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Poor countries face $168 billion interest bill due to climate change

Poor countries could have to pay up to $168 billion more in interest over the next decade as extreme weather events brought on by climate change affect their credit ratings, a study said on Monday. Na...

3 Jul 2018

Poor countries face $168 billion interest bill due to climate change

Press Releases / 350.org East Asia

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. Right now, the annual global temperature is about 1 °C hotter than average and we are already locked into another 0.5...

10 Sep 2018

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

News / Manufacturing

Can we make batteries better for the environment?

Batteries are ubiquitous yet often ignored, humming in the background while powering appliances, smartphones, and other parts of our lives. They’re also a pivotal piece in the environmental puzzle, as...

31 Oct 2018

Can we make batteries better for the environment?

News / Carbon & Climate

UN chief turns up heat on governments to cool climate change

As the planet's population struggles with fiercer heatwaves, storms and wildfires, governments face growing pressure to step up their action to curb climate change by 2020, after a flagship speech by ...

12 Sep 2018

UN chief turns up heat on governments to cool climate change

Videos / Cities

Wanted: Million-dollar solutions for better cities

Cities are home to more than half the world’s population, and are important centres of social and economic activity. But they are today under siege from the twin threats of rapid urbanisation and clim...

11 Apr 2018

Wanted: Million-dollar solutions for better cities

News / Energy

Paint the town green: AkzoNobel powers towards net zero emissions

Dutch paint and coatings multinational AkzoNobel has taken one more step towards becoming a carbon neutral company by 2050 with its latest initiative to power all its production facilities and stores ...

13 Nov 2017

Paint the town green: AkzoNobel powers towards net zero emissions

News / Waste

US hospitals generate a ton of waste. They don’t have to.

We know climate change is bad for our health. Heat waves, drought and superstorms, all driven by rising temperatures, already are causing sickness and death. But we know much less about the carbon cos...

4 Jan 2018

US hospitals generate a ton of waste. They don’t have to.

News / Carbon & Climate

Environmental stress can be passed on through pregnancy

Climate change is a growing threat to mental health, particularly in the aftermath of severe storms, floods or wildfires, when victims can develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Now, scientists are w...

19 Feb 2019

Environmental stress can be passed on through pregnancy

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

No room for complacency on 1.5°C climate change threshold

...carbon budget” – the amount of carbon-dioxide equivalents we can emit before breaching the 1.5°C threshold – is somewhat larger than was previously thought. This finding is no reason for complacency, ...

24 Oct 2017

No room for complacency on 1.5°C climate change threshold

Research / Eco-Business

Freezing in the tropics - Asean's air-con conundrum

...carbon emissions if left unchecked, particularly in Southeast Asia where coal is a major source of energy. If Asean countries switched to energy efficient products for cooling, they can reduce electr...

28 Jan 2018

Freezing in the tropics - Asean's air-con conundrum

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change could ruin Australia's A$40 billion tourism industry

...carbon neutral in a bid to reduce their contribution to climate change, while the Ayers Rock Resort at Uluru draws 15 per cent of its energy from solar power to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. H...

12 Feb 2018

Climate change could ruin Australia's A$40 billion tourism industry

Opinion / Energy

Clean coal doesn’t merit green financing

...carbon emissions and so green finance should support upgrades to coal-fired power plants that promote cleaner burning. New coal tech still pollutes Addressing the air pollution problem is certainly a ...

7 Dec 2017

Clean coal doesn’t merit green financing

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News / Cities

Cities, regions seen as ‘essential’ to growth in emissions trading

...carbon market for office buildings is all “cap” and not much “trade”] Still, cities or metropolitan areas launching their own carbon-trading schemes remain rare today. That’s because there are only so...

5 Sep 2017

Cities, regions seen as ‘essential’ to growth in emissions trading

Videos / Carbon & Climate

As climate risks surge, flood barriers rise in Britain

Four decades ago, when storms blew in the North Sea and sent high tides surging toward London, sirens sounded in the city. "People were told not to work or sleep in basements. They used to move buses ...

7 Sep 2018

As climate risks surge, flood barriers rise in Britain

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency ‘eager to intervene’ in palm oil sector

...carbon-rich forests and peatlands are indiscriminately cleared to make way for plantations. Palm oil companies often take advantage of the lack of legal clarity over who owns land in Indonesia, seizin...

25 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency ‘eager to intervene’ in palm oil sector

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

...carbon get turned into the poison that is making our atmosphere hot, and where sloths and jaguars are pushed into ever-smaller corners of the once vast rainforest. Of course, once the forest is cleare...

2 Jul 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

News / Policy & Finance

Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes

...carbon, and processes to secure land tenure rights emerged as key issues. In order to entice large amounts of private capital investment into funds that support sustainable global landscapes, those fu...

5 Jun 2018

Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes

News / Food & Agriculture

Tackling the trade in endangered marine species

Earlier this year in Rome, scientists from around the world debated the need to control trade in the endangered shortfin mako shark. The meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation...

30 Apr 2019

Tackling the trade in endangered marine species

News / Food & Agriculture

Asia's rising appetite for meat, seafood will 'strain environment'

Asia's growing appetite for meat and seafood over the next three decades will cause huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics used in foods, researchers said on Tuesday. Rising popul...

5 Sep 2018

Asia's rising appetite for meat, seafood will 'strain environment'

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian president signs 3-year freeze on new oil palm licences

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has signed a moratorium on new licenses for oil palm plantations. The presidential instruction, signed on Sept. 19, will remain in place for no more than three years, ...

21 Sep 2018

Indonesian president signs 3-year freeze on new oil palm licences

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