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Do Filipinos dream of electric jeepneys?

Basahin sa tagalog [Editor's note, 9 March 2023]: Read our latest analysis on ongoing industrial action against government plans to phase out traditional jeepneys. A fleet of electric vehicles cre...

7 Aug 2019

Do Filipinos dream of electric jeepneys?

News / Carbon & Climate

World’s oceans losing oxygen as a result of global warming and pollution

...carbon dioxide, and toxic hydrogen sulfide. While some animals can thrive in these dead zones, biodiversity suffers as a whole. Oxygen depletion in the world’s waters would affect not only marine ecos...

11 Jan 2018

World’s oceans losing oxygen as a result of global warming and pollution

News / Corporate Responsibility

Chief sustainability officers: Fighting the good fight

...carbon tax from 2019 onwards, CDL was well prepared. This is because it has been producing sustainability reports for close to a decade now and already has targets to reduce the intensity of its carbo...

29 Nov 2017

Chief sustainability officers: Fighting the good fight

Ramon Grimaldo of Tanggol Kalikasan reiterates the harmful effects that coal plants pose on the environment, particularly to the ocean and the creatures living in it.

News / Energy

How a small parish is leading the fight against coal in the Philippines

...carbon-intensive fossil fuel and accounts for 43 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The Philippines, as one of the countries that ratified the Paris Agreement, has vowed to reduce its emissi...

13 Jul 2018

How a small parish is leading the fight against coal in the Philippines

Opinion / Cities

Planning better cities—why inclusiveness matters for people and the environment

...carbon dioxide emissions originate in metropolitan areas. Statistics like these should give us pause: Are cities really the best way to organise human life? They can be, but only with significant adju...

31 Oct 2017

Planning better cities—why inclusiveness matters for people and the environment

News / Food & Agriculture

Meat that's not meat: The next big opportunity for food

...carbon footprint, contribution to antibiotic resistance, and food safety scandals. As a result, the practice is incompatible with many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—the developm...

19 Feb 2018

Meat that's not meat: The next big opportunity for food

News / Energy

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in pristine Western Australia country

...carbon deposits. Therefore, it is no surprise that the most contentious environmental debate currently facing the Kimberley involves what lies beneath its red soil. The region sits on top of the Canni...

22 Nov 2018

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in pristine Western Australia country

News / Carbon & Climate

More investors will spurn fossil fuels

...carbon economy.” This story was published with permission from Climate News Network.

1 Aug 2017

More investors will spurn fossil fuels

Opinion / Cities

What real action on climate change looks like

...carbon emissions: our aging buildings. Large buildings in our city will be required to meet a strict fossil fuel use target by 2030. The new rules will force our dirtiest 14,500 buildings to update bo...

28 Sep 2017

What real action on climate change looks like

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change

...carbon dioxide - which is linked to climate change and all of the associated disastrous effects - they store that carbon; but when forests are destroyed, that carbon is re-released back into the envir...

21 Jun 2017

Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change

News / Policy & Finance

UN agency seeks to marry 'social good and profit making'

A United Nations body is offering $40,000 for the best designed affordable housing for low-income workers at an industrial zone in Cambodia's capital, as part of its strategy to encourage investment i...

24 May 2018

UN agency seeks to marry 'social good and profit making'

News / Corporate Responsibility

Why sustainability is a risk issue for businesses

If companies in the Philippines want to survive in the decades ahead, they must look at risk through the lens of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, said business leaders at a recent s...

26 Sep 2018

Why sustainability is a risk issue for businesses

News / Food & Agriculture

Do smallholders hold the key to sustainable palm oil?

Palm oil is on a lot of people’s minds. With the world waking up to climate change and the media covering the social and environmental ills prevalent in the industry in greater depth, public awareness...

26 Jun 2019

Do smallholders hold the key to sustainable palm oil?

News / Cities

Washington sets example at top of sustainable city ladder

...carbon emissions by almost a third, to 11.9 tonnes per capita. Water consumption fell by more than 13 percent in the past five years. And today the city recycles about half of its waste - more than do...

4 Jan 2018

Washington sets example at top of sustainable city ladder

what does it take to phase out fossil fuels?

News / Energy

Science splits ranks over fossil fuel phase-out

...carbon capture and storage (CCS) as the realistic answer to the need to drastically reduce a nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. And the other group thinks the US can be powered by wind turbines, hydro...

29 Jun 2017

Science splits ranks over fossil fuel phase-out

News / Food & Agriculture

Shift to biogas helps revive forests

...carbon dioxide emissions in South Asia and East Africa. In 2011, two-thirds of rural households in India used fuelwood for cooking, which has also been linked to increased risk of respiratory diseases...

11 Aug 2017

Shift to biogas helps revive forests

News / Carbon & Climate

Ex-UN climate chief sees climate action "explosion" in coming decade

...carbon emissions are set to rise 2 per cent this year to a new record, dashing hopes global emissions had already peaked. Calling herself a "stubborn optimist", Figueres said the Nov. 6-17 climate tal...

20 Nov 2017

Ex-UN climate chief sees climate action "explosion" in coming decade

Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

News / Energy

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

...carbon-intensive nature of coal energy. Burning coal in these countries would also kill 70,000 people a year pre-maturely from air pollution, according to report by Greenpeace and Harvard University ...

14 Feb 2018

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is 'collective suicide' say experts

News / Water

Water scarcity threat to India and South Africa

...carbon emissions by 2030. In Africa the dangers of water scarcity for one of the continent’s best-known cities, Cape Town, are imminent and, some believe, almost apocalyptic. The city faces the prospe...

24 Jan 2018

Water scarcity threat to India and South Africa

News / Carbon & Climate

Australian business is waking up to climate risks

...carbon emissions. Strategies to do so could include passing energy efficiency-related regulations or implementing a carbon price, as Singapore has recently announced it will do. Similarly, Wright not...

27 Jun 2017

Australian business is waking up to climate risks

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