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Explained: Climate change, earthquakes and hydropower in the Himalayas

...power dams, due to the effects of large reservoirs and what is called reservoir-induced seismicity (RIS). This refers to the pressure created by water in a large reservoir on or near a fault line lead...

12 May 2023

Explained: Climate change, earthquakes and hydropower in the Himalayas

News / Policy & Finance

What is China’s role at the Paris summit for a new global financial pact?

...ads of state and government are expected to attend the event, including Mia Mottley, Barbados’s prime minister, who has been central to putting financial reform on the climate agenda, Ali Bongo Ondimb...

20 Jun 2023

What is China’s role at the Paris summit for a new global financial pact?

Press Releases / International Finance Corporation

IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh

...power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of global compounding crises. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. About ...

19 Dec 2022

IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh

News / Policy & Finance

COP27: Amid compromises, world finds solace in loss and damage breakthrough

...power and retire inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Also copied from COP26 were mentions of keeping global warming well below 2°C and pursuing efforts towards 1.5°C. The plan for a "mitigation work pr...

21 Nov 2022

COP27: Amid compromises, world finds solace in loss and damage breakthrough

News / Food & Agriculture

Revitalising coconut farming in Southeast Asia

...ads the Indonesian Association for Coconut Product Manufacturers. At his family’s house, their cooking oil came from coconut grown almost entirely by smallholder farmers. At local markets, the farmers...

24 Jul 2023

Revitalising coconut farming in Southeast Asia

News / Waste

China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’

...ads in toothpaste, plasticisers in food packaging, fire retardants in televisions, and even antibacterials in soap. Their use and release into the environment can cause long-term negative effects and ...

12 Aug 2022

China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’

News / Water

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

...power, fears are growing over the unseasonal flooding and droughts they cause - and for the future of Southeast Asia's longest river, which is now being shaped by powerful state-backed corporations. L...

21 Mar 2023

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

News / Carbon & Climate

Trapping CO2 from the air is a costly bet to beat climate change — but money is flowing in anyway

...power generation – in a process generally known as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) – can work with CO₂ concentrations of up to 20 per cent. As a result, the IEA estimates that even the ...

18 May 2022

Trapping CO2 from the air is a costly bet to beat climate change — but money is flowing in anyway

News / Energy

EVs from Everest? Chinese lithium find in Himalayas raises alarm over water

The recent discovery near Mount Everest of “super large” deposits of lithium, the key element in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has raised concerns over the fate of water resources in the r...

9 Mar 2022

EVs from Everest? Chinese lithium find in Himalayas raises alarm over water

News / Carbon & Climate

How will Pakistan stay cool while keeping emissions in check?

...powerful greenhouse gases that warm the Earth between 140 and 11,700 times more than carbon dioxide. Refrigeration and air conditioning account for around 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – thr...

15 Mar 2022

How will Pakistan stay cool while keeping emissions in check?

News / Carbon & Climate

Latest IPCC report prescribes renewables and nature-based solutions as key climate antidotes

...power, demand an end to all fossil fuel subsidies." According to the report, of the top five climate solutions, only reforestation will require a carbon price higher than US$100 a tonne for it to reac...

5 Apr 2022

Latest IPCC report prescribes renewables and nature-based solutions as key climate antidotes

News / Policy & Finance

Internet freedom crackdowns across Asia target citizens, Big Tech

...powerful, too influential," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 'Draconian' timeframe More than three-quarters of the world's over 4.5 billion internet users live in countries where authorities...

3 Jan 2023

Internet freedom crackdowns across Asia target citizens, Big Tech

Philippine National Oil Company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub project in Batangas

News / Energy

'Crisis in the making': new report throws doubt on feasibility of Asia's gas projects

...power and close to 20 million tonnes per year of LNG import capacities were deemed viable. Four import terminals and a gas plant received go-aheads from the government to be built this year. The repor...

21 Dec 2021

'Crisis in the making': new report throws doubt on feasibility of Asia's gas projects

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions

...power that has been advised to set a net-negative target is the EU. In advice published ahead of a recommendation for a new EU 2040 target in February, the bloc’s science advisers said that the EU co...

8 Apr 2024

Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions

News / Policy & Finance

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

...power in Texas, United States was the third costliest calamity at over US$30 billion, and fifth most fatal, claiming 235 lives. Munich Re added that earthquakes and volcanoes should also be taken seri...

11 Jan 2022

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

Opinion / Energy

Historic new deal puts emissions reduction at the heart of Australia’s energy sector

...power system. But Friday’s deal means consideration of emissions would no longer be optional for the commission. The traditional principles of efficiency and reliability are, of course, still crucial ...

15 Aug 2022

Historic new deal puts emissions reduction at the heart of Australia’s energy sector

South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation (SLTEC) coal facility in Calaca, Batangas

News / Carbon & Climate

Ayala Corp sets net zero target by 2050

...power arm AC Energy will begin supplying solar power to commercial properties of real estate subsidiary Ayala Land until 2050. Electricity will be sourced from AC Energy’s 120 megawatt (MW) solar plan...

21 Oct 2021

Ayala Corp sets net zero target by 2050

News / Policy & Finance

Indian droughts and cyclones fuel trafficking fears for climate migrants

...power to negotiate wages or choose the type of work. A Covid helpline started by Jharkhand's government to assist migrant workers stranded in other states responded to almost 1 million calls from Marc...

30 May 2022

Indian droughts and cyclones fuel trafficking fears for climate migrants

News / Policy & Finance

'Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals

...Power of small protected areas Previous research has looked at global cropland expansion in large protected areas since 1990, but the new study also focuses on smaller areas of at least 0.09 hectares...

21 Apr 2023

'Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals

News / Cities

'Start my life from zero': poor Pakistanis face heavy cost of floods

...ads destroyed and over 700,000 livestock gone. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is scheduled to travel to hard-hit areas of the country this week to see the devastation from what he has termed "a...

7 Sep 2022

'Start my life from zero': poor Pakistanis face heavy cost of floods

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