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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Bolster safeguards through civil society to protect the environment

...carbon emitters, are still trying to address weak enforcement of existing environmental laws and regulations. Whether to implement one or the other is a constant tug of war. For MDBs, national safegua...

8 Jun 2017

Bolster safeguards through civil society to protect the environment

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change could increase intensity of dust storms in India, experts say

India could witness an increase in the severity and frequency of dust storms and thunderstorms due to rising global temperatures, experts say. “[The] intensity of sandstorms is increasing across the w...

17 May 2018

Climate change could increase intensity of dust storms in India, experts say

News / Waste

Turn waste into climate-friendly resource

...carbon dioxide, and a large amount of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Jointly, these two gases are known in industry as synthesis gas, which is the basic building material from which virtually every org...

11 Apr 2017

Turn waste into climate-friendly resource

News / Carbon & Climate

Aviation industry plans to curb emissions

...carbon offsets − the system whereby airlines will plant forests or support other methods of capturing carbon or reducing emissions, such as by helping financially to introduce renewables electricity p...

10 Oct 2016

Aviation industry plans to curb emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Risk of ‘megafires’ to increase as climate warms

...Carbon Brief. ‘Game changer’ The study uses satellite data collected by imaging instruments aboard two NASA satellites, Terra and Aqua. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, or “MODIS”, was a...

7 Feb 2017

Risk of ‘megafires’ to increase as climate warms

News / Food & Agriculture

Certification is no ‘silver bullet’ to stop deforestation

...carbon footprint. But there is a lot of work to do, conceded Gunneberg. Only around 10 per cent of the world’s forests are certified as sustainably managed, and 70 per cent of the world’s certified a...

11 Jul 2017

Certification is no ‘silver bullet’ to stop deforestation

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

...carbon-rich peatland in Indonesia and Malaysia. The palm oil industry was largely blamed for the Indonesian forest fires of 2015 that engulfed Southeast Asia in toxic air pollution, which led Indonesi...

26 May 2017

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

News / Energy

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

A sharp rise in renewable energy projects around the world over the last decade has been accompanied by an increase in human rights abuses perpetrated by renewables companies and their affiliates, a r...

3 May 2017

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

News / Carbon & Climate

Zika virus outbreak ‘fuelled by’ El Niño and climate change

...Carbon Brief: “The minimum requirement for a vector-borne disease outbreak is the presence of competent mosquito vectors (Aedes mosquitoes), the presence of the pathogen (Zika is believed to have ente...

20 Dec 2016

Zika virus outbreak ‘fuelled by’ El Niño and climate change

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change

While carbon pollution gets all the headlines for its role in climate change, nitrogen pollution is arguably a more challenging problem. Somehow we need to grow more food to feed an expanding populati...

5 Dec 2016

Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change

Opinion / Energy

Why can't Australia break up with coal?

From the UK and China to Denmark, Chile and India, an inexorable global rush to move from polluting coal is under way. And it’s not just climate change and the Paris agreement that are the catalyst. R...

22 Feb 2018

Why can't Australia break up with coal?

News / Policy & Finance

Australia's $60 million plan to save the Great Barrier Reef dismissed as 'meaningless'

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday announced A$60 million in funding for an 18-month programme to help restore the health of the ailing Great Barrier Reef, but conservation and clima...

24 Jan 2018

Australia's $60 million plan to save the Great Barrier Reef dismissed as 'meaningless'

News / Food & Agriculture

New UN initiative aims to save lives and cut climate change by protecting peatlands

...carbon than tropical forests. If global temperatures continue to rise, this could lead to thawing permafrost, switching boreal and Arctic peatlands from carbon sinks to sources, resulting in huge amou...

18 Nov 2016

New UN initiative aims to save lives and cut climate change by protecting peatlands

News / Policy & Finance

Environment and politics in Bhutan’s elections

Bhutan is in the final phase of choosing its third democratically elected government, with elections due on October 18. Since preserving the environment has been a critical part of the country’s uniqu...

15 Oct 2018

Environment and politics in Bhutan’s elections

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News / Carbon & Climate

Climate trauma: The invisible cost of climate change

...carbon emissions, and a ranger in the Glacier National Park who has witnessed rapid ice melt. Orta-Rivera works as Project Associate for the San Juan Bay Estuary Program of AmeriCorps Vista, a US fede...

3 Nov 2017

Climate trauma: The invisible cost of climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Radishes give a taster of peatland benefits

...carbon to oxidise and release CO2 into the atmosphere. The senior author of the study, Dr Donatella Zona, research fellow and lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant S...

21 Feb 2017

Radishes give a taster of peatland benefits

Opinion / Cities

Planet trumps project in precinct design

...carbon footprint. But the reality is, these pockets of progressiveness are still rare. Even if fantastic innovations are remodelling the neighbourhood, rarely do they ‘talk’ to the core components of ...

29 Sep 2017

Planet trumps project in precinct design

Press Releases / Ashden

Trail blazing Asian organisations shortlisted for 2017 Ashden Awards

...carbon emissions, and empowering women to become entrepreneurs by training them to own a business and manage a sales force. GPS Renewables is a waste-to-energy technology company based in Bangalore, ...

15 Mar 2017

Trail blazing Asian organisations shortlisted for 2017 Ashden Awards

Dr Andrew Steer talking at Asia Environment Lecture at National University of Singapore

News / Carbon & Climate

‘The Paris Agreement is not enough’: 10 lessons from WRI CEO Andrew Steer

...carbon low efficiency economy to tomorrow's low carbon high efficiency economy without losing economic growth? Yes, Steer said. But will the transition be too expensive? Even after building the renewa...

16 Dec 2016

‘The Paris Agreement is not enough’: 10 lessons from WRI CEO Andrew Steer

News / Carbon & Climate

By air, land and sea, global warming rises

Global warming is real, and it’s happening now. Within hours of the announcement by scientists in the US that 2017 was at least the third warmest year recorded, if not the second, over the Earth’s lan...

22 Jan 2018

By air, land and sea, global warming rises

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