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All-electric flying cars get closer to reality

The flying cars depicted in sci-fi movie Back to the future may soon become reality as aviation company, Joby Aircraft, begins pre-production on its 5-seater aircraft. But, unlike the petrol-powered D...

6 Feb 2018

All-electric flying cars get closer to reality

News / Transport

As transport shifts outpace regulators, Uber and others pledge help

More than a dozen global companies pledged on Thursday to work together on issues cities face as fast-emerging transportation technologies outstrip regulation. Fifteen technology and transportation co...

5 Feb 2018

As transport shifts outpace regulators, Uber and others pledge help

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 ways designers and engineers can start designing for climate change

...carbon and carbon neutral standards by 2030. Architecture firms in China signed the country’s equivalent, the China Accord, a national framework towards the progress to meeting the Architecture 2030 C...

1 Jun 2017

5 ways designers and engineers can start designing for climate change

Bananas from a better time in Aleppo, Syria

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why the food revolution must begin now

In 1984, I gathered the most successful musicians of the time to form a “supergroup” called Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The next year, an even larger grouping was formed for...

16 Jul 2018

Why the food revolution must begin now

News / Carbon & Climate

Companies from Chanel to Ben and Jerry’s are benefiting from the new “carbon insetting” trend

...carbon through land management That said, up through 2020, land management initiatives that reduce carbon emissions, such as carbon insetting, offer greater potential for near-term carbon mitigation t...

1 Feb 2017

Companies from Chanel to Ben and Jerry’s are benefiting from the new “carbon insetting” trend

Log barge on Musi River, OKI mill. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

Greenpeace breaks up with APP after investigation links paper firm to deforestation

Greenpeace has backed away from a landmark agreement to stop campaigning against Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Indonesia’s largest pulp and paper firm. This agreement was signed in 2013 when APP committe...

17 May 2018

Greenpeace breaks up with APP after investigation links paper firm to deforestation

News / Carbon & Climate

Pulp and paper giant challenges Indonesian government over peat protection obligation

...carbon dioxide as a result of the burning exceeded those from all U.S. economic activity. “ By invalidating the work plans which serve as a basis for RAPP’s operation, the company no longer has legal...

6 Dec 2017

Pulp and paper giant challenges Indonesian government over peat protection obligation

News / Carbon & Climate

Costa Rica drives for a new green goal: electric transport

...carbon. More than 90 per cent of people that own cars also have a garage where they could charge their electric vehicles without the need for large-scale public investment in charging stations, he sai...

6 Dec 2017

Costa Rica drives for a new green goal: electric transport

News / Policy & Finance

Climate investment incubator branches out into cloud forests, cattle ranches

...carbon from the atmosphere. And a private equity fund aims to be the first to invest in climate change adaptation technologies for developing countries. In Brazil, which has suffered a funding shortfa...

22 Sep 2017

Climate investment incubator branches out into cloud forests, cattle ranches

News / Transport

ABB and Formula E ink partnership to speed up e-mobility growth

Swiss power and automation company ABB has become the new title sponsor for electric car racing championship Formula E, a competition that also aims to accelerate the development of e-mobility technol...

16 Jan 2018

ABB and Formula E ink partnership to speed up e-mobility growth

solar powered streetlamps in Yunnan China

News / Energy

California pushes ahead for new era of US-China climate partnerships

...carbon reduction target alone.” Wealthy global tech-hub California with 39 million people would rank as the world’s sixth largest economy if it were a nation. Support for green politics is bi-partisan...

7 Jul 2017

California pushes ahead for new era of US-China climate partnerships

News / Lifestyle

From plogging to veganism: Is sustainability the new normal for consumers?

Sustainability has become an imperative for consumers. More than nine in ten (92 per cent) of consumers across four global markets—Australia, China, United Kingdom and the United States—claim to be tr...

3 Oct 2018

From plogging to veganism: Is sustainability the new normal for consumers?

News / Carbon & Climate

Media reaction: Donald Trump’s climate and energy executive order

...carbon Potentially one of the most consequential aspects of the order is its request for a “review” of the social cost of carbon, a figure that underpins many US climate regulations, as Carbon Brief e...

30 Mar 2017

Media reaction: Donald Trump’s climate and energy executive order

News / Food & Agriculture

Conserving one of the least-understood ecosystems

...carbon. Knowing where they are located helps protect them against draining for cultivation, an activity which results in the release of vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Most of Indonesia’s ...

31 May 2017

Conserving one of the least-understood ecosystems

News / Carbon & Climate

Half a degree warmer means a lot

...carbon dioxide, the result of extravagant fossil fuel use since the Industrial Revolution, has risen from around 280 parts per million to 400 ppm, and average global temperatures have risen around 1°C...

5 Jul 2017

Half a degree warmer means a lot

Opinion / Manufacturing

The greening of the miners

...carbon future. Photovoltaic cells may draw energy from the sun, but they are manufactured from cadmium, selenium, and tellurium. The same goes for wind turbines, which are fashioned from copious amoun...

14 Nov 2017

The greening of the miners

One Central Park Sydney, a very green building

Opinion / Green Buildings

A global greening: Green building certification programmes make gains

...carbon emissions in 2011 and have the potential to reduce nearly 15 times that amount (4.92 per cent) by 2030. As LEED has evolved, other certification methods have expanded green criteria even furth...

15 Aug 2017

A global greening: Green building certification programmes make gains

Cyclists on a busy bicycle lane in Vancouver, Canada

News / Cities

Building the world’s greenest city

...carbon limit is for the atmosphere, what makes the best quality water, and how many green jobs you need to be the greenest city on earth,” she added. From plans to action GCAP went into action in 2009...

19 Sep 2017

Building the world’s greenest city

News / Waste

Tinder for food: App shares leftovers for a healthier planet

...carbon dioxide. "That whole set up is clearly, absolutely bonkers and needs to be fixed," Cook told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from London. And since more than half of food waste occurs a...

4 Dec 2017

Tinder for food: App shares leftovers for a healthier planet

News / Carbon & Climate

Here's what Indonesia is doing about its deadly haze from forest and peatland fires

...carbon-dense peat bogs. But these disasters have become commonplace in Indonesia due to exploitation of peatlands. “The root cause of this crisis was forest clearance and peatland drainage at large s...

14 Aug 2017

Here's what Indonesia is doing about its deadly haze from forest and peatland fires

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