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Can new tech make carbon offsets trustworthy?

...and damage local communities or biodiversity. Much work is underway to rectify this. For example, a raft of standards and guidance is due this year, to define best practice and improve credibility in ...

8 Aug 2023

Can new tech make carbon offsets trustworthy?

News / Water

Traditional building techniques could mitigate flood damage in Assam

...iated with a different group. The Mising are recognised as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian constitution, indicating a history of socio-economic marginalisation. More privileged communities can be r...

25 Aug 2022

Traditional building techniques could mitigate flood damage in Assam

News / Transport

EV race: The battle for dominance looks set to intensify as startups sniff new territory

...ished original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with decades of engineering experience behind them. India’s transport minister Nitin Gadkari made note of this, too, in a recent interaction with the medi...

31 Mar 2023

EV race: The battle for dominance looks set to intensify as startups sniff new territory

Coal power plant in Jepara, central Java, Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Can ‘transition credits’ make Asia’s early coal phase-out more economically viable?

...ing carbon tax liabilities in any jurisdication. Tan revealed that MAS is currently working with the city-state's National Climate Change Secretariat and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Enviro...

3 Oct 2023

Can ‘transition credits’ make Asia’s early coal phase-out more economically viable?

News / Food & Agriculture

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

...it 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), while rainfall is dwindling, along with water levels in the two main rivers that irrigate most of its farmlands. Demand for water is growing while supplies dwindle, wor...

25 Nov 2022

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...its share of the global population, its ability to pay to reduce emissions and its historic responsibility for causing climate change. Finnish environment minister Emma Kari told Climate Home it was “...

8 Apr 2024

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

News / Cities

What Lula's victory in Brazil could mean for climate change

...inutes into his victory speech. "We will resume monitoring and surveillance of the Amazon, and fight any and all illegal activity," said Lula, promising "sustainable development of communities livin...

4 Nov 2022

What Lula's victory in Brazil could mean for climate change

News / Corporate Responsibility

How Asian co-operatives are championing sustainable development

...ith the aim of helping low-income earners in Malaysia gain access to capital. In addition to providing financial services for the general public, Bank Rakyat offers inclusive Islamic banking faciliti...

30 Jun 2023

How Asian co-operatives are championing sustainable development

News / Policy & Finance

Global stocktake highlights urgent need for inclusive policymaking

...ists 17 key findings, across chapters on (i) context; (ii) mitigation, including response measures; (iii) adaptation, including loss and damage; and (iv) means of implementation and support and financ...

15 Sep 2023

Global stocktake highlights urgent need for inclusive policymaking

News / Carbon & Climate

Why progress beats perfection in safeguarding nature and biodiversity among Asean businesses

...ing the mining industry in countries such as Indonesia and Australia, considering factors like deforestation and community rights. “When allocating capital and channeling funding, financial instituti...

7 May 2024

Why progress beats perfection in safeguarding nature and biodiversity among Asean businesses

News / Policy & Finance

Can parametric insurance change the game in climate disasters?

...id Darin Dennis with the Utah Division of Risk Management. Are parametric models more sustainable as insurance claims rise? Parametric insurance may not be suited to replacing traditional indemnity in...

15 Jun 2023

Can parametric insurance change the game in climate disasters?

News / Lifestyle

Zero-waste brands stir up India’s beauty and personal care industry

...inable packaging options and wider availability of recycling facilities. Also, companies say, it is important to separate myths from science, and take a holistic lifecycle and carbon footprint view. ...

27 Jan 2023

Zero-waste brands stir up India’s beauty and personal care industry

Press Releases / Asian Development Bank (ADB)

ADB appoints new country director for the Philippines

...ill bring with him extensive operational experience in designing and implementing programs and projects spanning 10 countries in Southeast Asia and East Asia. He has sectoral proficiency in the agricu...

13 Jun 2023

ADB appoints new country director for the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

SOS! Scientists sound climate alarm with exclamation mark

...ictly limiting its use, fearing it comes across as self-defeating shrieking. The style guide for the respected journal Science says: "The exclamation point is rarely justified in scientific writing ex...

24 Aug 2022

SOS! Scientists sound climate alarm with exclamation mark

News / Policy & Finance

No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain

...ily life too hard. "We realised that if we do not jump ship (soon) it was going to be difficult for us (to leave the country)." From Tunisia to Haiti to Pakistan, spiralling inflation is driving milli...

23 Aug 2022

No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain

News / Cities

Adapting China to extreme weather

...ion, and the International Institute of Green Finance at Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics. After carrying out case studies of water-saving irrigation facilities in Ningxia, sponge...

20 Oct 2022

Adapting China to extreme weather

News / Lifestyle

What will King Charles's reign mean for climate action?

...is new role will now limit his activism. "It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply," he said in a televised a...

12 Sep 2022

What will King Charles's reign mean for climate action?

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition

...imposing a transition would risk the widespread stranding of these assets. Technological transition itself may be tricky but achieving it while maintaining socio-economic stability and simultane...

8 Feb 2024

Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition

News / Cities

Outcry forces Cambodian government to halt Phnom Tamao forest development

...ion in Cambodia,” he said. “It is the only remaining area of forest in Takeo and Kandal provinces and holds a great deal of wildlife, including many sambar deer [Rusa unicolor], which are becoming inc...

15 Aug 2022

Outcry forces Cambodian government to halt Phnom Tamao forest development

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News / Cities

City of Sydney moves to ban fossil fuel advertising

...iticians debate how to curb carbon emissions. Some media publications, including British newspaper The Guardian and trade title British Medical Journal, have stopped accepting fossil fuel advertising.

22 Aug 2022

City of Sydney moves to ban fossil fuel advertising

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