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‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study

The new study develops the idea of “planetary boundaries“, first set out in an influential 2009 paper. The paper had defined a set of interlinked thresholds that it said would ensure a “safe operating...

6 Jun 2023

‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study

News / Water

Indigenous belief systems bolster mangrove reforestation in Palawan

...flood and erosion risks for coastal communities. This is especially important in the Philippines, where the occurrence of six super typhoons a year is now the “new normal” due to the changing climate....

9 Sep 2022

Indigenous belief systems bolster mangrove reforestation in Palawan

Press Releases / UOB Asset Management

Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

...flood damage puts a further US$1.2 trillion of capital stock at risk. Not surprisingly, Asian countries have seen an uptrend of government commitments and policy launches to address such threats. The...

18 Oct 2022

Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

News / Energy

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

...flood of demands from other villages, which the government would not be able to fulfill. “We were clear. We needed land in exchange for land. We did not even take part in the value assessment of the p...

13 May 2022

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

News / Policy & Finance

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

...flooding in recent weeks. "What we want is action now." “ We must not let a chaotic expansion of fossil fuels in the Congo Basin risk our precious tropical forests, biodiversity hotspots and the rig...

11 Nov 2022

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

Climate tech podcast with Steve Melhuish

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

'Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk': Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?

...floods, record wildfires. We're seeing an increasing frequency and ferocity of climate impacts on things like food security and migration. There's an increasing awareness to act – and act quickly. Now...

4 Jul 2024

'Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk': Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Think small to fight climate change

When applied to droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or other extreme weather events, the term “unprecedented” is getting old. In August, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release...

24 Nov 2021

Think small to fight climate change

News / Cities

Urban transformation is essential to overcoming the climate crisis and stemming urban poverty

...flooding increases. As cities sprawl, the flood-risk will spike, making millions of homes vulnerable. The Asian Development Bank reckons that the number of people living in flood plains in Asia is exp...

26 Mar 2021

Urban transformation is essential to overcoming the climate crisis and stemming urban poverty

News / Food & Agriculture

How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

...flooding. All can help counter the effects of rising temperatures and intensifying drought, experts say. Despite the benefits of multi-crop systems, a range of European and UK agricultural policies, s...

4 Nov 2022

How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

Opinion / Water

Can Mekong stingrays tell the Chinese dam story well?

...floods”. The visit also reportedly deepened their “understanding of Chinese efforts to ecological and environmental protection while developing hydropower.” Other more nuanced messages to boost the po...

7 Oct 2022

Can Mekong stingrays tell the Chinese dam story well?

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

No net zero without nature

...floods in China. Businesses increasingly have the tools to start addressing these kinds of problems. Recently, the Science Based Targets initiative released a methodology for targeting emissions relat...

18 Jul 2022

No net zero without nature

News / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

...floods. Indonesia banned palm oil exports for nearly four weeks in April and May as prices soared, pushed up by the shortage of sunflower oil from Ukraine. Palm oil is the world’s cheapest and most wi...

1 Jun 2022

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

News / Waste

Waste solutions can curb 84% of global trash emissions, but nations are neglecting waste in climate plans

...flooding, deter disease transmission, improve soil health, and deliver economic opportunities,” read the report released on Tuesday by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). Methane,...

5 Oct 2022

Waste solutions can curb 84% of global trash emissions, but nations are neglecting waste in climate plans

Opinion / Cities

Cities and the climate data gap

...flooding connected to sea-level rise. Some megacities and their sprawling peripheries are being reconsidered altogether, as in the case of Indonesia’s $34 billion plan to move its capital from Jakarta...

14 Jan 2022

Cities and the climate data gap

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The right way to fight global hunger

...floods are undermining farming in regions as different as the Horn of Africa and the Midwest of the United States. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent Sixth Assessment Report leaves...

15 Jun 2022

The right way to fight global hunger

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate impacts surge, UN science report to examine 'black swan' events

From devastating floods to destructive wildfires, the impacts of accelerating climate change are increasingly visible — and a report due out next month from the world's climate scientists will be "a w...

21 Jul 2021

As climate impacts surge, UN science report to examine 'black swan' events

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The IMF's misstep on climate finance

...floods and hurricanes can trigger financial instability in vulnerable countries as they wipe out capital stock and sources of foreign exchange. Likewise, countries dependent on fossil-fuel exports fac...

23 Dec 2021

The IMF's misstep on climate finance

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News / Carbon & Climate

'Too many forests lost because Indigenous peoples have had to fight alone': Malaysian activist Shaq Koyok

...flood in December. Without the forest, flooding will be a big problem for people living in the area. We need to get that message through to people. Southeast Asia is one of the most dangerous places i...

13 Sep 2022

'Too many forests lost because Indigenous peoples have had to fight alone': Malaysian activist Shaq Koyok

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Cutting methane emissions: different strokes for different folks

...flooded conditions in rice paddies, are not easy. Although AWD has been studied extensively, scaling up is an elusive task. In the Philippines, AWD adoption still hovered under 5 per cent of irrigated...

1 Sep 2022

Cutting methane emissions: different strokes for different folks

Sustainability innovations of the year 2022

News / Lifestyle

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2022

...Flood-proof city An architectural plan for the floating city in Busan, South Korea. Images: Oceanix and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group A city that floats is one way to protect the built environment from ri...

6 Dec 2022

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2022

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