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Coal miners at Lao Ye Temple Mine in Shanxi, China

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Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

Worldwide emissions of methane have hit the “highest levels on record”, according to an international team of scientists. The finding comes from the latest update to the Global Methane Budget, an inte...

16 Jul 2020

Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

Press Releases / Maxeon Solar Technologies

Maxeon Solar Technologies joins the United Nations Global Compact

In its first full quarter, the company commits to world's largest corporate sustainability initiative Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MAXN), a global leader in solar innovation, today joined...

15 Dec 2020

Maxeon Solar Technologies joins the United Nations Global Compact

News / Carbon & Climate

South Korea declares climate emergency, sets net zero target for 2050

South Korea declared a climate crisis on Thursday and established a non-binding goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, making it the second East Asian nation to set a tougher climate target this...

25 Sep 2020

South Korea declares climate emergency, sets net zero target for 2050

News / Corporate Responsibility

How will China’s internet giants become carbon neutral?

On 12 January, Tencent, one of the world’s largest internet companies, responded to the Chinese government’s carbon neutrality goal by announcing it was planning to reach neutrality itself. With China...

23 Feb 2021

How will China’s internet giants become carbon neutral?

News / Waste

How Singapore’s biggest supermarket player plans to unpack the packaging waste issue

In 2018, an investigation by news outlet The Guardian found that Britain’s leading supermarkets generated about 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste each year. How much plastic and other packagin...

13 Oct 2020

How Singapore’s biggest supermarket player plans to unpack the packaging waste issue

News / Energy

Proposed steep tariff cut risks disruption in Vietnam’s wind market, industry body warns

A new proposal to extend Vietnam’s wind power support programme but pay significantly lower rates to generators could thwart investment in wind projects and undermine the government’s renewable energy...

4 Dec 2020

Proposed steep tariff cut risks disruption in Vietnam’s wind market, industry body warns

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Reducing the forest footprint of Chinese soft-commodity financing

China, through its vast imports of commodities like soy, palm oil, rubber and timber, has an unparalleled impact on many commodity markets linked to global deforestation and related greenhouse gas emi...

7 May 2021

Reducing the forest footprint of Chinese soft-commodity financing

News / Manufacturing

Western fashion brands that 'exploit' Bangladesh suppliers face blacklisting

Bangladeshi manufacturers said on Wednesday that they would blacklist Western fashion brands that "exploit" them by failing to pay their bills due to the new coronavirus crisis, days after threatening...

28 May 2020

Western fashion brands that 'exploit' Bangladesh suppliers face blacklisting

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

While Covid-19 lockdown measures in 2020 brought about temporary improvements in air quality and lower greenhouse gas emissions, a pandemic alone has not reversed the effects of climate change in the ...

19 Jan 2021

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

Press Releases / Rights and Resources Initiative

New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda

Historically snubbed by exclusionary conservation, Indigenous and local communities’ role is integral to achieving UN’s 2030 biodiversity agenda. Over 1.65 billion Indigenous Peoples, l...

1 Dec 2020

New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda

Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon dioxide emissions fall – but by accident

Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 will not reach record levels. The main greenhouse gas was released into the atmosphere to fuel global warming during April at a rate 17 per cent lower than during the ...

26 May 2020

Carbon dioxide emissions fall – but by accident

Typhoon Haiyan rips through Tanauan, Leyte in the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Not personal enough: Why climate change is not yet a top priority

Spurring ambitious-enough action to stem climate change will require persuading most people that its impacts - from deadlier weather to surging migration - are a direct and imminent threat to themselv...

9 Oct 2020

Not personal enough: Why climate change is not yet a top priority

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Nature by the numbers

When Cyclone Amphan came barrelling up the Bay of Bengal this past May, South Asia’s first named storm of the year appeared to pose a massive threat to the people who live on the coastal floodplains ...

12 Aug 2020

Nature by the numbers

News / Energy

Pakistan pushes renewables—but coal expansion continues too

Pakistan this week set in motion a plan to boost the share of its electric power that comes from renewables to 30 per cent by 2030, up from about 4 per cent today, government officials said. "The targ...

12 Aug 2020

Pakistan pushes renewables—but coal expansion continues too

News / Food & Agriculture

Economic growth based on forest conversion has ‘no future’

Agricultural companies risk having stranded assets as the world responds to the climate crisis but large, vertically integrated palm oil players like Sime Darby, Wilmar and Golden Agri Resources are w...

23 Dec 2020

Economic growth based on forest conversion has ‘no future’

News / Carbon & Climate

Efforts to fix air pollution gasp for funding, as pandemic pressure builds

Development funding for efforts to tackle air pollution falls far short of what is needed in a world where nine in 10 people breathe air that is damaging their health - a problem thrown into sharp foc...

9 Sep 2020

Efforts to fix air pollution gasp for funding, as pandemic pressure builds

News / Waste

ADB: Coronavirus could leave major Southeast Asian cities with 1,000 extra tonnes of medical waste per day

In tandem with the increase in coronavirus cases, cities across Southeast Asia could see a surge in medical waste that few have the capacity to deal with, warned the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as i...

4 May 2020

ADB: Coronavirus could leave major Southeast Asian cities with 1,000 extra tonnes of medical waste per day

Opinion / Waste

As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis

Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes in 2016 to an estimated 4 billion tonnes by 2050 as consumer-oriented urban populations grow. As population growth increases consu...

31 Jan 2020

As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis

Eugene Wang, founder of Singapore biotech firm Sophie's BioNutrients.

News / Food & Agriculture

Covid-induced food insecurity has exposed under-investment in foodtech, says sustainability entrepreneur

Global supply chain disruptions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed a lack of investment in food technology that could have eased the food security issues that have affected many parts...

9 Jul 2020

Covid-induced food insecurity has exposed under-investment in foodtech, says sustainability entrepreneur

News / Energy

IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’

India is entering a “solar-powered revolution” that will see it edge out coal as the nation’s top electricity source, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Solar power currently makes up...

15 Feb 2021

IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’

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