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Managing climate-friendly and energy-efficient buildings

News / Green Buildings

Nurturing greener tenants for more sustainable buildings

...flooding and other physical climate risks. As governments aim to meet ambitious climate goals, they will increasingly look to the building sector to reduce its impact on the environment. “ By acceler...

21 Mar 2022

Nurturing greener tenants for more sustainable buildings

Top down view of Hong Kong's streets at night

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Banks prepare for climate risk management

...floods in Europe, India, Africa and China to spur them to action. Before these most recent manifestations of climate change, consultations and drafting of climate risk management frameworks have conti...

16 Aug 2021

Banks prepare for climate risk management

Malaysian fisherman planting mangrove saplings

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia's mangrove-planting fishermen stumble at nature finance hurdle

...flooding and help shore up food security. Despite their benefits, they are in decline, with the world's mangrove area decreasing by just over 1 million hectares between 1990 and 2020, although the rat...

25 Jan 2022

Malaysia's mangrove-planting fishermen stumble at nature finance hurdle

News / Policy & Finance

COP26 climate talks 'difficult' without promised finance, says UN fund head

...floods and cyclones in East Timor. If they all get the green light, the fund will have used up its available resources before COP26. Glemarec joked that the GCF would have "just enough money in our ba...

1 Oct 2021

COP26 climate talks 'difficult' without promised finance, says UN fund head

News / Food & Agriculture

Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN report

...floods, and locust attacks. According to the report, “continuing with support-as-usual will worsen the triple planetary crisis and ultimately harm human well-being.” Meeting the goals of the Paris A...

15 Sep 2021

Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN report

News / Carbon & Climate

'Page views are not real impact': Mongabay founder Rhett Butler

...floods because of upstream deforestation – that's pretty depressing and might not find a big audience. But even if it doesn't find a big audience, it is still an important topic to report on. These st...

5 Oct 2022

'Page views are not real impact': Mongabay founder Rhett Butler

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

News / Cities

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

...floods in 2010 that they realised just how much. That year, flooding from the Ing river which often spills its banks in the annual rainy season, was particularly severe, inundating several villages. B...

30 Sep 2020

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

Deforested terrain Guangxi Zhuang, China

News / Carbon & Climate

Forest loss in Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace: Report

...flooding in lower areas. It also exacerbates soil erosion and runoff, causing rivers to clog with silt and agricultural pollutants, reducing downstream water quality and availability. In 2018, many pe...

1 Jul 2021

Forest loss in Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace: Report

A Bohemian waxwing eating mountain ash berries. Lisa Hupp, USFWS/Flickr

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble adapting to climate change

...floods and erosion. There are ways to increase seed dispersal. Making sure patches of similar habitats are connected helps species move among them. Restoring populations of important seed dispersers, ...

17 Jan 2022

With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble adapting to climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Women on storm-hit Philippine island spearhead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

...flooding, warranting the need to conserve its mangroves, Ubani said. “Mangrove belts are there to serve as natural barriers so the sea won’t slowly eat up the land,” she said. While the proposal is we...

8 Oct 2021

Women on storm-hit Philippine island spearhead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Labourers work at a construction site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

News / Cities

Flood risk for 1 million in Phnom Penh as wetlands destroyed

...floods, particularly in the rainy season from June to October. Lakes and wetlands such as floodplains, mangroves and marshes regulate water flow, minimise flooding, purify water and replenish groundwa...

30 Jul 2020

Flood risk for 1 million in Phnom Penh as wetlands destroyed

News / Energy

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023

...flood irrigation”. The article also warned that excessive new coal power capacity and a corresponding decline in utilisation rates would make it harder for China to achieve its climate goals. These hi...

16 May 2023

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023

News / Food & Agriculture

Nepal's blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather

...flooding and drought as well as pesticides and accident. The government pays up to 80 per cent of the premium, and the payouts cover 90 per cent of the value of any honey shortfall. But few beekeepers...

14 Jan 2022

Nepal's blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather

Opinion / Water

How droughts and floods lead to migration — and 7 things governments can do to help

...flooding, as in Bangladesh and small island developing states, and other extremes like cyclones. Addressing water-driven migration will require research that crosses borders and research boundaries. A...

23 Mar 2021

How droughts and floods lead to migration — and 7 things governments can do to help

News / Green Buildings

Five years after the earthquake, can Nepal rebuild sustainably?

...floods, millions of families in Nepal live in difficult conditions. Safe shelter is a privilege that many have yet to enjoy since more than 800,000 homes were destroyed by the disaster. For rural c...

14 Jan 2021

Five years after the earthquake, can Nepal rebuild sustainably?

Pulangi River in Bukidnon, Malaybalay in Mindanao, Philippines

News / Energy

Slipshod checks raise flood risk for China-Philippines dam

...flood buffer if there is heavy rainfall upstream by absorbing the flood wave, though only if the reservoir is not already full. Neither the Philippines’ Environmental Management Bureau nor PHC respond...

24 Nov 2020

Slipshod checks raise flood risk for China-Philippines dam

News / Water

New platform aims to reveal dam and climate impacts on the Mekong

...flooding and do not negatively affect the lower Mekong. In October, China agreed to release year-round water data through the Mekong River Commission from two hydropower stations. “The positive benef...

17 Mar 2021

New platform aims to reveal dam and climate impacts on the Mekong

News / Carbon & Climate

'Terrifying' warming predicted as country climate vows fail to add up

...floods and wildfires remind us that the impacts of climate change are already being felt across the world but lower-income countries have fewer resources to help them cope," she added. Efforts to tran...

15 Oct 2021

'Terrifying' warming predicted as country climate vows fail to add up

News / Policy & Finance

Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal

...floods — be studied and then presented at COP27 next year. That ask has not been included in the decision texts so far. Vanessa Nakate, a young Ugandan climate activist, also called for a separate fun...

11 Nov 2021

Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal

Ubon Chansoi and her daughter Sunee Thongwong

News / Food & Agriculture

Thai farmers fear loss of land to mega industrial zone

...flooding, more coastal erosion, and waste being dumped, and we are worried it will get worse and affect the land and water even more," said Sarayut, who has taken the lead in campaigning against the E...

4 Jan 2022

Thai farmers fear loss of land to mega industrial zone

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