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‘A waste of time and money’: Why are environmental assessments so ineffective in Nepal?

...1:25 [rule] that was in place earlier, and it has been reduced to 1:10 now without any scientific basis. If you ask why not 1:5 or 1:2 – there is no answer. It would have been more practical to have f...

25 Nov 2022

‘A waste of time and money’: Why are environmental assessments so ineffective in Nepal?

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Will Indonesia's new forest pact with Norway open door to more funding?

...19 - has had a slow start, with local media reporting that no funds had been received or disbursed for green projects by early 2021. However, the US-based Ford Foundation provided $1 million in grant...

23 Sep 2022

Will Indonesia's new forest pact with Norway open door to more funding?

News / Carbon & Climate

Indian farmers rack up carbon credits with climate-conscious ways

...17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, according to UN data. Higher yields, lower emissions Singh first heard about the carbon credit programme in 2019 from a representative of Grow I...

12 Dec 2023

Indian farmers rack up carbon credits with climate-conscious ways

Opinion / Waste

South Asian leadership is needed for an equitable plastics treaty

...12 per cent from consumer goods, and 11 per cent from clothing and textiles. In South Asia, the detrimental effects of plastic waste on the environment and health are especially noticeable due to a co...

19 May 2023

South Asian leadership is needed for an equitable plastics treaty

News / Policy & Finance

‘A substantial threat’: The impact of climate risks on different companies

...1 – caused nearly US$1 billion in damage in southern and central Philippines. In Thailand, typhoon-induced floods can have an impact on rice production in various regions, and lead to reduced crop ou...

26 Mar 2024

‘A substantial threat’: The impact of climate risks on different companies

Opinion / Energy

Closing the clean tech gap

...1 per cent of global CO2 emissions, while China is responsible for more than 30 per cent. Our estimates show the UK’s emissions dropping to 0.6 per cent of the global total by 2030, with China’s share...

31 Aug 2023

Closing the clean tech gap

News / Green Buildings

HK property firms object to proposed SBTi rule change; say it will make net-zero targets ‘impossible to achieve’ in Asia

...1.5°C, may amend their rules to allow real estate firms to report only Scope 2 electricity emissions reductions in the places where they consume energy – an approach known as location-based accounting...

26 Sep 2023

HK property firms object to proposed SBTi rule change; say it will make net-zero targets ‘impossible to achieve’ in Asia

News / Energy

Petronas, Pertamina among national oil companies at highest risk of not generating public returns in net-zero world

As oil becomes more expensive to produce and its demand falls in line with a future where global temperature increase is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, national oil companies are at risk of not being...

9 Dec 2023

Petronas, Pertamina among national oil companies at highest risk of not generating public returns in net-zero world

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Loss and damage fund must deliver climate justice to affected communities

...1. “ The world can no longer afford to delay in assisting developing countries and communities. Nor can we allow the newly fund to remain an empty vessel. Many of these issues are more political th...

30 Aug 2023

Loss and damage fund must deliver climate justice to affected communities

News / Policy & Finance

Green buildings: Ending the demolish and rebuild cycle in China

...10,000–11,400). As a result, heat pump sales tend to be policy-driven. From 2013–2017, in the context of the “coal-to-electricity” shift for home heating in northern China, and the introduction of a s...

1 Jun 2023

Green buildings: Ending the demolish and rebuild cycle in China

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The case for free trade in environmental goods

...1 per watt for the world’s largest producers, including Germany, Japan, the United States, and the People’s Republic of China. The ability to import such cheap renewable technology makes the clean-ene...

1 Aug 2023

The case for free trade in environmental goods

News / Transport

The roadblocks obstructing EV uptake in Nepal

...12 billion (USD 90.3 million) in the fiscal year 2021 to 2022, a figure that had more than doubled in a year. The majority of these imports were cars and two-wheelers from India and China. However, su...

7 Dec 2023

The roadblocks obstructing EV uptake in Nepal

News / Food & Agriculture

Former RSPO co-chair Carl Bek-Nielsen appointed chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council

...1 May 2023. He succeeds politician Larry Sng, who had been appointed as council chairman in October 2021. Sng had replaced another politician as chairman, former chief minister of the state of Johor O...

27 Mar 2023

Former RSPO co-chair Carl Bek-Nielsen appointed chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council

News / Carbon & Climate

Health impact of air pollution missing from two-thirds of national climate plans

...14 of the top 15 countries were low- or middle-income nations, led by Colombia and Mali with Chile the only high-income country. Yet overall, only 51 of the 170 NDCs - or fewer than a third of tho...

19 Oct 2023

Health impact of air pollution missing from two-thirds of national climate plans

News / Policy & Finance

Transforming COP: Is it time for the UN climate talks to downsize and change format?

...15 in Copenhagen in 2009, which more than 27,000 people attended, came to US$250 million, while France spent more than US$180 million when it hosted the COP21 for 40,000 delegates in 2015, according t...

8 Jul 2024

Transforming COP: Is it time for the UN climate talks to downsize and change format?

News / Transport

Chemical companies must tackle Scope 3 emissions to cut carbon footprint: TfS general manager Gabriel Unger

...15 and previously worked at chemical company BASF. She has over 20 years of experience in the chemical industry. TfS was formed in 2011 when chemical companies BASF, Bayer, Evonik Industries, Henkel, ...

5 Dec 2023

Chemical companies must tackle Scope 3 emissions to cut carbon footprint: TfS general manager Gabriel Unger

News / Carbon & Climate

‘The hottest year’: 10 extreme weather events in 2023

...10 – which are particles of pollution that are smaller than 10 micrometers in diameter and can travel to the lungs – reached a peak concentration of 1,667 micrograms per cubic metre according to the B...

27 Dec 2023

‘The hottest year’: 10 extreme weather events in 2023

News / Policy & Finance

How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia

...16 billion between 2019 and 2023, resulting in the highest number of microfinance borrowers per capita globally. While advocates claim that access to small-scale enterprise funding has lifted many Cam...

22 Apr 2024

How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia

Press Releases / Schneider Electric

Only 1 in 2 Singaporeans confident organisations will meet climate goals: Schneider Electric survey

...1997 and 2012; Baby Boomers are individuals born between the years of 1946 and 1964. ^ [3] Schneider Electric, “Building a Greener Singapore”, 2021. ^ [4] Ibid.

10 Oct 2022

Only 1 in 2 Singaporeans confident organisations will meet climate goals: Schneider Electric survey

News / Policy & Finance

Congo's GiveDirectly fraud and the future of cash transfers

United States-based nonprofit group GiveDirectly recently disclosed a nearly US$1 million fraud scheme involving one of its cash transfer aid programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)....

23 Jun 2023

Congo's GiveDirectly fraud and the future of cash transfers

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