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Fish skeleton at Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is ecocide?

...power plants, citing the threat of a nuclear explosion. However, domestic enforcement of ecocide laws is limited, with few reports of successful prosecutions since the 1990s. This is why some activist...

4 Aug 2022

Explainer: What is ecocide?

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s move to increase coal supplies won’t affect decarbonisation

...power shortages experienced in several provinces last year. By September 2021, rises in coal prices meant costs for coal power generators had rocketed while the prices paid by the grid were fixed. Pow...

21 Jul 2022

China’s move to increase coal supplies won’t affect decarbonisation

News / Energy

Will the fossil energy crisis make renewables more popular?

...power and energy storage firm Maoneng. “Does the price of offshore wind change when the price of LNG changes or the price of coal changes? No, there's no change and this brings predictability to power...

27 Jan 2022

Will the fossil energy crisis make renewables more popular?

News / Energy

Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights

...power outages during the heatwave, and one in three experienced power outages that were over two hours long. Data from the national load dispatch centre (POSOCO) records power shortages in various sta...

6 May 2022

Why India’s heatwave has turned out the lights

News / Carbon & Climate

Low-carbon or greenwash? Award for Penang South Islands mega project criticised for setting ‘dangerous precedent’

...powered public transportation. Some 405 acres of the reclaimed land have also been reserved to create a network of public parks, water canals, floodplains and wetlands. Of these, the transportation i...

12 Apr 2023

Low-carbon or greenwash? Award for Penang South Islands mega project criticised for setting ‘dangerous precedent’

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COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

...power to 600 million Africans who lack access to electricity, at least through this decade. Lobbyists on the rise The demonstration coincided with new research released by human rights groups showing ...

11 Nov 2022

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

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G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

...power generation mix increased in all G20 countries between 2016 and 2020. The strongest increases were in the UK (+67 per cent), Japan (+48 per cent) and Mexico (+40 per cent). The lowest increases, ...

31 Oct 2022

G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

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Indian workers suffer as heat waves turn factories into 'furnaces'

...power demand. With a demand-supply gap for electricity widening through the heat waves, many states are giving preference to residential consumers, imposing longer power cuts in industrial hubs. Many ...

10 Jun 2022

Indian workers suffer as heat waves turn factories into 'furnaces'

News / Cities

Indonesia's sinking villages look to nature to restore mangroves

...power to convert degraded aquaculture ponds into green-belts and sedimentation basins to help mangroves regrow naturally and boost fish stocks. Indonesia is home to the world's largest area of mangrov...

19 Sep 2022

Indonesia's sinking villages look to nature to restore mangroves

News / Cities

Adapting China to extreme weather

...power grids so they can better transmit power in both directions, which would improve emergency cross-provincial power supply; and encouraging the use of gas-fired power generation to ensure stable su...

20 Oct 2022

Adapting China to extreme weather

News / Energy

Controversial Mekong dam in Laos faces economic and regulatory hurdles

...power sector – a strategic economic pillar that experts say is exacting a steep environmental cost. Financial and logistical information around development of the Phou Ngoy dam, as with other hydropow...

9 Jan 2023

Controversial Mekong dam in Laos faces economic and regulatory hurdles

News / Waste

Oil interests impede plastic treaty progress

...power to throw out a majority decision. The issue remains unresolved. Now, Muffett fears that without a clear way to solve disagreements, nations might shy away from disputes over controversial elemen...

8 Dec 2023

Oil interests impede plastic treaty progress

News / Carbon & Climate

Look beyond popular areas for green innovations: investors

...power technology, which once matured, became a mainstream energy source. “The tricky part is, what time frame are we looking at?” she added, noting that solar power took 30 years to become widely adop...

17 Jan 2022

News / Transport

No just transition for drivers in Philippines’ electric jeepney ambitions, say transport experts

...powered by low-emission Euro 4 engines, or produce no emissions at all, like electric jeepneys. Jeepneys, an iconic mode of public transport based on old US military jeeps, are a crucial part of the ...

8 Mar 2023

No just transition for drivers in Philippines’ electric jeepney ambitions, say transport experts

News / Energy

Keeping digitalisation green: APAC governments hold key to unlocking renewables’ vast potential

...power options. Ken Haig, who leads Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s energy and environment policy engagement efforts, says governments in the region can encourage corporate renewable investments by settin...

5 Aug 2022

Keeping digitalisation green: APAC governments hold key to unlocking renewables’ vast potential

News / Policy & Finance

Roundtable: The Belt and Road at 10

...power through BRI was a typical industrial policy intervention implemented via cutting off financing. As we move into the second decade of the BRI, China’s stated intention of increasing support for g...

14 Sep 2023

Roundtable: The Belt and Road at 10

News / Carbon & Climate

By-product hydrogen: a bridge to a green hydrogen economy?

...power green enough? Using hydrogen power produces water but no carbon, making it clean and renewable. But manufacturing the gas is not necessarily carbon free. Hydrogen has various names depending on ...

12 Oct 2022

By-product hydrogen: a bridge to a green hydrogen economy?

News / Policy & Finance

As world's poor face 'compounding crises', what could curb risks?

...ads the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) work on energy, climate and the environment. He said that climate change, development and humanitarian spending by governments is incre...

22 May 2023

As world's poor face 'compounding crises', what could curb risks?

News / Policy & Finance

Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

...adsides, first battling scorching summer heat with little shade - and now needing protection to deal with the winter cold, she said. But just a fifth of an $800-million UN aid appeal for the country h...

15 Nov 2022

Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

News / Carbon & Climate

In pictures: COP27

...power in April amid political instability, following a vote of no confidence against his predecessor Imran Khan, who had since been calling for early elections and was wounded by gunmen on a rally ear...

16 Nov 2022

In pictures: COP27

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