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Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns

...carbon sinks. FAO has been supporting national programmes for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The meeting made clear that more upfront support is essential to increase far...

26 Aug 2017

Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns

News / Energy

UK wind power can help meet peak winter demand, study says

...Carbon Brief, but due to the variability of wind power, energy suppliers would still need to be able to call on other sources of electricity to help meet demand. ‘Seemingly helpful relationship’ Wind ...

19 Jun 2017

UK wind power can help meet peak winter demand, study says

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Stick with the program – corporate climate activism in the US

...carbonise. But a recent trend of corporate climate activism has shown that, beyond the moral and diplomatic implications of withdrawal, there is a compelling business case for staying in the agreement...

19 May 2017

Stick with the program – corporate climate activism in the US

News / Transport

India has a better option than electric cars

...carbon emissions is debatable. The first two large plants have an ‘availability’ of only 19 to 20 per cent, in other words they can only be run for about 1,700 hours a year, or less than five hours a ...

1 Jun 2017

India has a better option than electric cars

News / Water

Ocean oxygen depletion could happen again

...carbon had entered the oceans, to contribute rapidly to an oxygen crisis. “To date, there haven’t been quantitative tools available to scientists that are capable of accurately measuring the rate at w...

14 Aug 2017

Ocean oxygen depletion could happen again

A collector sifts through plastic waste in Indonesia

Opinion / Manufacturing

Seaweed, Indonesia's answer to the global plastic crisis

The impacts of global plastic use have reached an alarming level. Based on the latest data, 9 billion tonnes of plastics have been produced since the 1950s, creating 7 billion tonnes of waste. Plastic...

8 Jun 2018

Seaweed, Indonesia's answer to the global plastic crisis

News / Water

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

For 75-year-old Tsering Angdo, today’s Ladakh is entirely different from the world of his childhood in the cold Himalayan desert. Back then, he and everyone he knew would take water supply for granted...

2 Aug 2018

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

Press Releases / Akzo Nobel

$3 billion of fuel and 32 million tonnes of CO2 saved by marine industry

...carbon credits scheme, which financially rewards operators for generating less CO2 emissions. The ship owners are awarded one carbon credit for each ton of CO2 saved. This effectively rewards owners ...

24 Mar 2017

$3 billion of fuel and 32 million tonnes of CO2 saved by marine industry

Local villagers float past a pile of illegally logged trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Logging is claiming the last of Indonesia's forests

Indonesia is down to its last tropical seasonal forests—and they’re entirely unprotected. The forests are found in the Tanimbar archipelago in Maluku Province, due directly north of Darwin, Australia,...

27 Aug 2018

Logging is claiming the last of Indonesia's forests

Opinion / Cities

Kerala’s monsoon: Lessons from recent floods in India

Media call it the worst flood of the century in the region. After more than two weeks of relentless rain, Kerala, a state at the southern tip of India, known internationally for its scenic green lands...

27 Aug 2018

Kerala’s monsoon: Lessons from recent floods in India

News / Carbon & Climate

Briefing from Bonn: 3 reasons why climate talks are stalling

As the second week of talks at the Bonn Climate Change Conference gets underway, some 200 country delegates remain far from agreeing on a rulebook to implement the Paris Agreement, the historic accord...

8 May 2018

Briefing from Bonn: 3 reasons why climate talks are stalling

Press Releases / The Andaman, a Luxury Collection Resort, Langkawi

Convene, converse, conserve: Green meetings for a green future

...carbon footprint. However, for delegates wishing to play a bigger role in helping the environment, the resort offers a range of sustainable packages such as sustainable meeting, coral Team building an...

6 Jun 2018

Convene, converse, conserve: Green meetings for a green future

News / Transport

Malaysia's clean transport revolution shines at Expo 2017

...carbon footprint by doing so. In the Asia Pacific region, Malaysia ranked second among 11 countries in terms of percentage of households owning cars, registering a high 82 per cent ownership, reported...

11 Aug 2017

Malaysia's clean transport revolution shines at Expo 2017

Women in China sort through waste plastics to be sent for recycling.

News / Waste

China’s waste ban 'an opportunity for innovation'

...carbon tax on plastic production could solve the problem of having to deal with waste in the first place. On the other hand Jens Moller, consultant of the waste-to-energy division at Danish engineeri...

25 Oct 2017

China’s waste ban 'an opportunity for innovation'

News / Carbon & Climate

Is northern India better prepared for air pollution this winter?

Winter in north India is almost here, and social media is already buzzing with pictures of crop residue burning in the country’s northern states. Over the last few years, the national capital, New Del...

2 Nov 2018

Is northern India better prepared for air pollution this winter?

News / Transport

Shipping pollution hotspots mapped with real-time data

...carbon dioxide emissions covered by the study. Part of the large concentration of shipping emissions in the region is explained by the rapid economic growth of countries in the Association of Southeas...

31 Aug 2017

Shipping pollution hotspots mapped with real-time data

Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh

Opinion / Manufacturing

Empowering Bangladesh’s female garment workers

For four decades, the garment industry has powered Bangladesh’s economy and put more people to work than any other sector. Women in particular have benefited from this hiring boom, and today, a majori...

4 May 2018

Empowering Bangladesh’s female garment workers

Press Releases / BERNAMA Media Relations and Event Management (MREM)

MetLife is first US insurer to achieve carbon neutrality

...carbon neutrality, becoming the first US-based insurer to do so. MetLife achieved carbon neutrality by integrating sustainability and energy efficiency best practices across the company’s globa...

27 Feb 2017

MetLife is first US insurer to achieve carbon neutrality

News / Policy & Finance

Is Indonesia’s ambitious peat restoration initiative severely underfunded?

...carbon dioxide and for their biodiversity. In Indonesia, peatlands in Sumatra are home to critically endangered species such as orangutans, rhinos and tigers. “Restoring peat will, therefore, be criti...

3 Apr 2018

Is Indonesia’s ambitious peat restoration initiative severely underfunded?

News / Cities

Smoke to ink? Indian inventors try a novel approach to tame air pollution

As the pre-monsoon summer heat takes hold in New Delhi, two things are as inevitable as 40-degree-Celsius days: power cuts and air pollution from the diesel generators that then kick in. But a team of...

3 May 2018

Smoke to ink? Indian inventors try a novel approach to tame air pollution

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