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Research / SWITCH-Asia Programme

The role of SCP in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Over the last decades, climate change has emerged as a significant threat, impacting on human health, ecosystems, biodiversity, food and energy security. Climate change has been fuelled, among others,...

2 Mar 2017

The role of SCP in climate change mitigation and adaptation

News / Transport

How climate change is altering air travel

Phoenix gets hot. But not usually as hot as last June, when the mercury at the airport one day soared above 118 °F (48 °C). That exceeded the maximum operating temperature for several aircraft ready f...

20 Feb 2018

How climate change is altering air travel

News / Carbon & Climate

U.S. and China to lead push on climate change at G20 summit

...carbon, Steer said. "If we're to move from today's high-carbon, low-efficiency world economy to tomorrow's high-efficiency, low-carbon world economy, quite a lot needs to shift," he said. This story w...

2 Sep 2016

U.S. and China to lead push on climate change at G20 summit

Women sort and check the finished products in the manufacturing plant of the Wool Tex Sweaters Limited in Shewrapara, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Opinion / Manufacturing

Why business is the best partner in the fight against modern slavery

Slavery is outlawed in every country in the world. It is universally abhorred. Yet more people are enslaved today than when slavery was legal.Why? Because, today, the millions of men, women and childr...

26 Jan 2018

Why business is the best partner in the fight against modern slavery

News / Carbon & Climate

Drying increases peat bog fire hazard

Scientists in Canada have confirmed once again an unexpected hazard in the world of climate change: the subterranean fire. Peat bogs – massive stores of atmospheric carbon, held in partly-decomposed f...

12 Jul 2016

Drying increases peat bog fire hazard

News / Carbon & Climate

Food shortages due to climate change could fuel violence, unrest - research

Food shortages caused by climate shocks like drought or floods could exacerbate violence and riots in politically unstable countries, researchers say. Fragile states that are poor and depend heavily o...

16 Jun 2017

Food shortages due to climate change could fuel violence, unrest - research

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump's order to reverse Obama-era climate policies draws debates

...carbon emissions," American Petroleum Institute president and CEO Jack Gerard said in a statement. Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA chief under Obama, however, said the order wants "us to travel back ...

30 Mar 2017

Trump's order to reverse Obama-era climate policies draws debates

he reasons for the rejection include the absence of meaningful consultation about BRS’s industrial plantation development plans and failute to request or get approval from these communities for the development of an Industrial Timber Estate on community owned land. The socialization arranged by BRS in August 2015 in Air Gantang village involved intimidation by the national police and army.

News / Food & Agriculture

APP mega mill supplier faces community protests over land rights

...carbon-rich peatlands, and lead to more fires that have shrouded Southeast Asia in toxic haze for decades. Now, community groups from the province of Bangka Belitung in South Sumatra are planning to p...

9 Mar 2017

APP mega mill supplier faces community protests over land rights

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change and sustainable development: only one agenda

...carbon finance, on which the programme has considerable institutional knowledge. “ The global response to climate change is integral to achieving sustainable development and, on the ground, there is ...

24 Jan 2017

Climate change and sustainable development: only one agenda

News / Green Buildings

Mud bricks best for cool, green houses, says study

...carbon footprint of all four walling materials, and found that mud concrete bricks were the most environmentally friendly to produce and dispose of. To check on thermal conductivity the researchers bu...

3 Jul 2017

Mud bricks best for cool, green houses, says study

News / Cities

15 trailblazing urban innovations

...carbon emissions reduction. Residents are issued “carbon green cards” that track their energy use with sensors. Participating households can redeem the cards for rewards, such as discounts on househol...

13 Jan 2017

15 trailblazing urban innovations

meghalaya root bridge green infrastructure

Opinion / Cities

The architecture of resilience

...carbon sink and food supply. It’s time to push green infrastructure as the fabric that binds a town together, connecting people through parks, preserves, riparian areas, wetlands, lakes, streams, pond...

4 Dec 2017

The architecture of resilience

News / Corporate Responsibility

5 ways to save Boracay

Boracay Island, located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, has been the country's top tourist draw since the 1980s when its fine powdery sand and clear blue water were first discovered ...

14 Mar 2018

5 ways to save Boracay

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Germany must lead the G20 on climate and energy policy

...carbonisation. In order to reach this overarching goal of the Paris Agreement, which has just entered into effect, a clear perspective is needed: A roadmap must be developed for turning away from foss...

8 Dec 2016

Germany must lead the G20 on climate and energy policy

Opinion / Lifestyle

Universities must act now on sustainability goals

In an unpredictable and insecure global political scene, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are intended to tackle pressing global challenges. Agreed on by all participating coun...

5 Sep 2017

Universities must act now on sustainability goals

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesians race to save their disappearing lakes, before it’s too late

Anton Kui has fished here since he was in fifth grade. He remembers he could quickly catch a day’s worth of fish close to his home. That was the 1970s, when this lake in Gorontalo province, on the Ind...

1 Dec 2017

Indonesians race to save their disappearing lakes, before it’s too late

News / Carbon & Climate

New solar-reflecting film can cool homes without air con - scientists

While Australians struggle to keep their air conditioners humming as a heatwave threatens to overwhelm the country's power grid, US scientists say they have found a way to cool homes without using ele...

15 Feb 2017

New solar-reflecting film can cool homes without air con - scientists

News / Policy & Finance

Reshuffle: DECC folded into new department headed by Greg Clark

...carbon and to do so in a way that sends a clear and consistent signal for investors. 2010: On opportunities of low-carbon economy I believe [the] biggest threat to our prosperity, social fairness and ...

22 Jul 2016

Reshuffle: DECC folded into new department headed by Greg Clark

News / Carbon & Climate

Gas flaring grows as oil industry saves money

...carbon or soot which when deposited on Arctic ice, accelerates melting. The latest data on flaring has been released by the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, a Bank-led organisation made up of...

29 Dec 2016

Gas flaring grows as oil industry saves money

News / Food & Agriculture

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

...carbon-rich peatland and then registered the land in his name for a nominal fee. Kasno, who also does a part-time job to support his family, pays two Indonesians a monthly wage of 150 ringgit ($39) ea...

3 Apr 2018

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?