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activists block loading of coal in West Java

News / Energy

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

...carbon-dense forests. As a 2015 report by NGO Fern found, this makes Indonesia’s forests the world’s most under threat due to coal. Indonesia’s continued pro-coal stance also calls into question its c...

17 May 2017

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why is business so resistant to talking about climate resilience?

“We have moved passed the point where we could debate the reality of climate change, we are now at the point where we need to ask how it will affect our daily lives, and what we can do about it.” This...

10 Apr 2018

Why is business so resistant to talking about climate resilience?

News / Food & Agriculture

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

There is no questioning the value that certification could bring to agroforestry, a sector lumbered with a range of issues from the abuse of indigenous people's rights and deforestation, to biodiversi...

9 May 2018

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

News / Policy & Finance

Innovative finance needed to find $300 billion a year for climate losses

...carbon tax, researchers say. Funding for such climate "loss and damage" aims to assist people who lose their land to sea level rise, for instance, or are forced to migrate as drought makes growing cro...

16 May 2017

Innovative finance needed to find $300 billion a year for climate losses

News / Carbon & Climate

Isolating Trump, 19 G20 members say Paris climate deal "irreversible"

...carbon emissions. “The G20 summit sends the important signal that 19 members are unified in their support of the Paris climate agreement and want to advance the implementation,” said Jörn Kalinski, he...

11 Jul 2017

Isolating Trump, 19 G20 members say Paris climate deal "irreversible"

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Can biochar make climate change a profitable business opportunity?

...carbon sink (all that carbon tied up in the trees), eliminating a key carbon “filter” (all that photosynthesis removed a lot of CO2), and now the annual burning of soy field waste contributes directly...

24 Feb 2017

Can biochar make climate change a profitable business opportunity?

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is the Paris Agreement on climate change and what does it mean for cities?

...carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time, some of the most promising low-carbon innovations are happening in cities. From efforts aimed at boosting walking, biking and transit to promoting energy ef...

4 Apr 2017

Explainer: What is the Paris Agreement on climate change and what does it mean for cities?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment

If not for the public’s generosity, the iconic Statue of Liberty might not have the solid and impressive footing she does today. In the late 1800s, government funds for the monument were exhausted. Ye...

4 Jun 2018

Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment

Opinion / None

Promoting green growth to meet global aspirations for gender equality

...carbon finance to restore and stop further degradation of peatlands across the country will ensure creation of co-benefits to local communities. Without the active participation of women in decision-m...

8 Mar 2018

Promoting green growth to meet global aspirations for gender equality

News / Carbon & Climate

Smaller farms can cope better with climate change in India, say analysts

India's small farmers are better equipped than large landowners to deal with climate change, but need more support to find innovative ways to minimise the impacts of higher temperatures, uneven rainfa...

13 Dec 2017

Smaller farms can cope better with climate change in India, say analysts

News / Policy & Finance

Ground-breaking UN-supported digital tool to enhance green finance

...carbon account, in addition to their credit and saving accounts. Ant’s 450 million users in China are now able to benchmark their carbon footprint and to earn “green energy” credits for reducing their...

23 Jan 2017

Ground-breaking UN-supported digital tool to enhance green finance

Opinion / Policy & Finance

If we want to solve complex social and environmental problems, we need to think in terms of systems

Most of us are taught, from a young age, that in order to solve a problem, we simply need to break it down to its core components and solve for x. We learn science experiments that have an aim, method...

28 Jun 2018

If we want to solve complex social and environmental problems, we need to think in terms of systems

News / Policy & Finance

At UN, over $2 billion pledged to help hurricane-affected Caribbean nations ‘build back better’

The international community mobilised over $1.3 billion in pledges and more than $1 billion in loans and debt relief to help Caribbean nations recover from the strong hurricanes that pummelled the reg...

24 Nov 2017

At UN, over $2 billion pledged to help hurricane-affected Caribbean nations ‘build back better’

News / Carbon & Climate

Warming linked to Storm Harvey devastation

...carbon management at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences, UK, says: “Flood defence plans based only on past events will become obsolete as our warming atmosphere delivers much more rai...

4 Sep 2017

Warming linked to Storm Harvey devastation

Press Releases / Akzo Nobel

AkzoNobel gets top grade on the CDP Supplier Climate A List

...Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an international not-for-profit group which accelerates action to achieve sustainable economies. The ranking places AkzoNobel in the top 3 per cent of the 4,300 compan...

3 Feb 2017

AkzoNobel gets top grade on the CDP Supplier Climate A List

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Taxing red meat may cut emissions and disease

...carbon taxes on food. In all of the scenarios we explored, taxing the carbon content of foods increased prices and reduced consumption - ultimately reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, these reduc...

24 Nov 2016

Taxing red meat may cut emissions and disease

Press Releases / Expotrade

Timber revolutionises high-rise construction

...carbon benefit of 2,563 tonnes through the use of carbon-trapping wood construction. “The big advantage is that timber has a far lower embodied carbon than steel or concrete,” says Dr Old...

3 Feb 2017

Timber revolutionises high-rise construction

News / Corporate Responsibility

Major Islamic financier singled out for forest clearing in Indonesia

...Carbon Stock Approach for all new developments. “These pre-conditions are critical for industry laggards such as TH Plantations that have, to date, failed to acknowledge the need to protect secondary ...

3 May 2018

Major Islamic financier singled out for forest clearing in Indonesia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How can we communicate all that nature does for us?

As a conservation professor I believe people need to understand why protecting nature matters to them personally. Appealing to human self-interest has generated support for conservation in Switzerland...

3 May 2018

How can we communicate all that nature does for us?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

For every item it sells, wood products manufacturer Woodchuck plants a tree. The maker of high-end custom wood products—including journals, smartphone cases and flasks—has planted 1.3 million trees ...

15 Aug 2018

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

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