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News / Carbon & Climate

Global push urged for Covid-19 vaccine could help climate too

...tems are to unexpected threats could help drive appetite for change. "There's an opportunity here not to talk about what we have to have less of (to deal with climate change) but how we can create a m...

18 May 2020

Global push urged for Covid-19 vaccine could help climate too

News / Carbon & Climate

Pacific island of Nauru presses UN to approve deep-sea mining

...to proceed. "I think that is going to be a key question—is there enough baseline data? The ISA must take into account their environmental mandate. The ISA is fully entitled to reject an application fo...

30 Jun 2021

Pacific island of Nauru presses UN to approve deep-sea mining

News / Transport

An 'elite minority' is responsible for most aviation pollution, and should be penalised for it, says NGO

...te charity based in the United Kingdom. The report, which collated data from the top 26 countries that produce the highest aviation emissions, shows that most air travel, even within the richest of ...

9 Apr 2021

An 'elite minority' is responsible for most aviation pollution, and should be penalised for it, says NGO

Nicole Han, 350.org, Asia Pacific communications manager

News / Carbon & Climate

Nicole Han moves from Vital Strategies to climate action group 350.org to lead Asia Pacific communications

...t and has particularly devastated the most vulnerable populations. Climate science tells us that if we don't limit the warming of the Earth, the life of future generations will be similarly affected. ...

12 Oct 2020

Nicole Han moves from Vital Strategies to climate action group 350.org to lead Asia Pacific communications

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Carbon dioxide removal mustn't become get-out-of-jail-free cards for corporate polluters

...the amount of global electricity that is currently generated and heat equivalent to half of all energy consumption. What do we say? Prevention in the first place is better than attempting to cure, and...

22 Jan 2021

Carbon dioxide removal mustn't become get-out-of-jail-free cards for corporate polluters

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Can plant-based diets save the planet?

...the planet. He recently gave a TedTalk on how to create the perfect farm — a nature-positive food system. Tune in as we talk about: Is being flexible the best way to eat? Why changing diets isn't tha...

27 Oct 2020

Can plant-based diets save the planet?

News / Policy & Finance

More nature, more jobs? Green investment seen as driver of coronavirus recovery

...t and energy minister, Costa Rica About half of the world's economy is built on activities that currently hurt nature, the report noted. But shifts are necessary, Perry said, and the benefits of achi...

17 Jul 2020

More nature, more jobs? Green investment seen as driver of coronavirus recovery

Global rainforest loss 'relentless' in 2020, but SE Asia offers hope

News / Carbon & Climate

Global rainforest loss 'relentless' in 2020, but Southeast Asia offers hope

...to cut natural forest loss by at least half by 2020 was not met. The "relentless pace" of deforestation across the tropics is "definitely something we're worried about", Weisse told the Thomson Reuter...

1 Apr 2021

Global rainforest loss 'relentless' in 2020, but Southeast Asia offers hope

News / Policy & Finance

Covid-19: Should Biden help vaccinate the world?

...ty bioethicist and vaccine policy expert. "The harder questions are the 'how questions.' That's when things start to get more complex." Fundraising The easiest way for the United States to contribute...

27 Apr 2021

Covid-19: Should Biden help vaccinate the world?

News / Policy & Finance

Global charities team up on coronavirus lifeline for social entrepreneurs

...t and lobbying governments to support their local sectors are among the alliance's other aims. As part of the initiative, Duke University in the United States has created a searchable database with in...

6 May 2020

Global charities team up on coronavirus lifeline for social entrepreneurs

News / Policy & Finance

Pandemic pushes world's biggest jobs programme to brink in rural India

...tre for Employment Studies at research organisation Institute for Human Development. The rural development ministry did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but officials of five states that ...

11 Sep 2020

Pandemic pushes world's biggest jobs programme to brink in rural India

News / Energy

A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia's coal policy

...tions said they supported "a green revolution" and committed to stop by the end of 2021 new overseas funding for coal-fired plants that are not fitted with technology to reduce their planet-warming ca...

15 Jun 2021

A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia's coal policy

People using ATM machines in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

Green finance: Will banks tell us how they spend our money?

...their customers' money to make investments in funds linked to issues such as climate change, deforestation and human rights abuses—and they do not inform their customers that they're doing so. While s...

21 Aug 2020

Green finance: Will banks tell us how they spend our money?

Plastic awaits recycling in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Alvaro Aguilar

News / Waste

Are big brands failing in their commitments to use recycled plastic?

...t the sort of used plastic they're prepared to buy, he noted. "The companies in the market for recycled plastic are fighting over PET [polyethylene terephthalate] bottles. But the problem is that the...

30 Oct 2020

Are big brands failing in their commitments to use recycled plastic?

Nayong Pilipino Foundation Covid vaccine facility

News / Cities

Manila’s mega Covid-19 vaccination site is a threat to urban forest and access to vaccines, activists say

...t construction has not started amid a standoff between the NPF and the taskforce. The NPF, an autonomous government corporation that sits under the department of tourism, stated on 6 May that the bui...

17 May 2021

Manila’s mega Covid-19 vaccination site is a threat to urban forest and access to vaccines, activists say

News / Energy

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

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

21 Apr 2020

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

A woman of the Dayak Iban tribe in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

'Expertise' on climate crisis dominated by West, too few Asian and African voices, say just transition activists

...tart telling them what to do to save them. Firstly, these communities may not want to lead the same lives as you," she said. "They have their own ways of life that they are true to. We must learn to r...

12 Apr 2021

'Expertise' on climate crisis dominated by West, too few Asian and African voices, say just transition activists

News / Energy

Here's how you can track your carbon footprint and help keep emissions low

...than four times the target to maintain a sustainable footprint. To put this figure into context, more than 400 rain trees are required to absorb this impact on the environment. The carbon footprint c...

5 May 2020

Here's how you can track your carbon footprint and help keep emissions low

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: biodiversity offsets and putting a price-tag on nature

...t on the activities that cause adverse impacts to natural habitats. The offsets are based on the premise that impacts from development can be compensated – on the provision that sufficient habitat can...

2 Jun 2021

Explainer: biodiversity offsets and putting a price-tag on nature

News / Cities

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

...ties from extreme heat draw less attention, she added. "If there's flooding and people die, it's immediately in the news. But if they die due to extreme heat it's harder to get attention - people thin...

13 Feb 2020

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

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