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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green bonds do more harm than good

..., at best, $330 billion. However, despite the rather large volume of hot air from institutional investors about responsible investing and climate risks, it turns out that, for example, they contribute...

6 Mar 2018

Green bonds do more harm than good

If my parents don't pay the price then my kids and i will

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities: Why carbon pricing matters

..., countries, citizens, and a growing number of businesses around the world are finally taking action. This month, thousands gathered for the UN’s climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, to ratchet...

20 Nov 2017

Addressing challenges and seizing opportunities: Why carbon pricing matters

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

..., pork, and beef they serve, even though they know it has involved deforestation. McDonald’s, Burger King, the supermarket giants Ahold Delhaize, Tesco and Marks & Spencer, and many others have al...

2 Jul 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them

News / Food & Agriculture

Overfishing poses risks for investors

..., Fish Tracker A number of organisations, academic institutions and companies, in fact, have signed on to the Ocean & Climate Platform, a policy framework that calls for more sustainability, incl...

28 Feb 2018

Overfishing poses risks for investors

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?

...climate deniers, Donald Trump, but also the triumph of the Paris Agreement. "To fix the climate crisis we need to fix democracy", Gore declares at one point. For much of its 100 minutes, the film i...

23 Aug 2017

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

News / Waste

Trash heroes and scavenger apps battle Bali's 'garbage emergency'

..., the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org

24 Jul 2018

Trash heroes and scavenger apps battle Bali's 'garbage emergency'

Presliced vegetables in plastic wrapping on supermarket shelves

Opinion / Lifestyle

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

..., which has driven an 80 per cent reduction in single-use bags. But personal actions matter, too. Take the choices involved in a simple packed lunch of a falafel wrap, prepared at home. For the wrap, ...

26 Apr 2018

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

News / Energy

IEA: Renewables investment in India topped fossil fuels for first time in 2017

..., but this was more than offset by a decline in onshore wind, hydro and solar thermal investment. Speaking at a press briefing ahead of the report’s release, Simon Bennett, energy analyst at the IEA, ...

25 Jul 2018

IEA: Renewables investment in India topped fossil fuels for first time in 2017

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is triggering a migrant crisis in Vietnam

..., suggests that climate change is the dominant factor in the decisions of 14.5 per cent of migrants leaving the Mekong Delta. If this figure is correct, climate change is forcing 24,000 people to leav...

11 Jan 2018

Climate change is triggering a migrant crisis in Vietnam

News / Energy

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

..., for example when a blackout hits the grid. These diesel generators are noisy, polluting, and costly to maintain, but until recently, there weren’t many alternatives. That is changing, though, as att...

6 Mar 2018

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

solar powered streetlamps in Yunnan China

News / Cities

Cities, regions seen as ‘essential’ to growth in emissions trading

..., areas with such cap-and-trade schemes are slated to represent nearly half of the world’s economic output, according to ICAP. Given the ongoing politicisation of climate action, however, attention ha...

5 Sep 2017

Cities, regions seen as ‘essential’ to growth in emissions trading

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The climate change fight returns to Paris

..., companies, and private institutions to forge concrete strategies to shift away from fossil fuels. At the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, last month, 20 countries, led by Canada and the United Kin...

11 Dec 2017

The climate change fight returns to Paris

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk, say experts

..., marked only by barbed wire fencing. Most animals could easily pass over, under, or if they were bison, bust right through it, in their quest for food, water, mates, or suitable habitat as they moved...

13 Feb 2018

Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk, say experts

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Just signing the Paris Agreement is not enough

..., droughts, temperature anomalies over 5ºC in the Caribbean and California, in Europe and Africa. While scientists work on attributing specific weather events to climate change, we can say the extreme...

7 Nov 2017

Just signing the Paris Agreement is not enough

News / Food & Agriculture

Have your cake and eat it too—hotels can serve buffets and still cut food waste

..., such as SDG 2, zero hunger, and SDG 13, on climate action. In this interview, Eco-Business asked Swannell about "common sense" tips to cut food waste, whether buffets should be banned, and how legi...

18 Apr 2018

Have your cake and eat it too—hotels can serve buffets and still cut food waste

News / Energy

China’s role in Turkey’s energy future

...Climate and Energy Action Plan for Growth, a joint strategy to pursue climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. But away from the high level meetings, the Turkish government’s actions on climate a...

28 Sep 2017

China’s role in Turkey’s energy future

News / Carbon & Climate

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

..., co-author of report, University of Massachusetts That is because a second study, in the journal Earth’s Future, led by scientists from New Jersey and Massachusetts, reports that estimates of futur...

19 Dec 2017

East Antarctica ice sheet may spell trouble

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Stick with the program – corporate climate activism in the US

..., The Dow Chemical Company, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, and Unilever. And it’s not just the usual suspects either, a number of oil majors have also come out in favour of A...

19 May 2017

Stick with the program – corporate climate activism in the US

Children plant mangrove saplings in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

...climate change. Constantly battered by fierce typhoons, sea surges, and strong winds, the community knows that nature’s course has changed drastically in the last few years. Artemio Vergara, chief of ...

3 Apr 2018

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

Press Releases / Eco-Business

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

...climate action. A hotter climate could increase already-strong demand for cooling technologies, which could, by 2040, take up as much as 40 per cent of Southeast Asia’s electricity demand. The r...

5 Apr 2018

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

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