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Opinion / Green Buildings

Is Green Mark the answer to greener buildings?

The built environment has traditionally been associated with environmental destruction and degradation. However, we are coming to realise that through good design, proper policy, and careful planning,...

29 Jan 2021

Is Green Mark the answer to greener buildings?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

“People living in the world's poorest nations do not concern themselves with the environment, or the latest figures on carbon emissions; rather, they wake up each day wondering if they will be able to...

2 Mar 2021

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Five ways to tell if a solution to the climate and nature crisis is genuine

To this crucial question as we emerge from the pandemic let’s remind ourselves first of three incontrovertible facts that we must take into account, then derive some principles and criteria, before ex...

1 Mar 2021

Five ways to tell if a solution to the climate and nature crisis is genuine

Do Asian consumers care how clean energy is - as long as its cheap?

News / Energy

Australia tackles its solar traffic jam

Australia's uptake of rooftop solar panels has soared in the past decade with around 20,000 households generating their own solar energy in 2010, increasing to 2.8 million households in 2021. Fuelled ...

6 Jul 2021

Australia tackles its solar traffic jam

News / Carbon & Climate

The gaps in the global deal for nature

Parts of the latest draft of the international deal to reverse the decline of nature have pleased some campaigners, but significant gaps remain. The new draft of the “Global Biodiversity Framework” wa...

28 Jul 2021

The gaps in the global deal for nature

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

News / Policy & Finance

7 trends that will shape sustainability in 2022

The prolonged coronavirus pandemic continued to force seismic shifts in public policy and company behaviour. It brought about important fixes in the financial system and altered how businesses reacted...

29 Dec 2021

7 trends that will shape sustainability in 2022

News / Water

Why isn't water top of the climate agenda?

Asia's water resources face a triple threat — climate change leading to extreme floods and droughts, clustering of cities around the major river basins, and coastal threats. Although the water risks ...

30 Jun 2021

Why isn't water top of the climate agenda?

News / Manufacturing

Sustainable revolution: biomaterials poised to render fur, skins out of fashion

In a globally interconnected world, textiles such as leather sourced from cattle, and wool sheared from sheep, have become a serious source of deforestation, other adverse land-use impacts, biodiversi...

14 Apr 2022

Sustainable revolution: biomaterials poised to render fur, skins out of fashion

News / Carbon & Climate

Post-Brexit UK – like other gas-producing nations – betting on uncommercial, unproven carbon capture and hydrogen

Having set a goal to reach zero carbon by 2050 and with its eye on hosting COP26 in November, the UK is now freed by Brexit from having to stick to European state aid rules and its environmental legis...

14 Jan 2021

Post-Brexit UK – like other gas-producing nations – betting on uncommercial, unproven carbon capture and hydrogen

News / Carbon & Climate

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were 51 per cent below 1990 levels, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. This means the UK is now halfway to meeting its target of “net-zero” emissions by ...

19 Mar 2021

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

Microplastic poses a growing concern in oceans

News / Waste

Are marine microplastics now invading the atmosphere?

Take a deep breath. The air that fills your chest and lungs is a vital mix of oxygen and nitrogen. Other things might be mingled in the air, too. For instance, small amounts of carbon monoxide, nitrog...

29 Apr 2021

Are marine microplastics now invading the atmosphere?