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News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat threat rises for megacities

...comes the extra hazard of humidity. With each 1°C rise in temperatures, the atmosphere’s capacity for moisture rises by 7 per cent. The scientists looked at data for 44 megacities − including Karachi ...

4 Apr 2017

Extreme heat threat rises for megacities

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Carbon pricing: The business case for low-carbon innovation

...chemical companies’ 2016 publicly disclosed GHG data on Scope 1 and 2 for a 2°C scenario. Chart is provided for illustrative purposes. Clearly, carbon pricing risk—the monetary value that accounts for...

8 Dec 2017

Carbon pricing: The business case for low-carbon innovation

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

...chnical disruption may occur too. Emerging data on the energy demands of some crypto-currencies – Bitcoin in particular – are staggering, and continued growth of these could eat up energy efficiency g...

8 Jan 2018

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

News / Policy & Finance

Wealthy countries can no longer pretend that climate change won’t affect them

...cts of climate change and environmental degradation will affect everybody—including their voters. With the deadly human cost of climate change now staring sceptical, apathetic world leaders in the fac...

20 Aug 2018

Wealthy countries can no longer pretend that climate change won’t affect them

News / Food & Agriculture

Disputes loom as cooler waters tempt fish

...climate change is driving them towards the poles. Many species, including the most commercially valuable such as cod and haddock, need water at specific temperatures to breed. An increase of 1°C in no...

21 Jun 2018

Disputes loom as cooler waters tempt fish

News / Energy

Brahmaputra boat clinic goes solar, powering up rural healthcare

...ctor till the boat clinic anchored near their village nearly a decade ago. Ashok Rao, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) Electrical emergency In India, about 55 percent of hous...

1 Nov 2017

Brahmaputra boat clinic goes solar, powering up rural healthcare

Opinion / Energy

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

...ciency. As a sector, energy efficiency is currently not an attractive enough for institutional investors in capital markets. There isn’t the critical mass of big energy efficiency projects to justify ...

13 Oct 2017

Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under new standards

...CS assessment, only 34 companies have committed to the HCS Approach methodology expected under the new RSPO criteria, while 25 have no HCS commitments currently in place. If these companies want to me...

19 Nov 2018

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under new standards

News / Carbon & Climate

Philippines' typhoon survivors to fossil fuel firms: please listen to us

...cific corporation has contributed to climate change in a way that amounts to a human rights breach and allocating responsibility for such breaches.Savaresi concluded that the Philippines commission ha...

19 Nov 2018

Philippines' typhoon survivors to fossil fuel firms: please listen to us

News / Carbon & Climate

7 countries that shook up our planet in 2018

...chnology, Science, Climate Change and Environment. A few months into office, she exercised her power to bust the country’s long dependency on fossil fuels, cancelling four independent energy contracts...

8 Dec 2018

7 countries that shook up our planet in 2018

News / Food & Agriculture

Ocean productivity at risk as climate warms

...could be in serious decline by 2300, thanks to climate change. The harvest from the North Atlantic could fall by almost two thirds. The decline in the Western Pacific could drop by 50 per cent. The o...

26 Mar 2018

Ocean productivity at risk as climate warms

News / Energy

Shell’s green plan underwhelms critics

...carbon footprint. And it is critical that our ambition covers the full energy life cycle, from production to consumption. We are committed to play our part.’’ “ Thousands of internal company document...

11 Dec 2017

Shell’s green plan underwhelms critics

News / Policy & Finance

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

...cover’ in accordance with modern scientific standards; b. Assess the exact forest cover at the district level; c. Involve local communities in afforestation projects and the selection of species of pl...

17 Apr 2019

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

News / Carbon & Climate

Humans cause growing heat wave danger

...could actually reduce harvests, especially in the tropics. “ It is remarkable that humanity overall is taking such a complacency on the threats that ongoing climate change is posing. Camilo Mora, geo...

13 Nov 2017

Humans cause growing heat wave danger

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Don't let President Trump distract from urgent action needed at climate talks

...ce of climate change. But without more of the US$100 billion a year committed in Cancun channelled to the local level, communities particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change will fall de...

7 Nov 2017

Don't let President Trump distract from urgent action needed at climate talks

News / Carbon & Climate

Land use can achieve 30 per cent of carbon cuts by 2030

...calculations. As usual with intricate, headache-inducing calculations that involve the global carbon budget, the researchers had to think about the economic costs of such steps, and factor in the most...

2 Nov 2017

Land use can achieve 30 per cent of carbon cuts by 2030

lady in colourful shirt planting rice in Ubud, Bali

News / Food & Agriculture

What the invisible nutrition crisis means for Asia

...ce of climate challenges. “[The findings] are a call to action for companies to collaborate and develop innovative, sustainable and scaleable solutions to address climate change, resource scarcity and...

10 Oct 2018

What the invisible nutrition crisis means for Asia

News / Food & Agriculture

The blockchain chickens bringing the future to free-range

...ce. Each bird wears an ankle bracelet that counts its steps as it clucks, squabbles and roams. The same blockchain ledger used in cryptocurrency transactions tracks information such as the chicken’s a...

1 Oct 2018

The blockchain chickens bringing the future to free-range

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 things that should happen at the Bonn climate talks but probably won’t

...climate change. This year’s Conference of the Parties (the 23rd, hence COP23) to the United Nations climate treaty in Bonn, Germany, is not expected to be a deal-clinching, make-or-break one like Pari...

8 Nov 2017

5 things that should happen at the Bonn climate talks but probably won’t

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