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Cheap renewables undercut nuclear power

...carbon electricity at a low price – something that intermittent renewables could not do. In 2017 it is clear this argument has fallen apart. Nuclear is ever more expensive, and the cost is growing, wh...

8 Jan 2018

Cheap renewables undercut nuclear power

News / Cities

Wi-Fi but no water: Can smart tech help a city's poor?

In the picturesque Barcelona district of El Born, residents can get a better night's sleep nowadays because garbage trucks pass only when bins in the street are full, thanks to high-tech sensors that ...

8 Jan 2018

Wi-Fi but no water: Can smart tech help a city's poor?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Financing fossil fuels is not a risk worth taking

...carbon budget if run at capacity. The bank has previously loaned $643 million to Adani for the purchase of the existing coal terminal at Abbot Point, on the shores of the Great Barrier Reef. How much ...

28 Feb 2017

Financing fossil fuels is not a risk worth taking

News / Green Buildings

Look outside the green buildings industry to advocate it

...carbon lifestyles, three earths will not be enough for China. Ye Qing, chairman, Shenzhen Institute of Building Research “The traditional Chinese way of life is a low-carbon one, with a lot of focus ...

9 Sep 2016

Look outside the green buildings industry to advocate it

Opinion / Cities

Urbanisation can be good for the environment

...carbon, water and waste; optimising the performance of building infrastructure; and developing long-term sustainability plans to address priorities, needs, and issues. Further, a targeted and systemat...

27 Feb 2017

Urbanisation can be good for the environment

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What’s holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?

...carbon. According to a recent report, three Russian companies have already embedded a carbon price into their business strategy. Vladimir Putin and Oleg Deripaska at APEC in 2014. Image: Wang Zhao/Re...

28 Sep 2016

What’s holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?

News / Food & Agriculture

Arctic seed vault turning 10 faces 'unprecedented' agricultural challenges

A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food supplies for future generations with countries urge...

28 Feb 2018

Arctic seed vault turning 10 faces 'unprecedented' agricultural challenges

News / Water

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

...carbon into an ecosystem already besieged by acidification and rising water temperatures. Attached to the port, the Cambodia Petrochemical Company has flattened mangroves and erected the first storage...

2 Feb 2018

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising warmth risks Arctic dogs’ survival

Greenland’s Arctic dogs, a key part of the massive island’s life and culture, are disappearing. According to local scientists and specialists in Denmark, the population of the dogs – traditionally u...

23 Aug 2017

Rising warmth risks Arctic dogs’ survival

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Want to protect oceans? Start with these 5 things

...carbon than any ecosystem on Earth. At the same time, they buffer coastal communities from storm surges while providing a veritable nursery for countless marine species crucial to people’s food securi...

10 Oct 2017

Want to protect oceans? Start with these 5 things

News / Energy

China leads the world in renewable energy

...carbon emissions under the UN drive to control global climate change. It set out impressive goals, including peaking its emissions by 2030 or sooner and increasing its low-carbon energy sources to 20 ...

3 Nov 2016

China leads the world in renewable energy

News / Food & Agriculture

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

...carbon loss and subsidence, and are thus environmentally unsustainable. The scientists object to several articles which portray a consensus among congress attendees that the widespread drainage of Ind...

5 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

News / Carbon & Climate

Buffeted but not sunk: Paris resilience plan tackles inequity and climate change

Paris plans to turn its school playgrounds into public "oases" offering cool, green spaces for children and parents alike as climate change ratchets up extreme heat and rainfall, just one of 35 action...

9 Oct 2017

Buffeted but not sunk: Paris resilience plan tackles inequity and climate change

Dave Chen, chairman and founder of Equilibrium Capital, talks at Ecosperity. "Sustainability is oftentimes about the little things," says Chen. Image: Temasek

News / Policy & Finance

Green finance: The hunt for pennies on the pavement

...carbon economy opportunity,” says the Taiwanese-American. “They won’t necessarily use the word sustainability. But they will use those very defined strategies and macro trends that are opportunities a...

27 Jun 2017

Green finance: The hunt for pennies on the pavement

Press Releases / CompaniesVsClimateChange

Climate change solutions must be business driven

...carbon footprint and is part of the effort to solve climate change. Companies Vs Climate Change (CvCC) is building a community around the idea that uniting businesses, in unison with governments, is ...

14 Feb 2017

Climate change solutions must be business driven

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Climate Change Authority report: A dissenting view

...carbon budget. The carbon budget is the total emissions that Australia can release between now and 2050 while still contributing its fair share in holding the global temperature rise to less than 2℃ –...

6 Sep 2016

The Climate Change Authority report: A dissenting view

Local villagers float past a pile of illegally logged trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia has a carrot to end illegal logging; now it needs a stick

Indonesia’s illegal logging problem has deep roots. The heavily forested nation supplied 219 million cubic metres of unreported or illegally sourced timber from 1991 to 2014. This is equal to more tha...

4 Jan 2018

Indonesia has a carrot to end illegal logging; now it needs a stick

News / Food & Agriculture

Korindo should lose FSC certification over deforestation, says NGO

...Carbon Stock areas in its operations; and respects the rights of indigenous communities. However, there is little public information to verify these claims. For instance, while several Korindo-owned p...

19 May 2017

Korindo should lose FSC certification over deforestation, says NGO

News / Energy

Financial blow for Adani as Westpac rules out funding Carmichael mine

...carbon emissions, and improving how the bank reports on its climate change performance. Brian Hartzer, chief executive officer, Westpac, said in a statement that "Westpac recognises that climate chan...

28 Apr 2017

Financial blow for Adani as Westpac rules out funding Carmichael mine

News / Corporate Responsibility

Building a ‘coalition of the willing’, one person at a time

...carbon footprint down as opposed to just the company's carbon footprint, because the latter is quite easy. But the real challenges come in influencing your suppliers. How did you manage to convince em...

16 Dec 2016

Building a ‘coalition of the willing’, one person at a time

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