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Startups strive to recycle emissions for 'new carbon economy'

...teria that eats up CO2. It generates butanol, which goes into everyday products from perfume to paint. Phytonix is trying to raise $3 million to go commercial. "It takes a lot of time and effort to ex...

31 May 2019

Startups strive to recycle emissions for 'new carbon economy'

News / Carbon & Climate

Students for sustainability… University of Oxford’s Natalie Chung

...the Amsterdam city government to adopt the doughnut model into their post-Covid city planning. To date, the global economy has been driven by continued growth, but it’s important to question if that’s...

10 Jun 2020

Students for sustainability… University of Oxford’s Natalie Chung

News / Waste

World waste could grow 70 per cent as cities boom, warns World Bank

...tries that often lack adequate disposal and treatment facilities, said the report. “ If we don't take any action it could have quite significant implications for health, productivity, environment, li...

24 Sep 2018

World waste could grow 70 per cent as cities boom, warns World Bank

News / Food & Agriculture

Breakfast at risk: Philippines tries to turn the tide on fish losses

...they do, then we've got a ball game." Plastic pollution One of the biggest threats to the sustainability of marine life is plastic pollution and the Philippines is now the third highest contributor to...

30 Nov 2018

Breakfast at risk: Philippines tries to turn the tide on fish losses

News / Policy & Finance

Companies must commit to workplace equality—senior business leaders

...tive. "From a talent point of view, we want the best people on board at Accenture and if we do not tap into different pools of talent and have that culture of equality, we're not going to be the best ...

23 Jan 2019

Companies must commit to workplace equality—senior business leaders

News / Lifestyle

Bursting at the seams: Can a reverse supply chain save the world from fashion waste?

...t container that houses the system. G2G, set up by The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) with funding from the H&M Foundation, Novetex Textiles Limited and the territor...

25 Apr 2020

Bursting at the seams: Can a reverse supply chain save the world from fashion waste?

Press Releases / IUCN

IUCN launches Call for Proposals to reduce plastic leakage into the ocean

...trate that the project fosters strong cooperation and coordination between various stakeholders (including regulators, private sector, civil society) across the plastic value chain (production, transf...

6 May 2019

IUCN launches Call for Proposals to reduce plastic leakage into the ocean

News / Energy

How I got here... Sujay Malve, chief executive of Canopy Power

...to see, at that time (around 2007), how much that industry was dependent on government regulation, on tax credits. That's what we're given in the US—investment tax credits (to incentivise the developm...

1 Jun 2020

How I got here... Sujay Malve, chief executive of Canopy Power

News / Waste

Seaweed over plastic: Indonesia's race towards sustainable packaging

...theast of the tourism hotspot. They’re neither fishermen nor tour guides. They’re farmers, cultivating a watery crop that promises to be part of the solution to the increasingly urgent problem of mari...

25 Mar 2020

Seaweed over plastic: Indonesia's race towards sustainable packaging

News / Energy

Carbon capture struggles to accelerate in race to avert climate crash

...talists fear it could slow a transition to clean power. But it "needs to be in the toolbox" to cut excess emissions if climate threats surge, Hawkins said. With the Bahamas slammed by a devastating hu...

16 Sep 2019

Carbon capture struggles to accelerate in race to avert climate crash

Opinion / Lifestyle

How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now

...ted into our lives with little choice as to whether we should adopt them and little thought to their long-term appropriateness and sustainability. These shows ask us to be critical of what might seem ...

10 Dec 2019

How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

News / Food & Agriculture

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

...ting this month. The new standards include a ban on cutting down forests or converting peatlands for oil palm plantations, and greater protection for labour and land rights. "I hope that the rest of t...

27 Nov 2018

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

Press Releases / Temasek Foundation

Temasek Foundation partners People’s Association, corporates, unions, universities and community organisations to provide free hand sanitiser to Singapore households

...te the specified collection date on their pamphlet. They must bring along their pamphlet to collect their free sanitiser at any collection centre. Each pamphlet will entitle the resident to col...

18 Mar 2020

Temasek Foundation partners People’s Association, corporates, unions, universities and community organisations to provide free hand sanitiser to Singapore households

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate costs rocket, Vanuatu seeks allies to sue for damages

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.o...

12 Dec 2018

As climate costs rocket, Vanuatu seeks allies to sue for damages

Opinion / Energy

Death by dirty cooking

...to LPG and other clean-cooking fuels. The imperative now is to continue building on these gains, while adapting the strategies that powered them to different contexts, especially in Africa. To this en...

6 Nov 2019

Death by dirty cooking

News / Food & Agriculture

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

...the only ingredient that is certified sustainable, the crop’s poor reputation, particularly in the West, has meant that few manufacturers want to draw attention to the fact that they’re using it, sust...

16 Oct 2019

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

National University of Singapore's straw-free campaign

News / Waste

Singapore university's plastic straw ban sparks backlash from students: 'I've been greatly inconvenienced'

...that want to scrimp on cost. Complaining that they had been "greatly inconvenienced", the student said they needed straws because they have sensitive teeth. They added that the ban on straws was point...

8 Nov 2018

Singapore university's plastic straw ban sparks backlash from students: 'I've been greatly inconvenienced'

News / Waste

Making waves: Female round-the-world crew to fight ocean plastic

...the planet's most important and diverse marine environments to build a picture of the state of the seas. The 38,000 nautical mile trip will take in the Arctic, the Galapagos Islands, the South Pacific...

15 Jul 2019

Making waves: Female round-the-world crew to fight ocean plastic

News / Food & Agriculture

More city dwellers connect with their food via street markets

...treet food market Mercato Metropolitano. "Markets reconnect the rural economy to the city: in a market you get in touch with the people who are producing their own stuff." Street markets have existed ...

7 Jun 2019

More city dwellers connect with their food via street markets

News / Carbon & Climate

'Silent emergency' as heat risks rise in Hong Kong—and globally

...t in this steamy city that last week hosted an international forum on heat risks from climate change. Global experts on health, weather and climate flocked to the former British colony to try to find ...

31 Dec 2018

'Silent emergency' as heat risks rise in Hong Kong—and globally

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