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News / Carbon & Climate

COP29 opens with approval of global carbon credit trade rules

...ised emissions reductions are additional and can be easily verified. Last year's COP28 summit in Dubai failed to deliver a consensus to operationalise the mechanism, despite high hopes of a positive o...

12 Nov 2024

COP29 opens with approval of global carbon credit trade rules

News / Policy & Finance

'Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals

...and expansion and species risk in the Afrotropics, national parks and large protected areas, cropland expansion overall did not have a significant impact on biodiversity extinction risk in protected a...

21 Apr 2023

'Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals

News / Carbon & Climate

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

...inning of the end,” said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell in his closing speech. He described the raft of initiatives announced at COP28 as a “climate-action lifeline, not a finish l...

14 Dec 2023

Does COP28 signal the beginning of an end to the fossil fuel era? It depends on who you ask.

News / Carbon & Climate

Bangladeshi mothers opt for larger families despite losing children to climate catastrophes

...ion actions calls for significant investments from both the government and the international community. Meanwhile, accessing global funds and ensuring their effective utilisation presents additional c...

23 Feb 2024

Bangladeshi mothers opt for larger families despite losing children to climate catastrophes

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

...in the Philippines.” Southeast Asia remains a major fossil fuel importer, with the Philippines and Thailand accounting for 40 per cent of the total combined oil imports in the region in 2020. “ Clim...

21 Nov 2023

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

Celine Lim delivering a letter to Buckingham Palace in January 2023

News / Food & Agriculture

Indigenous activist on how to confront powerful forces to protect Malaysian forests and people – and win

...inancially crippling law suit. Malaysian timber giant Samling was suing Save Rivers for defamation, seeking RM5 million (US$1.1 million) in damages for articles on the organisation's website that rais...

2 Feb 2024

Indigenous activist on how to confront powerful forces to protect Malaysian forests and people – and win

News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

...ironmental impacts of herbicide and insecticide use. It further led to cuts in fuel use and tillage changes, resulting in a “significant reduction” in emissions from areas growing GM crops. Combining...

7 Jun 2024

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

News / Water

New platform unites tech and activism to monitor sand mining in India

...infrastructure – sand is big business in India. Demand for Indian sand tripled between 2000 and 2017, and in 2019 the industry was valued at INR 150 billion (USD 2 billion). And while China is the run...

16 Aug 2023

New platform unites tech and activism to monitor sand mining in India

News / Carbon & Climate

‘The phase down of fossil fuels is both essential and inevitable’: COP28's Razan Al Mubarak

...inisterial with the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People. This crucial initiative will assess the commitments made at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15. It is our shared goal...

17 Oct 2023

‘The phase down of fossil fuels is both essential and inevitable’: COP28's Razan Al Mubarak

News / Energy

Malaysia's Exim Bank defends US$3 billion coal plant in Vietnam, citing environmental benefits; clarifies 'lead arranger' role

...is aligned with Vietnam’s energy transition plan, as well as Malaysia's upcoming chairmanship in the Asean regional grouping. It highlighted that the initiative, "one of the biggest of its kind" with ...

5 Jul 2024

Malaysia's Exim Bank defends US$3 billion coal plant in Vietnam, citing environmental benefits; clarifies 'lead arranger' role

Press Releases / UN Women

International Day of Care and Support: a milestone for gender equality, sustainable societies

...isations, women’s and community-based organisations, feminist groups, youth and religious organisations, and other relevant actors. Remarking on this achievement, the United Nations High Commis...

15 Aug 2023

International Day of Care and Support: a milestone for gender equality, sustainable societies

News / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’

...and methane emissions and produce more rice have been gaining traction in China. In other parts of Asia, different solutions aim to cut methane emissions from rice fields by draining and re-flooding ...

16 Sep 2024

Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’

News / Policy & Finance

Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative on the brink of a green shift?

...ial for aligning investment decisions with local needs, concretising their commitment to sustainability, and shifting financing to green projects.” Asia Society, a non-profit organisation with offices...

27 Sep 2023

Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative on the brink of a green shift?

News / Policy & Finance

Malayan tiger roadkills drive national conversation on how to save the endangered icon

...itat, risking their lives to cross dangerous highways in search of food. He said these incidents reveal the underlying issues of habitat fragmentation and insufficient and poorly designed wildlife cro...

29 Jul 2024

Malayan tiger roadkills drive national conversation on how to save the endangered icon

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: Can China’s ‘ecological redlines’ help other countries hit conservation goals?

...and Environment, part of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, visited Brazil for meetings with the environment and agriculture ministries, during which experiences of surveying biodiversity we...

16 Dec 2024

Q&A: Can China’s ‘ecological redlines’ help other countries hit conservation goals?

Kishore Mahbubani at Unlocking capital for sustainability 2024

News / Carbon & Climate

US-China rivalry driven by irrationality could derail climate action: former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani

...ied with elections might not exercise rationality and will have competing political considerations, Mahbubani told his audience. The allocation of climate funding, for example, is a divisive discussio...

17 Sep 2024

US-China rivalry driven by irrationality could derail climate action: former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Looking past the label: the nutritionists’ guide to plant-based milk

...ition and Dietetics Association and head of the Glycemic Index Research Unit at Temasek Polytechnic (left) and Patti O'Keefe, registered nutritionist with the Association of Nutrition and Sustainabili...

9 Jun 2023

Looking past the label: the nutritionists’ guide to plant-based milk

News / Water

Migrate to survive: Water woes clear out villages in hilly Nepal

...It has also distributed materials including pipes for rainwater harvesting projects, the official said. But such harvesting initiatives - which collect rainfall that falls on roofs and filter it in a ...

12 Jun 2023

Migrate to survive: Water woes clear out villages in hilly Nepal

News / Waste

In Vietnam, waste pickers fight the climate crisis, but with no social safety net

...ics, said it is important for for-profit entities to involve informal waste workers for both economic and social justice reasons. "It would help improve their social status and provide income for inde...

17 May 2023

In Vietnam, waste pickers fight the climate crisis, but with no social safety net

News / Energy

The energy capital powering India and poisoning its residents

...and mining companies to provide drinking water to communities. But Vishwakarma was not fully satisfied with the outcome and filed a new case with a group of activists with the National Green Tribu...

1 Nov 2024

The energy capital powering India and poisoning its residents