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New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

Li Qiang has been trading waste in Beijing for 12 years without a business license. He started the application to get one last year, but like many others in the same line of work, he’s still waiting.C...

10 Aug 2018

New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

Trashpresso in Qinghai, on the Tibetan Plateau

News / Waste

How this Taiwanese engineer is going to 'recycle all the shit out there'

...carbon footprint in things, which is the cost of the energy and chemicals and other input needed to make the material to begin with. The classic example is the electric car versus petrol or diesel car...

31 Jan 2018

How this Taiwanese engineer is going to 'recycle all the shit out there'

News / Corporate Responsibility

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands

...carbon-rich peat soil. With less than two years before their self-imposed 2020 deadlines — which in many cases have already been pushed back from earlier deadlines — the companies involved must act sw...

27 Sep 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

Last month, a blistering heat wave killed at least 60 people in Karachi, Pakistan. Across East Africa, severe flash flooding displaced hundreds of thousands, and just days into this year’s hurricane s...

18 Jun 2018

4 ways we can step up adaptation and protect vulnerable communities from climate change impact

MEWR Minister Masagos Zulkifli speaking to representatives from Subnero at the 2016 Innovation Pavilion.

News / Water

Supporting the world’s water start-ups

In some of Singapore’s reservoirs, robotic swans are discreetly collecting data such as the dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll levels, analysing and monitoring the waters’ quality, and uploading the res...

18 Jun 2018

Supporting the world’s water start-ups

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change offers huge investment opportunity - experts

Climate change should be grasped as an opportunity to attract vast capital flows into low-carbon investments, create jobs and spur economic growth, rather than viewed as a money-absorbing burden, top ...

3 May 2017

Climate change offers huge investment opportunity - experts

46 year-old former bank manager and mother of two Pornsiri Raknukul now runs her own RSPO-certified palm oil plantation in Southern Thailand. Image: RSPO

News / Food & Agriculture

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

...carbon-rich soil that needs to be drained before it can be cultivated. As the plots of land are small, farmers are reluctant to dig big ditches that will drain the soil, because they take up valuable ...

30 Jan 2018

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

News / Carbon & Climate

Companies and governments working together helps halt deforestation - report

...carbon emissions. “ Many of these companies are collaborating with subnational governments in jurisdictional, multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at achieving their shared goals of reducing deforesta...

7 Aug 2017

Companies and governments working together helps halt deforestation - report

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore toughens regulations to meet environment goals

...carbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter - to the banding criteria. Under the CEVS, banding was decided based on carbon emissions. The VES, applicable to new cars, taxis and ne...

24 Mar 2017

Singapore toughens regulations to meet environment goals

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Gender must be at the heart of climate action

...carbon development and climate change adaptation is a major transformative endeavour requiring the participation of all countries, communities and genders. While gender equality is often solely associ...

30 Aug 2017

Gender must be at the heart of climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

India tops global pollution deaths of 9 million a year - study

Pollution caused nine million deaths in 2015 - three times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined - scientists said on Thursday, calling for governments in poor countries to act. India fare...

23 Oct 2017

India tops global pollution deaths of 9 million a year - study

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Setting the rules of the game at Bonn climate change talks

...carbon global economy. Since this historic agreement is already in force, those tasked with implementing national climate action plans will urgently need to complete the rulebook by the end of 2018. U...

2 May 2017

Setting the rules of the game at Bonn climate change talks

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate threats drive migration, Indian women find opportunities

In the last inhabited villages deep in the dense mangrove forests of India's Sundarbans region, rice harvests have fallen by half in the last decade. Rising seas and stronger storms, linked to climate...

18 Oct 2018

As climate threats drive migration, Indian women find opportunities

Opinion / Waste

Four ways to manage healthcare waste sustainably

...carbon monoxide to name a few. These substances can cause higher incidence of cancer and respiratory symptoms as well as possible congenital abnormalities and hormonal defects. Efforts on healthcare ...

20 Apr 2018

Four ways to manage healthcare waste sustainably

News / Carbon & Climate

Phasing out cookstoves a “win-win” for climate and health, study shows

...carbon, or soot, stays around in the atmosphere for days to weeks, giving rise to its label as a ‘short-lived climate pollutant’, or SLCP. Aerosols’ short lifespans means they exert their biggest infl...

2 Feb 2017

Phasing out cookstoves a “win-win” for climate and health, study shows

News / Carbon & Climate

China set for top spot in carbon trading

...carbon trading scheme set to be put in place in 2017 is likely to be more than twice the size of European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), which is currently the world biggest carbon market. Ca...

5 Dec 2016

China set for top spot in carbon trading

News / Cities

Cities urged to buy up cheap land for sustainable expansion

Overcrowded cities in developing nations could tackle unmanaged urban sprawl more effectively by creating 30-year plans based on acquiring cheap land adjacent to their suburbs and developing those new...

14 Feb 2018

Cities urged to buy up cheap land for sustainable expansion

News / Water

6 ways to save the world's oceans

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they become more acidic. This phenomenon, known as ocean acidification, threatens marine ecosystems because it reduces concentrations of calcium carbonate, an essen...

8 Jun 2017

6 ways to save the world's oceans

News / Food & Agriculture

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

...carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the emissions of the European Union. The decree is an effort to curb deforestation and climate change while encouraging plantation owners to increase their prod...

10 Jul 2018

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

News / Policy & Finance

Trump hesitates over global climate deal

...carbon emissions by between 26 per cent and 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2025. “Do remember, it is not only governments who make impact and make the global agenda,” the UNFCCC executive secretary a...

20 Apr 2017

Trump hesitates over global climate deal

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