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Energy storage’s day in the Singapore sun

...carbon forms of electricity, a transition accelerated by falling prices of renewable energy and commitments by governments to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement on clim...

11 May 2018

Energy storage’s day in the Singapore sun

News / Energy

China raises its low carbon ambitions in new 2020 targets

...carbonisation and low-carbon energy targets. China exceeded most of its 2015 low-carbon energy and decarbonisation targets and has made its 2020 energy and emissions targets more ambitious over time...

11 Jan 2017

China raises its low carbon ambitions in new 2020 targets

News / Carbon & Climate

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

For most of Buisalia Tevita's life, prayers and luck were all her Fijian community could rely on to protect itself from the cyclones, floods or landslides that regularly hit the islands. "During a dis...

22 Dec 2017

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate action 'a necessity and an opportunity,' says UN chief

...carbon future, and to adapt to the increasing impacts of climate change. It also aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change and calls for scaled up financia...

1 Jun 2017

Climate action 'a necessity and an opportunity,' says UN chief

News / Policy & Finance

Is nudging or policy the better way to a more sustainable society?

Got a problem with plastic pollution? Ban plastic bags. Road congestion? Introduce car-free days. Dirty streets? Fine litterbugs. Policymakers might think that the only way to encourage citizens to ...

27 Sep 2017

Is nudging or policy the better way to a more sustainable society?

News / Carbon & Climate

Fairer world may mean more modest dreams

A sustainable planet may not be attainable, and a fairer world may require us to temper our dreams. Justice, equity, sanitation and even clean water may be within the reach of all, but only if many of...

19 Feb 2018

Fairer world may mean more modest dreams

News / Carbon & Climate

Slice of Greenland ice melts into oblivion

By the century’s end, some of Greenland’s ice will have vanished forever. New research shows that the coastal glaciers and ice caps are melting faster than they ever have done, and they may even have ...

17 Apr 2017

Slice of Greenland ice melts into oblivion

News / Carbon & Climate

Activists in Indonesia protest China-funded dam in orangutan habitat

Activists in Indonesia have called on the Chinese government to withdraw funding for a hydroelectric dam that threatens to fragment the only known habitat of the most endangered great ape on Earth. Re...

10 May 2018

Activists in Indonesia protest China-funded dam in orangutan habitat

Opinion / Transport

Using high-tech infrastructure to fight climate change

...carbon projects. We must also encourage and motivate innovative companies in the private sector to participate in this process, through instruments including public-private partnerships. Finally, poli...

31 May 2017

Using high-tech infrastructure to fight climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

May urged to melt Trump’s climate doubts

...carbon world. “The early signals have raised alarm bells, but many people have commented that actually the low carbon, clean tech transition is now well established. There was a very large gathering o...

31 Jan 2017

May urged to melt Trump’s climate doubts

Opinion / Cities

Five keys to a healthy and liveable city

...carbon emissions. The gathering in Copenhagen was part of a partnership between Gehl, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Novo Nordisk’s Cities Changing Diabetesprogramme. Using Copenhagen as ...

30 Oct 2017

Five keys to a healthy and liveable city

Opinion / Energy

China's plan to increase coal power by 20 per cent is not the climate disaster it seems

...carbon emissions by 2030 and reduce its carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced per unit of GDP) by 60 to 65 per cent below 2005 levels. To do so, it must therefore decouple emissions from eco...

28 Nov 2016

China's plan to increase coal power by 20 per cent is not the climate disaster it seems

News / Carbon & Climate

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

New research has confirmed one of the worst nightmares of climate science: the instability of the East Antarctic ice sheet. This vast mass holds enough water to raise sea levels by 53 metres worldwide...

19 Dec 2017

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

The Singapore skyline during the haze of 2015. About one third of the fires are believed to have occured in APP's concessions in South Sumatra. image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

APP hires former Singapore army general as sustainability chief

...carbon-rich soil that must first be drained to grow crops, and on which 70 per cent of APP's plantations are grown. Tan said in a statement from the company about his appointment: “Despite firm ‘no bu...

10 Jul 2017

APP hires former Singapore army general as sustainability chief

News / Food & Agriculture

Industry, NGOs agree to single approach to eliminating deforestation from palm oil supply chain

...Carbon Stock” landscape and setting rules for conversion of land to oil palm plantations in a sustainable manner prior to this announcement. One, the High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA), was first devel...

10 Nov 2016

Industry, NGOs agree to single approach to eliminating deforestation from palm oil supply chain

News / Transport

The top 5 transport and logistics stories in 2016

...Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) enables aviation companies to offset carbon emissions through the purchase of carbon credits, so that emissions will remain at 20...

2 Jan 2017

The top 5 transport and logistics stories in 2016

News / Lifestyle

Have yourself a merry low-carbon Christmas

...carbon Christmas and Lunar New Year? Going green doesn't necessarily mean turning into the Grinch – a few small steps could help to save money and the earth this festive season. 1) Sharing is caring L...

20 Dec 2016

Have yourself a merry low-carbon Christmas

News / Carbon & Climate

Conserving habitat not enough to help species cope with climate change

...carbon-releasing — step of getting rid of largely natural forests. Critically, habitat conservation didn’t prevent some lowland and alpine species from disappearing completely from the region. “For th...

12 Oct 2017

Conserving habitat not enough to help species cope with climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The business sector is the deer caught in the Paris Agreement headlights

...carbon internally or plan “to soon do so” (whatever this means), of which some 140 are “embedding a carbon price deeper within business strategies and operations to help take tangible action on climat...

10 Oct 2016

The business sector is the deer caught in the Paris Agreement headlights

News / Carbon & Climate

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free before mid-century

...carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, the Arctic Ocean will be free of ice in September – the annual minimum – and the world’s shipping will have a new, safe, fast route across the Arctic Circle. Quite wh...

4 Nov 2016

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free before mid-century

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