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Boost to clean energy investment could drive 10 million new green jobs

...power proposals, with the potential for close to 439,000 new jobs, the report said. It noted total jobs could rise to about 625,000 when power storage, transmission and distribution are added. That wo...

8 Jul 2021

Boost to clean energy investment could drive 10 million new green jobs

Ria O'Hehir Australia Smart Energy Council

News / Energy

Australia’s Smart Energy Council adds Ria O’Hehir to its board

...power storage solutions, has appointed Greenbank's chief executive Ria O’Hehir to its nine-member board. O’Hehir, who has led Greenbank, an Australian environmental certificates trader, since 2020, ha...

13 Dec 2021

Australia’s Smart Energy Council adds Ria O’Hehir to its board

News / Water

Lahore’s new city plan beset by legal challenges and flood worries

...powers to RUDA to conduct land acquisition, as it states that all acquisition for RUDA will be considered to be in public interest”. The petitioners questioned the legality of forcible acquisition of ...

28 Dec 2022

Lahore’s new city plan beset by legal challenges and flood worries

Times when sustainability wasn't very funny this year

News / Carbon & Climate

11 times sustainability wasn't very funny in 2022

...power stations – is already feeling the financial pinch of climate change. Clearly relishing his role as a sustainable investing heretic, Kirk also dumped on an earlier presentation made by Sharon Tho...

30 Dec 2022

11 times sustainability wasn't very funny in 2022

News / Energy

India's solar energy boom fuels local struggle for green justice

...ads, contamination and daily explosions that bring utensils crashing down in homes near coal mines, solar parks work silently, the smooth roads leading to them clean and the air fresh. Yet for locals,...

17 Feb 2022

India's solar energy boom fuels local struggle for green justice

News / Energy

Explainer: the many shades of hydrogen

It’s the lightest gas in the world, and it has been bestowed with heavy significance due to climate change. Hydrogen burns when sparked, making it a promising fuel for power plants. While existing fue...

3 Feb 2022

Explainer: the many shades of hydrogen

News / Energy

A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia's coal policy

...power this year could help shift Asia's policy on the dirty fuel, analysts said on Monday. At a meeting in Britain, leaders of the powerful group of nations said they supported "a green revolution" an...

15 Jun 2021

A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia's coal policy

Men in Assam, India, preparing flood defences.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

...power structure than grant-based funding from big donors, while also more results-based than usual grant funding. These carbon finance projects come with delivery commitments and available legal reco...

30 Jan 2023

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

News / Carbon & Climate

Monsoon ‘pulls’ climate-changing chemicals into atmosphere

...powerful circulation of the monsoon and sample the chemical pollutants that are pulled upwards into the higher atmosphere where they affect rainfall over Asia in different ways — leading to both flood...

15 Aug 2022

Monsoon ‘pulls’ climate-changing chemicals into atmosphere

News / Cities

'Ecocide' resistance helped stoke people power revolution in Sri Lanka

...power movement against Sri Lanka’s deeply unpopular president were the country’s environmental activists. For Rajapaksa, whose term in office lasted less than three years and ended with a resignation ...

21 Jul 2022

'Ecocide' resistance helped stoke people power revolution in Sri Lanka

News / Carbon & Climate

Jane Goodall: If young people lose hope, that’s the end of humanity

...ads are pulled, the tapestry will hang in tatters, and the ecosystem will collapse,” Goodall added. Goodall was speaking on a panel with young environmentalists, including Singaporean Ernst Kwok, a l...

1 Dec 2021

Jane Goodall: If young people lose hope, that’s the end of humanity

News / Policy & Finance

2022: The year ESG took a beating

...power and say at these negotiations, and who does not,” said Alix Dietzel, senior lecturer in climate justice at the University of Bristol. Discarded bottles of Coca-Cola at the COP27 climate talks i...

14 Dec 2022

2022: The year ESG took a beating

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

‘We can’t keep asking more questions’: CDP acknowledges it needs to do more with less ESG data

...power. A lot of it is buying from Asia. So for us, we need to make sure that our team is well trained and really focused on how to move quickly and effectively through Asia, and I'm really excited abo...

31 Jul 2024

‘We can’t keep asking more questions’: CDP acknowledges it needs to do more with less ESG data

News / Policy & Finance

Asian banks — good at selling green finance, 'falling short' on decarbonisation efforts: report

...power. The International Energy Agency has warned that no new coal plants can be built if the world is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Only nine banks in the study have long-term net-zero commi...

30 Mar 2022

Asian banks — good at selling green finance, 'falling short' on decarbonisation efforts: report

News / Waste

Reuse and refill: A business model turning the tide on single-use plastic

...powered by natural gas or electricity) will arrive at their home within 48 hours and they can bring their own bottle to the truck to be refilled. Products carried under Refillable include handwash liq...

18 Nov 2022

Reuse and refill: A business model turning the tide on single-use plastic

News / Manufacturing

Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?

...power of consumers to demand sustainable products, as most do not know what palm oleochemicals are, and are unaware of their prevalence. Similarly, the lack of attention from governments and NGOs on t...

1 Sep 2022

Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?

News / Waste

In the wake of coup, gold mining boom is ravaging Myanmar

...powered pump to suck up sediment, then sends it through a sluice tray before adding mercury – which he handles barehanded – to extract gold. Naw estimates he is one of 1,000 people mining gold in Bham...

18 May 2022

In the wake of coup, gold mining boom is ravaging Myanmar

News / Water

Explained: How forest fires worsen flash floods in the Himalayas

...ads, tunnels, hydropower plants and other projects in mountain areas causes soil erosion and leads to debris being discarded on the hills, he says. In order to comprehensively address the problems of ...

19 Jan 2023

Explained: How forest fires worsen flash floods in the Himalayas

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

...power outage for 10 million households as coal producers were skipping out on their domestic sales to take advantage of higher coal prices overseas. “Did the problems go away? No,” Bhima said as quote...

27 Apr 2022

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

News / Cities

Cooperating to build deep-tech companies of the future

...power of data and computation to the physical world in fields such as artificial intelligence, advanced materials, biotechnology, robotics and drones, photonics and electronics, and quantum computing ...

26 Apr 2022

Cooperating to build deep-tech companies of the future

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