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News / Food & Agriculture

Can technology save the palm oil industry?

Widely blamed for deforestation and human rights abuses in Indonesia and Malaysia, palm oil companies have been investing heavily in technology to boost their sustainability credentials—but are these ...

13 Feb 2019

Can technology save the palm oil industry?

News / Food & Agriculture

Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?

Tofu, edamame, soy sauce —if this is what you think of when you hear the word “soy” think again. Soybean is a “hidden commodity,” and most consumers have no idea how much of the legume they eat daily....

12 Oct 2018

Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist

...carbon dioxide. Methane has a much shorter lifetime than carbon dioxide gas, and we produce a lot less of it, so there’s no escaping the fact that carbon has to go. But if our concern is how fast the ...

26 Aug 2017

I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist

News / Food & Agriculture

A less meaty Year of the Pig?

A few days before the Chinese New Year, staff at a popular Sichuanese restaurant in Beijing’s Dongcheng district were busy serving customers and taking reservations for New Year’s Eve. Meat accounted ...

11 Feb 2019

A less meaty Year of the Pig?

News / Carbon & Climate

Warming earth threatens to release huge amounts of carbon – UN agency

...carbon and then sequester it into soil, creating a vast reservoir of carbon. But when soil is disturbed or degraded, trapped carbon and other greenhouse gases resulting from decay are re-released back...

27 Mar 2017

Warming earth threatens to release huge amounts of carbon – UN agency

News / Water

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

On June 5, it drizzled for about ten minutes over most of Marathwada in India’s western state of Maharashtra. That made headlines in the local media, because it was the first time since August 17, 201...

13 Jun 2019

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

Opinion / Lifestyle

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

...carbon footprint? The typical cocoa bean from the Asia-Pacific region is bought by the local representative of a global commodity trader. It is shipped to Singapore, or directly to Indonesia, which ha...

2 Apr 2018

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solution Pte Ltd

Blue Planet announces strategic acquisition to achieve their end to end waste management vision in Asia

...carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere. Making waste sustainable “Our collaboration with Rudra is the first step towards achieving the goal of creating practical and scalable solutions to...

10 Oct 2018

Blue Planet announces strategic acquisition to achieve their end to end waste management vision in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Red Cross plans to fight disasters with fast funding

A fund launched by the Red Cross aims to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid before rather than after floods, droughts and other natural hazards hit, so as to reduce damage and trauma in some of the ...

9 May 2018

Red Cross plans to fight disasters with fast funding

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Keeping faith in forests

...carbon embodied in leaves, branches, trunks, roots, and soil. Forests are also the only technology for carbon capture and storage to date that is safe, natural, proven, and cheap. Tropical forests alo...

3 Aug 2017

Keeping faith in forests

News / Waste

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

The world's most powerful consumer goods brand is also the biggest plastic polluter. Sugary drinks giant Coca-Cola, a company valued at US$56.4 billion, emerged as by far the most common brand in audi...

9 Oct 2018

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

News / Energy

Singapore's first e-commerce marketplace for energy powers up

...carbon offsets. Singapore began liberalising its energy market in 2001, when commercial and industrial consumers who use more than 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month became eligible for 'c...

19 Jul 2017

Singapore's first e-commerce marketplace for energy powers up

News / Energy

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end, say experts

Large hydroelectric dams are not worth the environmental and societal costs, and their benefits will continue to dwindle further as the climate changes, analysts argue. Hydroelectric power accounts fo...

30 Nov 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end, say experts

News / Energy

Listening to women's voices in Vietnam's energy debate

Vietnamese activist Khanh Nguy Thi knew early on that depending on coal to meet the country's growing demand for energy would be a disaster for its people and the environment. She also knew that liste...

8 May 2018

Listening to women's voices in Vietnam's energy debate

News / Food & Agriculture

Do-good meat: Are investors only after their pound of flesh?

What do Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Leonardo DiCaprio all have in common? Aside from vast wealth and fame, all three are backing "alt- meat"—a fake meat they say has all the taste but none of the ...

1 Feb 2018

Do-good meat: Are investors only after their pound of flesh?

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

...carbon neutral biofuels. And by 2040, crude oil will no longer be an energy source. Europe will be the first continent with zero carbon emissions, and by 2050, the entire global economy will be carbo...

3 Apr 2017

Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

...carbon-rich primary forests — but not for secondary forests, defined under Indonesian law as those that have previously been logged to any extent. As a result, some parties are deliberately clearing a...

19 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, amid protests

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate change—A repressed challenge

...carbon emissions have remained virtually unchanged. However, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for around 100 years. On behalf of future generations, we should be makin...

12 Oct 2017

Climate change—A repressed challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

...carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are permitted to double, then the average global temperatures could reach 4.5°C by the century’s end, or even up to 6°C. The debate may seem entirely academic, ...

21 Jul 2017

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

Bonn Climate Change Conference in April 2013

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The one item to pay attention to at COP 23

...carbons and emissions from international flights from participating countries last year. The design and structure of the FD2018 was also until recently left unclear. The outgoing Moroccan and incoming...

27 Oct 2017

The one item to pay attention to at COP 23