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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Scaling Antarctica's vertical limits

...cclimatised to the Antarctic conditions. The team practices rope work, crevasse rescue, navigation, weather observations, and polar camping skills. “ The continent is losing large chunks of ice the s...

27 Jun 2018

Scaling Antarctica's vertical limits

Singapore's 'City in a Garden' plan has seen a network of parks, nature reserves and greened buildings span the 70 kilometre-squared island—but the country has just 0.5 per cent primary forest cover left. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

...concrete cooks in temperatures of up to 60 degrees Celsius in the Singapore sun, greenery can reduce the surface temperature of buildings by half, says Schick. The cooling effect will be increasingly ...

19 Sep 2018

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

Opinion / Energy

Renewables in Southeast Asia: Subsidies not required, thanks

...Climate Change (IPCC) issued a clarion call for the world’s governments to increase renewable energy capacity to 85 per cent of electricity by 2050 to urgently tackle climate change. The United Natio...

18 Mar 2019

Renewables in Southeast Asia: Subsidies not required, thanks

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

World at a crossroad on climate action

...cting because the economic case for low-carbon economic development is strong and becoming stronger. It can benefit people's health, improve efficiency and drive innovation. According to research cond...

29 Nov 2018

World at a crossroad on climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Half a degree warmer means a lot

...ctual record of warming to study, and we can see very clearly that a difference of 0.5˚C of warming really does matter. Erich Fischer, ETH Zurich The researchers matched temperature and climate recor...

5 Jul 2017

Half a degree warmer means a lot

News / Food & Agriculture

China should stop importing illegal timber—activists

...corruption that plague PNG’s forestry sector will only continue. Amid the political posturing around the trade war between the United States and China at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) S...

26 Nov 2018

China should stop importing illegal timber—activists

Removing fossil fuel subsidies would free substantial domestic public funds for other urgent uses, like alleviating extreme poverty.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Let's use carbon price dollars for sustainable development

...clear that carbon pricing could balance the scales of climate policy and the sustainable development agenda. Switching from fossil fuel subsidies to carbon pricing could make a key contribution to sus...

26 Sep 2018

Let's use carbon price dollars for sustainable development

News / Waste

Are bioplastics better for the environment than conventional plastics?

...conducted research that suggests that chemical mixtures present in biodegradable or bio-based plastic products can influence the metabolic activity of the bioluminescent bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri....

17 Jul 2019

Are bioplastics better for the environment than conventional plastics?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate impacts will seldom strike singly

...cause of carbon dioxide accretion in the atmosphere as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion; the first years in which particular locations around the world could feel the impact of irreversible cli...

21 Nov 2018

Climate impacts will seldom strike singly

Opinion / Policy & Finance

IPCC report signals the need to hold Japan's Abe to his word on climate

...coal as the biggest source of carbon in the atmosphere. All carbon reduction scenarios considered by the IPCC consistent with the goal of stopping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius call for a steep decl...

18 Oct 2018

IPCC report signals the need to hold Japan's Abe to his word on climate

News / Carbon & Climate

Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future

...could trigger catastrophic climate change, the most extreme, once-in-25-years heat waves could increase wet bulb temperatures now at around 31°C to 34.2°C. At 35°C, few humans could survive more than ...

7 Aug 2017

Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future

News / Carbon & Climate

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

...cean, swirling around Antarctica, and the Eastern Equatorial Pacific proceed at a different pace, and with changes in cloud cover which complicate the calculations. So Dr Proistosescu and his co-autho...

21 Jul 2017

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why 2°C of global warming is much worse for Australia than 1.5°C

...crease to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change." It is vital that we understand how climate extremes in Australia...

16 May 2017

Why 2°C of global warming is much worse for Australia than 1.5°C

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate strategy needs tailoring to poorest

...climate scientists have suspected for more than a decade: there can be no simple, one-size-fits-all solution to the twin challenges of climate change and human poverty. That catastrophic climate chang...

13 Aug 2018

Climate strategy needs tailoring to poorest

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky

...carbon benefits of any given practice on a given acre. The efficacy of some practices is also subject to continued scientific debate. Furthermore, changing conditions or management practices from year...

12 Sep 2018

6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky

News / Carbon & Climate

Asian temperatures could rise disastrously

...climate change could have serious consequences by forcing Asian temperatures drastically upwards; it could limit economic growth and reverse recent human advances for hundreds of millions, according t...

25 Jul 2017

Asian temperatures could rise disastrously

News / Policy & Finance

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands

...conomy is falling off a steep cliff as a consequence — a classic boom-and-bust scenario.” The country ranks 152nd out of 189 countries on the United Nations’ Human Development Index, and each citizen’...

24 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands

News / Carbon & Climate

Antarctica just shed an iceberg the size of Delaware

...ctica, blocking the glaciers that feed into it. All of the region’s ice shelves, including Larsens A, B, and C, impede the movement of Antarctic glaciers, which, if they float into the ocean, can hast...

14 Jul 2017

Antarctica just shed an iceberg the size of Delaware

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action key to ensuring safe migration

...co. As the abnormal becomes the new normal, scarcities, zero-sum competition, and mass displacements will become more common. “ "Climate change and environmental degradation are creating unacceptable...

23 Aug 2018

Climate action key to ensuring safe migration

Press Releases / Rabobank

India’s Ecozen wins inaugural Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia

...ch out and collaborate with like-minded businesses and organizations working towards tackling food loss. Further, it can also provide access to capital which would fast-track our product development a...

19 Nov 2018

India’s Ecozen wins inaugural Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia