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Green Climate Fund needs political push to solve woes - UN climate chief

The Green Climate Fund, set up to channel billions of dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change, must operate more efficiently, with greater political attention needed to make that happ...

3 Aug 2018

Green Climate Fund needs political push to solve woes - UN climate chief

News / Waste

Lego follows the green brick road to combat plastic waste

Danish toymaker Lego will start making several of its products from plant-based plastic this year in a bid to tackle waste and environmental damage. The family-owned maker of colourful plastic bricks ...

5 Mar 2018

Lego follows the green brick road to combat plastic waste

News / Cities

After warding off mass tourism, Hong Kong's last fishing village faces climate threats

Sitting among his fridge, TV set and stacks of bowls, Ng Kei-hung sat outside the family home in Hong Kong's Tai O village as he waited for his furniture to dry out after a recent flood. With houses o...

25 Oct 2018

After warding off mass tourism, Hong Kong's last fishing village faces climate threats

News / Food & Agriculture

World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause

World hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report. The total number of people who face chronic food deprivation has increased by 15 mill...

25 Oct 2018

World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The roadmap to decarbonisation won’t go far without land

...carbonised (reduce emissions) and recarbonised (pull carbon out of the atmosphere and back into forests and landscapes) for a twofold gain. But progress in sustainable land use has remained stagnant. ...

5 Apr 2017

The roadmap to decarbonisation won’t go far without land

Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Environment and Water resources, announcing 2019 as Year Towards Zero Waste on 12 January

Opinion / Waste

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

...carbon dioxide. Incineration plants also produce pollutants more toxic than the plastic waste they supposedly make disappear. This is why about half of the cost of an incineration plant goes into poll...

29 Jan 2019

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Carbon management: the next Copernican mindset shift?

...carbon productivity” was defined as the amount of GDP produced per unit of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. The Consortium is building on this concept, using the natural carbon cycle as a...

11 Apr 2017

Carbon management: the next Copernican mindset shift?

Press Releases / Gold Standard

New standard launched to accelerate and measure progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and climate targets

...carbon mitigation – for example by providing access to clean energy and water, creating jobs, improving health or protecting natural habitats – providing those who run or fund projects wit...

12 Jul 2017

New standard launched to accelerate and measure progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and climate targets

Opinion / Policy & Finance

4 signs to watch at COP23

...carbon transition in ways that are economically and technically manageable given the options we have today. COP 23 must continue to strengthen an international climate regime that sends the right mark...

2 Nov 2017

4 signs to watch at COP23

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What the UNEP FI has achieved in 25 years

...carbonization Coalition”, major steps have been taken by 29 major institutions to reduce carbon exposure of their US$600 billion assets under management. Other important milestones include the develop...

17 Oct 2017

What the UNEP FI has achieved in 25 years

In a rousing keynote address during the Singapore International Water Week’s Water Leaders Summit, former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called for more global partnerships to tackle the world’s water problems.

News / Water

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

...carbon dioxide emissions per year, equivalent to taking 42,500 cars off the country’s roads. Construction for the Tuas Nexus will start in 2019 and be completed in phases from 2023. PUB is test-beddi...

13 Aug 2018

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

News / Carbon & Climate

Rain and heat extremes set to grow

The big heat is on the way: over 50 per cent of Europe, and across more than a quarter of east Asia, the probability of record-breaking heat extremes will increase fivefold. Over more than 35 per cent...

2 Mar 2018

Rain and heat extremes set to grow

News / Carbon & Climate

Consensus eludes climate talks over finance and transparency

The Paris Agreement will not come into effect on schedule in 2020 if negotiators continue bickering the way they have done during the first week of the December 2-14 UN climate summit in Katowice, Pol...

12 Dec 2018

Consensus eludes climate talks over finance and transparency

News / Energy

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

...Carbon Brief took an in-depth look at how the IEA’s forecasts had have been revised upwards over the past four years. Carbon Brief has updated the chart below, which compares IEA forecasts versus actu...

6 Oct 2017

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

Opinion / Energy

Boosting renewable energy bankability in Southeast Asia

...carbon economy—the most significant challenge is to manage risks that include the high cost of capital. This means that investors need to be able to accurately identify the risks to a project, adopt s...

8 Dec 2017

Boosting renewable energy bankability in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Forests are key to resilient growth and climate justice

...carbon infrastructure and forests and land use. In fact, new research from The Nature Conservancy shows that the forest and land-use sector can deliver 37 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions redu...

16 Nov 2017

Forests are key to resilient growth and climate justice

Women and children displaced by floods in Pakistan queue for water.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The coming wave of climate displacement

Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could fundamentally alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugee...

28 May 2018

The coming wave of climate displacement

News / Carbon & Climate

A new dimension to marine restoration

The local fishermen looked on skeptically. From the deck of a small motorboat, scuba divers grabbed odd chunks of ceramic – which could be described as rocky brains stuck on stumpy stilts – and plunge...

28 Aug 2018

A new dimension to marine restoration

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

Dinesh de Alwis has lived all his life in Ratmalana, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. When he was young, he remembers, he would rush outside every day at 4 p.m., to play with friends after sch...

30 Jul 2018

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

News / Food & Agriculture

UN talks plant seed for greener, more climate-savvy agriculture

...carbon in the ground, improved ways of managing livestock, and how the impact of climate change on farming could affect food production. Gambian negotiator Sidat Yaffa said the decision meant his West...

16 Nov 2017

UN talks plant seed for greener, more climate-savvy agriculture

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