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Fossil fuel industry must halt expansion

...carbon in the pipeline – today − to break through the sky’s limit.” Greg Muttitt, author of The Sky’s Limit, a new report that contains the analysis, argues that previous studies on carbon budgets hav...

11 Oct 2016

Fossil fuel industry must halt expansion

News / Policy & Finance

HSBC accused of breaking EU sanctions rules by co-financing Vietnam coal plant

HSBC, one of the world’s largest financial services groups, may have broken European Union (EU) sanctions regulations by working with a Russian bank on the financing of a new coal-fired power plant in...

22 Nov 2017

HSBC accused of breaking EU sanctions rules by co-financing Vietnam coal plant

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Effective governance key to improving the quality of Asia-Pacific economic growth

...carbon emissions, not captured in GDP, undermine the sustainability of economies and affect inter-generational equity. This is why, in the second year of the adoption by world leaders of the transform...

2 May 2017

Effective governance key to improving the quality of Asia-Pacific economic growth

Opinion / Lifestyle

The meaty side of climate change

Last year, three of the world’s largest meat companies – JBS, Cargill, and Tyson Foods – emitted more greenhouse gases than France, and nearly as much as some big oil companies. And yet, while energy ...

22 Dec 2017

The meaty side of climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Focus on temperature ignores other ways to take the pulse of the planet

...carbon dioxide, and it is widely used as a measure of the size of the problem the world is facing. Temperature goals have been used to coordinate the preparations of scientists and diplomats for many ...

21 Feb 2017

Focus on temperature ignores other ways to take the pulse of the planet

News / Energy

Is Taiwan’s 20 per cent renewable energy target a political pipe dream?

The President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday that the shift to renewable energy must pick up pace if the country is to be 20 per cent renewables-powered by 2025—a target set by the governmen...

19 Oct 2017

Is Taiwan’s 20 per cent renewable energy target a political pipe dream?

News / Carbon & Climate

Karachi is unsafe with nuclear, solar better

...carbon footprint, as well as the concerns he has for Pakistan’s energy security. Does your home, and all electrical appliances in it, run entirely on solar energy? Pervez Hoodbhoy (PH): No, solar doe...

20 Feb 2017

Karachi is unsafe with nuclear, solar better

Jane Goodall panel discussion in Singapore, MES Theatre

News / Waste

Singapore’s plastic bag debate balloons at Jane Goodall lecture

...carbon dioxide and breathe life-sustaining oxygen back into the atmosphere. The topic was picked up in a panel discussion after Goodall's address, which also featured Desmond Lee, newly promoted minis...

8 Aug 2017

Singapore’s plastic bag debate balloons at Jane Goodall lecture

News / Food & Agriculture

At food trading 'chokepoints', climate change could disrupt supplies - report

Disruptions caused by weather, conflict or politics at one of those so-called "chokepoints" could limit food supplies and push up prices, the study by British think-tank Chatham House warned. "The ris...

3 Jul 2017

At food trading 'chokepoints', climate change could disrupt supplies - report

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and Islamic State seen as world's major threats - survey

Climate change is ranked alongside the Islamic State as one of the world's two greatest threats with increasing numbers of people concerned about global warming, according to an international survey b...

10 Aug 2017

Climate change and Islamic State seen as world's major threats - survey

News / Transport

Volvo’s EV push hints at China’s electric ambition

...carbon dioxide emissions in the US and Europe are pushing automakers to put more efficient cars on the road, and most are moving in this direction, she said. Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW have all annou...

19 Jul 2017

Volvo’s EV push hints at China’s electric ambition

News / Policy & Finance

Poor nations suffer most deaths, economic pain from wild weather

Fatalities and economic losses from severe weather are rising in many of the world's poorest countries as climate change and a lack of disaster preparedness worsen threats, risk experts said. Over the...

17 Oct 2017

Poor nations suffer most deaths, economic pain from wild weather

Farmed fish like these carp now make an important contribution to global food security.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger

Over the past three decades, the global aquaculture industry has risen from obscurity to become a critical source of food for millions of people. In 1990, only 13 per cent of world seafood consumption...

12 Mar 2018

Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger

News / Energy

Solar steam powers homes – and new jobs – in South Africa

South Africa may still get most of its energy from coal, but in the country's sunny Northern Cape province, a different electricity source is taking hold: solar steam. A Spanish renewable energy compa...

16 Jan 2018

Solar steam powers homes – and new jobs – in South Africa

Former US Vice President Al Gore returns to the big screen in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Opinion / Lifestyle

Review: Is An Inconvenient Sequel the wake-up call we all need?

...carbon-free power, simply because it makes economic sense to do so. A convenient story But despite the strengths of An Inconvenient Truth, it often feels like its filmmakers have chosen to go with t...

23 Aug 2017

Review: Is An Inconvenient Sequel the wake-up call we all need?

News / Transport

China on the road to eliminating fossil fuel vehicles

...carbon emissions. This story was published with permission from China.org.cn

11 Sep 2017

China on the road to eliminating fossil fuel vehicles

News / Carbon & Climate

Common moss may prove a cheap city pollution monitor, say scientists

Delicate mosses found on rocks and trees in cities around the world can be used to measure the impact of atmospheric change and could prove a low-cost way to monitor urban pollution, according to Japa...

24 Aug 2017

Common moss may prove a cheap city pollution monitor, say scientists

a woman in Bangladesh living on the frontline of climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

2017 is the tipping point for loss and damage from climate change

Even before we come to end of the year we already know that 2017 will be one of the warmest years on record and we have seen a succession of extreme weather events around the world, including typhoons...

15 Nov 2017

2017 is the tipping point for loss and damage from climate change

News / Energy

Carbon capture and storage could be cheaper than nuclear, says report

...carbon power generation that the CCC says is required in the 2020s. This story was originally published by Carbon Brief under a Creative Commons' License and was republished with permission. Read the ...

13 Sep 2016

Carbon capture and storage could be cheaper than nuclear, says report

The Panasonic Kids School programme reached approximately 2.8 million young people around the world. Image: Panasonic

News / Corporate Responsibility

Green dreamers: How firms are grooming a generation of sustainability thinkers

As climate change and sustainable development edge into the mainstream, no demographic is more influenced and affected by today’s environmental and social challenges than young people. Home to some 70...

22 May 2018

Green dreamers: How firms are grooming a generation of sustainability thinkers

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