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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

Women drawing rangoli on the floor in India

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How to bring about the Asian Century

...carbon growth Fourth, countries must respond to rising inequality. Technological progress, globalisation, and market deregulation have spurred economic growth, but they have also resulted in higher in...

9 May 2017

How to bring about the Asian Century

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Big Data can transform SDG performance. Here’s how.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer specific, time-bound, and quantifiable targets in sync with national development plans and priorities. However, with over 230 SDG indicators—many of whic...

25 Jun 2018

Big Data can transform SDG performance. Here’s how.

News / Carbon & Climate

Record-breaking weather in 2016 pushes world into ‘truly uncharted territory’

...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently breaking new records, the influence of human activities on the climate system has become more and more evident.” Each of the year since 2001 has seen at l...

24 Mar 2017

Record-breaking weather in 2016 pushes world into ‘truly uncharted territory’

A waterway runs through a palm oil estate owned by Golden Agri Resources. Water is critical to restoring peat forests burned in the fires of 2015

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

...carbon-rich land that is routinely drained and then burnt to clear it. The toxic fumes from burning peat have choked Indonesia and its neighbours annually for almost half a century. Another blight on...

21 Sep 2017

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

News / Manufacturing

Cement develops an appetite for C02

...carbon cycle − how carbon dioxide gets into the atmosphere and out again. Sometimes, human agency is at work, but nature takes care of it anyway – as one of the studies reveals in the case of cement,...

5 Dec 2016

Cement develops an appetite for C02

News / Carbon & Climate

China prepares to open national carbon market

...carbon allowances per year initially. This is much larger than the EU-ETS scheme, which is currently the largest carbon market, with two billion tonnes of allowances. In 2015, 80 per cent of all carb...

21 Nov 2016

China prepares to open national carbon market

News / Carbon & Climate

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Yoyon remembers being elected head of his village back in 2010, here on the southwestern coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, following a spate of arrests of his fellow villagers. Those arrested...

8 Dec 2017

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change: the case for hope

...carbon into the atmosphere, cause global famine, change rain patterns, shorten planting periods, and cause a global cool down for 25 years. “ The thought of glaciers disappearing from the Himalayas, ...

25 Apr 2017

Climate change: the case for hope

Press Releases / ENGIE

ENGIE signs agreements to advance sustainability & decarbonisation

...carbon technology solutions to meet the region’s unique energy challenges.” ENGIE, Bolloré and Senoko Energy to co-develop green mobility In the first agreement, ENGIE, energy ret...

29 Mar 2017

ENGIE signs agreements to advance sustainability & decarbonisation

Opinion / Policy & Finance

3 reasons we’re losing the climate battle, and 1 reason we’re winning the war

...carbonising as fast as a large organisation can. The result? Its stock price is in progressive atrophy and its new CEO, Isabelle Kocher, can thank the stability of France’s approach to industrial man...

9 Mar 2017

3 reasons we’re losing the climate battle, and 1 reason we’re winning the war

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

...carbon dioxide removal. It is urgent that we better understand the potential impacts of geoengineering on poor countries, and boost their voices in the growing debate about the governance of research ...

8 Jan 2018

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Opinion / Energy

China and India take different roads to green Asia’s infrastructure

...carbon reduction of 28 million tonnes per year, according to the government. Public buildings, schools, hospitals and even the high commission in London have had LED bulbs fitted, as India seeks to e...

19 Sep 2017

China and India take different roads to green Asia’s infrastructure

News / Corporate Responsibility

Big business ‘threatens planet’s future’

Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, are everywhere. They have an overwhelming influence and impact on our lives—and on the planet. They boast they are a force for good—and...

12 Feb 2018

Big business ‘threatens planet’s future’

News / Energy

Quiet revolution cuts energy consumption

...carbon emissions faster than expected. Some countries, notably Germany, have been expecting and planning for this to happen, but the UK government has been surprised by the trend. It forecast a contin...

28 Mar 2017

Quiet revolution cuts energy consumption

News / Energy

China generates energy and controversy in Argentina

...carbon projects. Just four per cent of these investments are in renewable energies, which is precisely the sector where the country is clearly lagging. “China’s main objective is to export its technol...

22 Jun 2018

China generates energy and controversy in Argentina

Press Releases / Black & Veatch

Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme represents new thinking on stormwater management

Black & Veatch has won the 2017 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Innovation and Creativity Grand Award. The award recognises the company’s role as the hydraulic designer of the recently comp...

26 Jan 2018

Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme represents new thinking on stormwater management

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Rising temperatures imperil winter sports industry

It’s hard to imagine feeling a purer joy than American snowboarder Chloe Kim as she flings herself into a 1080, but Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones who love winter sports. In the winter of 2015 ...

27 Feb 2018

Rising temperatures imperil winter sports industry

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Open letter from NGOs to Malaysia's political parties: Make sustainable development a priority

To: Presidents of all political parties in Malaysia The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 countries, including Malaysia, in September 2015 at the United Nations Summit encompass envi...

25 Jan 2018

Open letter from NGOs to Malaysia's political parties: Make sustainable development a priority

Screen Grab Patricia Espinosa Interview Feb 2017 Carbon Brief

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Patricia Espinosa on Trump, Brexit, ‘loss and damage’ and 1.5C goal

...Carbon Brief spoke with Espinosa on the sidelines of an event organised by the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE on Thursday. “ The negotiations will continue, the commi...

24 Feb 2017

Patricia Espinosa on Trump, Brexit, ‘loss and damage’ and 1.5C goal

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