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If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?

...carbon pricing’s footprint to 25 per cent of global emissions by 2020. What carbon pricing pioneers have yet to prove, however, is that it can deliver on its potential. To date most carbon prices rem...

26 Jul 2016

If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?

News / Cities

6 megatrends that will shape the future of cities

...carbon neutral buildings To ensure that Australia meets its climate change targets, all new buildings must be emissions-neutral by 2030, and all existing ones should achieve this by 2050, said the Gre...

14 Mar 2017

6 megatrends that will shape the future of cities

News / Carbon & Climate

Much of South Asia could be too hot to live in by 2100 - scientists

Climate change could make much of South Asia - home to a fifth of the world's population - too hot for human survival by the end of this century, scientists warned on Wednesday. If climate change cont...

3 Aug 2017

Much of South Asia could be too hot to live in by 2100 - scientists

News / Food & Agriculture

How a new way of thinking about soil sparked a national movement in agriculture

...carbon, reduce erosion and support an ecosystem that’s teeming with life. Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, popularis...

11 Apr 2017

How a new way of thinking about soil sparked a national movement in agriculture

Styrofoam and plastic litter create an eyesore in Haiti

Opinion / Manufacturing

Four tough actions that would help fight the global plastic crisis

The environmental impact of plastic is finally receiving the attention it deserves. This is partly down to the BBC’s Blue Planet II highlighting the problem of ocean plastics. But it’s also because th...

11 Jan 2018

Four tough actions that would help fight the global plastic crisis

News / Energy

Long-lasting, sustainable batteries may be just around the corner - just not for your phone

...carbon dioxide emissions today, but with better generation and storage technologies coming on stream there’s reason to hope that developing countries will have the means to rebalance that equation as ...

13 Jul 2017

Long-lasting, sustainable batteries may be just around the corner - just not for your phone

News / Carbon & Climate

A tale of two otters: settling in Singapore, suffering in China

Few urbanites have seen an otter. Fewer still have seen a “romp” of them. Yet in Singapore, the most urbanized country in the world, commuters can watch whole families breakfast on fish just a few min...

8 Feb 2018

A tale of two otters: settling in Singapore, suffering in China

News / Transport

Put ‘people, not cars’ first in transport systems, says UN Environment chief

...carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the fastest growing sector in greenhouse gas emissions. It will be responsible for a third of CO2 emissions by 2050 at current rates. “ But it isn’t just about acciden...

24 Oct 2016

Put ‘people, not cars’ first in transport systems, says UN Environment chief

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon dioxide could ease drought impacts

...carbon dioxide fertilisation effect. “ Plants matter. A number of studies assume that plant water needs are constant, when what we know about plants growing in lots of carbon dioxide suggests the opp...

15 Sep 2016

Carbon dioxide could ease drought impacts

News / Energy

Pollution-linked deaths in Asia to surge if coal power plans go ahead

...carbon emissions by 2030 to a level that exceeds emissions from the United States and Europe combined, the study predicted. Lauri Myllyvirta, senior global coal campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia, not...

18 Jan 2017

Pollution-linked deaths in Asia to surge if coal power plans go ahead

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

...carbon price, and Johannesburg has issued green bonds. Beginning with the basics It’s not just about building big infrastructure. Uganda’s capital Kampala, for example, does not have a metro. But ac...

9 Jan 2018

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

News / Carbon & Climate

Record high temperatures grip much of the globe, more hot weather to come

Extremely high May and June temperatures have broken records in parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the United States, the United Nations weather agency reported today, warning of more ...

24 Jun 2017

Record high temperatures grip much of the globe, more hot weather to come

News / Corporate Responsibility

Half of Singaporeans want sustainable brands

More than 50 per cent of Singapore consumers and half of all shoppers in the Asia Pacific region believe that companies should ensure that their supply chains do no harm to the environment. These wer...

9 Jan 2018

Half of Singaporeans want sustainable brands

News / Waste

Drop in the ocean? British supermarkets look to bottle deposits to cut pollution

A return scheme for plastic bottles could soon allow British consumers to enjoy a drink of juice or water without adding to a sea of pollution - as well as getting some of their money back. The idea o...

11 Dec 2017

Drop in the ocean? British supermarkets look to bottle deposits to cut pollution

Fishermen unloading buckets of fish from their boats in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A new set of values: Can technology help tackle illegal fishing?

...carbon and water intensive than alternative sources of land-based protein. Much of the growth in seafood in recent years has been driven by Asia, both in consumer demand as well as export production. ...

12 May 2017

A new set of values: Can technology help tackle illegal fishing?

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising temperatures cut economic output

We are hot, we are tired, and we work less. Rising temperatures caused by climate change not only threaten to destroy many of the world’s ecosystems on which animal and human life depend, but heat inc...

5 Sep 2017

Rising temperatures cut economic output

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Preparing to live sustainably alongside increasing natural risks

The past few weeks have been a grim reminder that natural disasters know no borders. They can strike countries at opposite ends of the globe simultaneously and whether in Asia or North America, the im...

22 Sep 2017

Preparing to live sustainably alongside increasing natural risks

News / Carbon & Climate

Forest restoration can turn the clock back

...carbon dioxide released by industrial combustion of fossil fuels, limiting global warming. Burning, clear-felling and ploughing of forest lands release centuries of stored carbon back into the atmosp...

23 Aug 2016

Forest restoration can turn the clock back

News / Water

How new technologies are shrinking wastewater’s hefty carbon footprint

...carbon dioxide. Bacteria do the work again, but this time without oxygen. The resulting methane can be captured and burned in a biogas engine to produce electricity and heat that can be used in the pl...

28 Mar 2017

How new technologies are shrinking wastewater’s hefty carbon footprint

German lady and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

News / Carbon & Climate

What the SDGs mean to these global leaders

Why is gender equality the most important Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Unilever's Paul Polman? How will SDG 9—industry, innovation and infrastructure—change how the United Nations approache...

12 Jul 2017

What the SDGs mean to these global leaders

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