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UN chief stresses 'mutually supportive' nature of Africa's free trade and industrialization

...carbon solutions, fostering small and medium enterprises, and forging partnerships to spur innovation and create incentives to power sustainable growth. “It will also be critical to unleash the capaci...

21 Nov 2017

UN chief stresses 'mutually supportive' nature of Africa's free trade and industrialization

News / Carbon & Climate

Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say

In just 30 years, cities around the world will face dramatically higher risks from extreme heat, coastal flooding, power blackouts and food and water shortages unless climate-changing emissions are cu...

20 Jun 2018

Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say

Opinion / Energy

Coal—the killer investment without a future

...carbon energy production and use will be crucial. Critical renewable technologies for achieving this will be solar, wind and other safe renewables sources like geothermal. Solar is booming globally, a...

9 Nov 2017

Coal—the killer investment without a future

News / Waste

Why your Valentine's Day chocolates are not sweet for the environment

...carbon dioxide when burnt, unlike the burning of fossil fuels, Tuates says. Cacao briquettes used as biofuel. Image: PHilMech Using basic machinery such as a shredder, hammer mill, mixer and a briqu...

13 Feb 2018

Why your Valentine's Day chocolates are not sweet for the environment

News / Energy

Hydrogen could see off fossil fuels

...carbon dioxide considerably. ITM Power is one of a number of potential winners at the Ashden Awards, an annual international competition that gives recognition and financial backing to energy innovati...

13 Feb 2018

Hydrogen could see off fossil fuels

Opinion / Energy

No place for new coal in Australia’s decarbonised pathway

...carbon energy sources such as renewables, coal or gas only if its with carbon capture and storage (CCS) or nuclear power. A near carbon free electricity system can then be used to decarbonise other s...

21 Mar 2017

No place for new coal in Australia’s decarbonised pathway

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

...carbon are deposited onto the ice and snow. The pollutant accumulation accelerates snowmelt, which warms ocean waters and, in turn, creates a self-reinforcing cycle of more melting. The world has an o...

3 Jul 2017

Ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

News / Cities

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

By 2012, when then-prime minister Najib Razak formally launched the River of Life project to improve water quality and restore the aesthetic virtue of the Klang River, France had already demolished ob...

13 Aug 2018

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

News / Energy

Google wants Asia to get serious about renewable energy

...carbon neutral since 2007, it wants to go a step further by cutting fossil fuels out of its energy supply altogether and becoming 100 per cent renewable-powered. This year is Google's deadline for bec...

1 Nov 2017

Google wants Asia to get serious about renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests

Dutch bank Rabobank and U.N. Environment have announced a $1 billion programme to finance new ways of farming that curb emissions, restore the land and protect forests. Agriculture produces about 24 p...

20 Oct 2017

$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests

Motorists queue for fuel at a petrol kiosk in Seminyak, Bali.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel subsidies – a harmful government expenditure

...carbon emissions. In the 1990s, the Asian share was just 15 per cent. It is rising due to a growing reliance on fossil fuels, which are the dominant source of electricity generation and industrial exp...

5 Jan 2018

Fossil fuel subsidies – a harmful government expenditure

News / Food & Agriculture

Giving new life to degraded lands in Small Island Developing States

...carbon installations above and below ground. FAO is so far working with 30 countries to produce national data, including training local teams to assess land use changes and degradation by using remote...

15 Sep 2017

Giving new life to degraded lands in Small Island Developing States

News / Policy & Finance

Negotiations start on a high seas treaty

The high seas cover two thirds of the ocean and are home to 90 per cent of marine life, but this vast expanse of water and seabed that lies beyond the national jurisdiction of any one country has no c...

6 Sep 2018

Negotiations start on a high seas treaty

News / Carbon & Climate

Half of world’s ocean to face multiple ‘climate stressors’ by 2030, study warns

...Carbon Brief: “Primary production is the base of the food web so the ultimate food source for everything in the oceans. If that food source is declining, that will obviously put stress on the marine e...

9 Mar 2017

Half of world’s ocean to face multiple ‘climate stressors’ by 2030, study warns

News / Waste

The unseen scandal of hotel food waste

...carbon emissions and cost price of the food. The data is collected and eventually sent to the hotel’s managers or chefs. “What gets measured, gets managed. That’s why there’s a reduction in food wast...

16 Oct 2017

The unseen scandal of hotel food waste

Videos / Energy

South Australia goes all out on renewables despite federal focus on coal

...carbon tax. The Renewable Energy Target has been slashed, coal is being championed, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation — the government’s “green bank” — and Australian Renewable Energy Agency ha...

16 Oct 2017

South Australia goes all out on renewables despite federal focus on coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Human actions are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

Roads, ranches, mines and cities are spilling into many of the world’s parks, reserves and wilderness sanctuaries, leaving one-third of the world’s total protected area — almost three and a half times...

18 May 2018

Human actions are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

News / Waste

Forty per cent of global e-waste comes from Asia

Humans generated a staggering 44.7 million metric tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2016 — the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers, and five per cent more than the electrical and electronic goods ...

5 Jan 2018

Forty per cent of global e-waste comes from Asia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The G20's time for climate leadership

...carbon footprint, by changing how the “social cost of carbon” is calculated. And his administration has already insisted that language about climate change be omitted from a joint statement issued by ...

24 Apr 2017

The G20's time for climate leadership

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Fighting inequality in Asia and the Pacific

Inequality is increasing in Asia and the Pacific. Our region’s remarkable economic success story belies a widening gap between rich and poor. A gap that’s trapping people in poverty and, if not tackle...

17 May 2018

Fighting inequality in Asia and the Pacific

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