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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

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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

News / Cities

London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi

For Londoners approaching the mellowness of old age, today may bring back some poignant memories: the lethal great smog of London blanketed the UK capital exactly 65 years ago, bringing death to thous...

8 Dec 2017

London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi

News / Energy

India’s planned coal plants could ‘single-handedly jeopardise’ 1.5C target

...Carbon Brief has suggested India’s emissions could almost double to around 6.5bn tonnes of CO2 equivalent (GtCO2e) in 2030. The new analysis extends the economy-wide carbon intensity target to the pow...

27 Apr 2017

India’s planned coal plants could ‘single-handedly jeopardise’ 1.5C target

News / Waste

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

Cutting plastic bag use, reducing plastic packaging and redesigning products for recyclability have minimal impact in reducing the plastic waste that enters Southeast Asia's seas. That was the conclus...

5 Oct 2018

Plastic bans—the least effective way to solve Southeast Asia's plastic pollution problem, food industry study finds

News / Corporate Responsibility

Greening to greenbacks: How four Asian firms are protecting planet for profit

...carbon neutral, with a positive water balance, to send zero waste to landfill, and to reduce its energy consumption while upping its use of renewables. It has been progressively reducing the amount of...

27 Mar 2018

Greening to greenbacks: How four Asian firms are protecting planet for profit

Videos / Energy

Denmark’s biggest energy company turns its back on fossil fuels

...carbon emissions by 96 per cent and will have gone from being one of Europe’s most coal-intensive utilities to being one of the continent's greenest. DONG Energy chief executive Henrik Poulsen said th...

10 Oct 2017

Denmark’s biggest energy company turns its back on fossil fuels

News / Food & Agriculture

At '5 minutes to midnight', rights group calls time on climate change

Amnesty International's new chief, Kumi Naidoo, has little patience for U.N. climate change talks that have made slow progress for decades but left the world heading for disaster. "The return on inves...

6 Sep 2018

At '5 minutes to midnight', rights group calls time on climate change

News / Waste

80% of Singapore consumers ready to ditch plastic straws

Food and beverage outlets that offer alternatives to plastic straws get the thumbs up from the majority of Singaporean consumers, according to a recent report on the city-state’s straw consumption hab...

6 Jun 2018

80% of Singapore consumers ready to ditch plastic straws

News / Energy

Seaweed, the great green hope?

...carbon-rich compounds needed for to make the biofuel fast enough. There have also been misunderstandings of how the algae react to their environment. Importantly, those vital carbon-rich compounds onl...

18 Aug 2017

Seaweed, the great green hope?

Videos / Carbon & Climate

This engineer is using old cell phones to stop illegal logging

...carbon from the skies and store it in their leaves and branches. When loggers cut down a tree, they eliminate a valuable carbon sink. Over time, that can add up. Deforestation contributes more to clim...

27 Jul 2017

This engineer is using old cell phones to stop illegal logging

News / Policy & Finance

NAB will no longer fund new coal projects

...carbon economy,” comes a month after fellow ‘Big Four’ institution Commonwealth Bank issued a statement that many interpreted as signalling its own coal exit—though the commitment was not as unequivoc...

15 Dec 2017

NAB will no longer fund new coal projects

Opinion / Policy & Finance

For sustainable development, put foreign direct investments on the G20 agenda

While much of the world’s attention is focused on the economic damage being wrought by US President Donald Trump’s trade wars, global trade’s twin – foreign direct investment (FDI) – has largely been ...

6 Aug 2018

For sustainable development, put foreign direct investments on the G20 agenda

News / Carbon & Climate

Water and soil muddy carbon budget thinking

...carbon. It may be able to soak up only about half as much as they thought. Carbon budget headache The carbon budget is the first and biggest headache of climate research. For the last 10,000 years or ...

13 Mar 2017

Water and soil muddy carbon budget thinking

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