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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

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising seas’ cost may be $27tn a year by 2100

The rising seas’ cost may be US$27tn a year for the world by 2100 if it fails to meet the UN’s 2ºC global warming limit by then, with sea level rise of, at its worst, almost six feet (nearly two metre...

9 Jul 2018

Rising seas’ cost may be $27tn a year by 2100

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia faces disaster from soaring temperatures if climate change unchecked - scientists

...carbon path must be a high priority because the coming decade is crucial to achieving the Paris Agreement goals, the report said. Many countries in the region still rely heavily on fossil fuels for en...

19 Jul 2017

Asia faces disaster from soaring temperatures if climate change unchecked - scientists

News / Carbon & Climate

Small global warming cuts offer huge savings

Californian scientists have worked out how to reduce global warming so as to make the world 20 trillion US dollars better off. It’s simple. Just stick to the spirit of an international agreement that ...

5 Jun 2018

Small global warming cuts offer huge savings

News / Carbon & Climate

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

At the start of August, for the second time this year, a corridor of open water developed along the north shore of Greenland, this one more than 100 kilometres (over 62 miles) wide. The ice very nearl...

23 Aug 2018

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Choosing the responsible food option? A customer a supermarket in Singapore reaches for an item. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

What's the sustainability story inside our food?

...carbon pricing as a lever to drive change. Our CEO is co-chair of the World Bank’s initiative on carbon pricing, The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, and speaks about it often all over the world. ...

24 Jul 2017

What's the sustainability story inside our food?

News / Food & Agriculture

Global warming could cause yield of sorghum crops to drop ‘substantially’

...Carbon Brief. However, the indirect impacts of temperature might actually be a larger driver of future sorghum yield declines, another scientist tells Carbon Brief. It is likely that environmental fac...

15 Aug 2017

Global warming could cause yield of sorghum crops to drop ‘substantially’

A member of the Sekonyer Community in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why strengthening land rights strengthens development

For most of the world’s poor and vulnerable people, secure property rights, including land tenure, are a rarely accessible luxury. Unless this changes, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be...

21 Aug 2018

Why strengthening land rights strengthens development

News / Food & Agriculture

Will consumer goods giants default on 2020 zero deforestation promises?

...carbon-rich and ecologically sensitive peatlands, and have not exploited workers or communities, also known as NDPE (no deforestation, peat, and exploitation) standards. “ Brands need to come clean a...

20 Mar 2018

Will consumer goods giants default on 2020 zero deforestation promises?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Climate change: Could sustainable agriculture be the silver bullet we are looking for?

...carbon dioxide levels as well as the degradation of essential ecosystem services such as clean water and fresh air which we depend on for our very survival. In effect, the current agriculture economic...

5 Oct 2017

Climate change: Could sustainable agriculture be the silver bullet we are looking for?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change causes compensation conundrum

...carbon producers’ responsibility for climate change and climate impacts can be quantified, allocated and, ultimately, litigated. Carroll Muffett, president, Center for International Environmental Law ...

26 Sep 2017

Climate change causes compensation conundrum

News / Energy

Indonesia neglects renewables in export and domestic-driven coal boon

...Carbon Project, an international consortium, projected China’s emissions in 2017 jumped by 3.5 per cent, after declining by 0.3 per cent the year before. Behind China’s renewed appetite for coal is th...

31 May 2018

Indonesia neglects renewables in export and domestic-driven coal boon

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia Pacific falling behind on two thirds of SDG targets

The Asia Pacific region is failing to meet almost two-thirds of the targets set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world's most populous region has fallen behind on 37 out...

15 May 2018

Asia Pacific falling behind on two thirds of SDG targets

News / Green Buildings

Global real estate sector breaks sustainability record

...carbon emissions, employee satisfaction, health and safety, and the supply chain. It then shares this data, as well as analytical tools to process the data, with institutional and retail investors in...

25 Sep 2017

Global real estate sector breaks sustainability record

Residents of Maizaan gaon, Dibrugarh, Assam, India using dumped soil as a road

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits?

...carbon emitted or materials consumed with no loss of well-being. This would in turn free up ecological space for many poorer countries, where an increase in resource use would contribute much more to ...

8 Feb 2018

Is it possible for everyone to live a good life within our planet’s limits?

Opinion / Cities

How the urban nexus will make your city more resource efficient

Great cities are not always practical or efficient; they can be romantic, grandiose, multi-layered and poetic places. However, in the light of climate change, population growth, resource depletion and...

17 Sep 2018

How the urban nexus will make your city more resource efficient

Podcasts / Cities

The future of cities

More people now live in urban areas than in rural ones, and this demographic shift has raised concerns on how cities will accommodate their growing numbers, provide jobs and manage its increased envir...

10 Jan 2018

The future of cities

News / Corporate Responsibility

Food packaging industry is the ‘scapegoat' of environmentalism

“Beat Plastic Pollution” was heard everywhere this year on World Environment Day, calling for consumers, businesses and government to avoid the use of plastic. Cheap and durable, plastic and its role...

18 Jul 2018

Food packaging industry is the ‘scapegoat' of environmentalism

News / Transport

Factcheck: Misleading headlines about electric car charging while boiling the kettle

...carbon electricity, if it is to meet its legally-binding carbon reduction targets. The government wants to ban sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 and for “almost all” to be zero emission by 2...

28 Aug 2017

Factcheck: Misleading headlines about electric car charging while boiling the kettle

News / Food & Agriculture

Protein risk for millions from rising CO2 emissions - study

...carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, leaving children in the worst-affected countries more vulnerable to death and disease, according to new research. Today, 76 per cent of the world's populatio...

11 Aug 2017

Protein risk for millions from rising CO2 emissions - study

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