposed to any action,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, lamented in Harvard Business Review. ExxonMobil has clearly engage...

20 Jul 2018

When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story

News / Energy

1,200 megawatt Vietnam coal plant gets funding, but Standard Chartered pulls out over climate policy conflict

...carbon dioxide per unit of power as the average coal plant in Vietnam, and cause a big increase in air pollution-related deaths in the area, according to data from the journal of Environmental Science...

19 Apr 2018

1,200 megawatt Vietnam coal plant gets funding, but Standard Chartered pulls out over climate policy conflict

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

A business model for sustainability

...carbon pricing; and even the market for “green bonds” is growing exponentially. This momentum matters because financial market support will be essential in achieving the sustainable development agenda...

20 Dec 2018

A business model for sustainability

News / Carbon & Climate

UN climate summit means business

...carbon economy is not only necessary but possible. For that to happen, though, the Agreement must cut emissions far more stringently than it does yet. A UN report in October said that even fully imple...

6 Nov 2017

UN climate summit means business

Second panel at Unlocking capital for sustainability