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The women of Tongaradha village in Bangladesh

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

My village, Tajpur, in the Lalmonirhat district of northern Bangladesh is very green and beautiful. It sits beside the river Tista and most of our community members work in agriculture. The area is pr...

18 Oct 2018

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate disasters will hit women hardest, says 'Handmaid's Tale' author

Women will suffer most from the devastation of climate change, as lawlessness triggered by disasters and food shortages make them vulnerable to rape and other violence, acclaimed dystopian novelist Ma...

6 Jun 2018

Climate disasters will hit women hardest, says 'Handmaid's Tale' author

Tacloban city in the Philippines after the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013

Opinion / Cities

As more super storms affect Asia, we must typhoon-proof our cities

As Super Typhoon Mangkhut nears the Philippines and Hong Kong, it’s clear that the world is witnessing an increase in the force and frequency of typhoons, especially in Asia. Typhoon Jebi, the stron...

15 Sep 2018

As more super storms affect Asia, we must typhoon-proof our cities

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Just signing the Paris Agreement is not enough

...carbon footprint of our food? How do we improve urgently needed access to energy while reducing the carbon intensity of the energy system? How can the possibilities of economic growth in countries tha...

7 Nov 2017

Just signing the Paris Agreement is not enough

News / Waste

Bunch of old bananas or building materials of the future?

...carbon emissions. The global construction industry is one the world's largest users of raw materials, with cement production alone responsible for an estimated 5 percent of carbon emissions, more than...

16 Oct 2017

Bunch of old bananas or building materials of the future?

News / Policy & Finance

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as budget remains in limbo

...Carbon Observatory-3 mission; and the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder mission. Trump’s plan is to eliminate these projects entirely and instead focus “the Nation’s ef...

15 Jan 2018

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as budget remains in limbo

News / Transport

China marries maritime ambitions with environmental protection

...Carbon emissions rising Ships accounted for about 3 per cent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from 2007 and 2012, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations...

24 Oct 2017

China marries maritime ambitions with environmental protection

News / Policy & Finance

At Asian forum, UN chief calls for more equitable globalisation, urgent action on climate change

“I am deeply convinced that globalisation is irreversible,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told an Asian forum that brought political, business and civil society leaders together in the souther...

16 Apr 2018

At Asian forum, UN chief calls for more equitable globalisation, urgent action on climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

COP 23: On the road to somewhere

...carbon pricing discussion, currently considered the purview of the European Union. India and China led the developing countries’ position insisting that a stock-take of actions before 2020 be done, pu...

27 Nov 2017

COP 23: On the road to somewhere

Wind turbines on a solar farm in Ningxia Province in Northern China

Opinion / Energy

The risks of a global supergrid

...carbon electricity around the world. Even the UN secretary general praised it as a means of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Not the first proposal The idea of a transnational grid has be...

24 Jul 2018

The risks of a global supergrid

News / Carbon & Climate

Huge vegetation change could affect Earth

The planet’s greenery—prairie grasslands, riverine swamps, Sahel drylands, European woodlands, tropical rainforest and Alpine meadows—could be about to be overtaken by a huge vegetation change as the ...

10 Sep 2018

Huge vegetation change could affect Earth

News / Carbon & Climate

In Indonesia, an earthquake leaves devastation on land and under the sea

Few people knew about the luscious coral off Palu, in Indonesia’s Central Sulwaesi province, before an earthquake turned it into an underwater wasteland. “You didn’t even need to go to Raja Ampat to s...

10 Apr 2019

In Indonesia, an earthquake leaves devastation on land and under the sea

News / Policy & Finance

Climate finance failing on forest protection

...carbon trapped by the world's tropical forests, equivalent to 250 times the amount of CO2 produced by global air travel in 2015. Mina Setra, deputy secretary-general of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance...

6 Nov 2017

Climate finance failing on forest protection

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How development banks can better support the Paris Agreement

...carbonise by mid-century. There are various tools, including GHG emissions targets and exclusion of GHG-emitting investment (e.g. based on country-specific decarbonisation pathways), that MDBs can use...

6 Dec 2018

How development banks can better support the Paris Agreement

News / Energy

Trump's 'stupid' solar tax won't hurt Asian firms but will harm US jobs, say experts

...carbon emissions will now be reduced at a slower rate, he said. The tariff is the latest measure from the Trump administration to hamstring the global movement to fight climate change by boosting the ...

24 Jan 2018

Trump's 'stupid' solar tax won't hurt Asian firms but will harm US jobs, say experts

News / Carbon & Climate

Tracing the safeguards against illegal logging in Vietnam

An agreement on legally-sourced timber imports from Vietnam to the EU that was finally signed in October is now being held up against the reality on the ground in the Southeast Asian country. The EU’s...

5 Dec 2018

Tracing the safeguards against illegal logging in Vietnam

Opinion / Cities

Building sea walls is a small bandaid on a gaping wound

The Kingscliff seawall, in the Tweed Shire in northern New South Wales, is an engineering marvel. It is 300 metres long and 6 metres deep, with a projected cost of between A$3 million and A$5 million....

8 Oct 2018

Building sea walls is a small bandaid on a gaping wound

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising sea levels come at steeper cost

...carbon emissions into the atmosphere now will increase sea level rise for the next three centuries. This warning is based on computer models of global warming and sea level rise—but a second study bas...

7 Mar 2018

Rising sea levels come at steeper cost

News / Food & Agriculture

Why is Asia so food insecure?

One in nine people around the world are hungry—a total of 821 million people worldwide. But global food security is actually improving, with over 70 per cent of countries strengthening their scores in...

5 Nov 2018

Why is Asia so food insecure?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate leadership collapse leaves UN chief with a daunting task

Patricia Espinosa must find a delicate balance at this year’s major climate summit. As head of the UN’s climate change secretariat, she’s supposed to quietly mediate the contentious talks over global ...

3 Dec 2018

Climate leadership collapse leaves UN chief with a daunting task

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