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7 insane ideas to stop climate change

Desperate times call for desperate measures. With atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases reaching an all-time high and the United Nations warning that this is the last generation that can stop climat...

18 Dec 2018

7 insane ideas to stop climate change

News / Green Buildings

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

Imagine going to a bank to ask for your energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly building to be refinanced through a green bond, only to be told by the banker that there would be no financial return...

2 Oct 2018

Green bonds and green buildings—the perfect match?

News / Food & Agriculture

Executives of palm oil giant Wilmar resign a week after Greenpeace report

The co-founder of the world’s largest palm oil trading company Wilmar International, Martua Sitorus, and Hendri Saksti, Wilmar’s country head for Indonesia, have resigned. The decision was announced o...

5 Jul 2018

Executives of palm oil giant Wilmar resign a week after Greenpeace report

Opinion / Cities

5 ways civil society organisations can help advance the SDGs

“Leave no one behind” has been the rallying cry of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which feature a cross-cutting focus on inclusiveness and addressing inequalities. This collective 2030 Agen...

27 Sep 2018

5 ways civil society organisations can help advance the SDGs

News / Carbon & Climate

Despite scaling down targets and tripling funds, Indonesia still short of reforestation goal

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono began his first term as president of Indonesia in 2004 with a pledge to plant a million trees a year, in an effort to make up for the massive deforestation the country had exp...

28 Jan 2019

Despite scaling down targets and tripling funds, Indonesia still short of reforestation goal

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

Dinesh de Alwis has lived all his life in Ratmalana, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. When he was young, he remembers, he would rush outside every day at 4 p.m., to play with friends after sch...

30 Jul 2018

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

News / Policy & Finance

Cost of fossil fuel investment is too high

European and Chinese scientists have identified a simple new way to become poor: fossil fuel investment. Not only could it leave you without a penny to your name. It could perhaps precipitate a global...

13 Jun 2018

Cost of fossil fuel investment is too high

News / Cities

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

Muddy carpets and soaked furniture lay in moldering piles on the streets of this state capital. It was Sunday morning, Oct. 29, 2017. Eight days earlier, torrents of water had poured off the steep slo...

27 Jul 2018

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

News / Policy & Finance

Green financing in Asia: False momentum or real impact?

While green investments have been growing globally and certainly in Asia, in the wider finance universe it has been more talk than action, said panelists at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore...

17 Oct 2018

Green financing in Asia: False momentum or real impact?

Press Releases / StarHub

Best Denki, COURTS, Gain City and Harvey Norman to join RENEW and to place e-waste recycling bins in their retail stores

Singapore, 5 June 2018 – Four major electronics retailers - Best Denki, COURTS, Gain City and Harvey Norman have joined DHL, StarHub and TES’ RENEW programme to further encourage...

5 Jun 2018

Best Denki, COURTS, Gain City and Harvey Norman to join RENEW and to place e-waste recycling bins in their retail stores

A farmer in India ploughs his field with some help

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

5 ways India must help its farmers face the threat of climate change

Climate change could hurt farmers’ income by up to 20-25 per cent in the medium term, according to the Indian government’s latest annual economic survey. Extreme weather events, temperature rise and l...

20 Feb 2018

5 ways India must help its farmers face the threat of climate change

Polish firefighers battle the blaze in Karbole, Sweden

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

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

It has taken hundreds of heat-related deaths across the northern hemisphere for climate change to make global headlines. In Japan, at least 80 people have died and thousands have been hospitalized as ...

20 Aug 2018

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

News / Food & Agriculture

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

British supermarket chain Iceland said on Monday it would remove palm oil from its own-brand food by the end of 2018 as part of efforts to stem deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia and help species...

16 Apr 2018

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

News / Food & Agriculture

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and shutter his business. He blamed large-scale ...

12 Oct 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

COP 23: On the road to somewhere

Another annual climate change conference has just come to an end. This is the second since the landmark Paris Agreement, the thirteenth since the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and the twenty thir...

27 Nov 2017

COP 23: On the road to somewhere

Opinion / Policy & Finance

‘Ghost gear’ poses grave threat to marine wildlife and food security

Since the world has begun to prioritise cleaning up ocean plastic, many alternatives to single-use consumer products have emerged: reusable shopping bags, metal coffee mugs and bottles, and biodegrada...

31 Oct 2018

‘Ghost gear’ poses grave threat to marine wildlife and food security

A speedboat cruises down a waterway in the Marshall Islands

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

COP24: The biggest immediate opportunity for countries to step up climate action

The alarming report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this month made it crystal clear that every country, business and person in the world will need to step up ...

30 Oct 2018

COP24: The biggest immediate opportunity for countries to step up climate action

News / Policy & Finance

International investors eye China’s green bonds

China issued one third of the world’s green bonds in 2017 and has quickly become a world leader in green finance, a relatively new area that focuses on money products related to sustainable business. ...

8 Feb 2018

International investors eye China’s green bonds

News / Policy & Finance

Ben & Jerry's and 350.org campaign for a freeze on fossil fuel investments

American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has partnered with climate activism group 350.org Australia to launch a campaign to freeze fossil fuels investments, by encouraging Australians to lobby thei...

2 May 2018

Ben & Jerry's and 350.org campaign for a freeze on fossil fuel investments

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