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As climate heats up, planners urged to look beyond history to judge risks

...floods without working out how they might change as the planet heats up and makes extreme events more likely, said study author Noah Diffenbaugh. "Global warming has had a really strong effect over th...

20 Mar 2020

As climate heats up, planners urged to look beyond history to judge risks

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

...floods, droughts, cyclones, and climate change impacts generally. Over 2 billion people do not have access to clean, sustainable energy for cooking, for example, and suffer from indoor air pollution...

2 Mar 2021

Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Following bushfires, expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves

...flooding including potentially lethal flash floods. The decade-long Millenium drought that ended in 2009 was followed by two extremely wet years with serious flooding. A similar situation was seen in ...

6 Jan 2020

Following bushfires, expect cyclones, floods and heatwaves

News / Policy & Finance

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

...floods and erosion during the monsoon and severe water shortages during the dry season. “We got an offer from [the Chinese]. Now we need to sit with them to set down the terms and conditions before fi...

30 Sep 2020

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

News / Policy & Finance

Caught between climate and virus threats, migrants have no safe place to go

Ali Mohammad, a 50-year-old Afghan nomad, lost most of his sheep to a harsh drought in 2018. The following year, his home was destroyed by floods that also killed his son and two daughters. These days...

11 May 2020

Caught between climate and virus threats, migrants have no safe place to go

News / Policy & Finance

Top UK worry? Climate change rises up to challenge Brexit

...flood damage across the country. Intensifying storms, rain and floods were the climate impact of most concern, the survey found, followed by hotter, drier weather and droughts. More than half said the...

4 Mar 2020

Top UK worry? Climate change rises up to challenge Brexit

News / Cities

Bangkok court halts river promenade project that would worsen flooding

A court in Bangkok has asked the city's authorities to stop work on a riverside promenade that urban planners and environmentalists said would worsen flooding and uproot hundreds of families dependent...

7 Feb 2020

Bangkok court halts river promenade project that would worsen flooding

News / Policy & Finance

Greenwash scrutiny in Asia a great boost to climate intelligence business: MioTech chief

...floods and extreme weather affect their assets. There are also instances when companies require us to look at hard-to-measure non-financial data. One interesting example was when we had to come up wi...

20 Jul 2022

Greenwash scrutiny in Asia a great boost to climate intelligence business: MioTech chief

News / Green Buildings

Do you have an idea to make buildings part of the fight against climate change?

In less than a decade, 60 per cent of the global population will live in cities. How can the built environment innovate and adapt to accommodate 360 million more people projected to live in urban area...

10 Nov 2020

Do you have an idea to make buildings part of the fight against climate change?

News / Water

One year after the drought: Has Chennai learned from its water crisis?

...Floods get more attention. After three days of rain, you have residents up in arms, asking why the city is flooded, whereas droughts are a silent killer,” said Ramachandran. “We have yet to recognise ...

27 Jul 2020

One year after the drought: Has Chennai learned from its water crisis?

Press Releases / Montgomery Asia

Geo Connect Asia 2022 to host fast-developing industry solutions

...flood planning, recovery & resilience Building biodiversity & the greening of communities Information mapping for sustainable information exchange Earth observation & satellite innovati...

23 Dec 2021

Geo Connect Asia 2022 to host fast-developing industry solutions

Greenwashing has become a growing problem

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

'We have reached peak greenwashing': what to do about the sustainability marketing tsunami?

...floods, and one in 100 year floods. And I think people are people are scared. And I think people really want action. And what that means is that companies really want to respond. And I think a lot of ...

17 Jun 2022

'We have reached peak greenwashing': what to do about the sustainability marketing tsunami?

News / Carbon & Climate

Connections to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

...flooding in Indonesia has also been associated with mining activities, with green groups saying decades of unchecked mining has silted up rivers and deforested watershed areas, compromising the abilit...

27 Sep 2021

Connections to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Opinion / Water

Overcoming water scarcity naturally

...floodwater before releasing it when needed, they enable the global water cycle that ensures a constant supply. Worldwide, wetlands’ full integration into water planning and management across all econo...

27 Apr 2021

Overcoming water scarcity naturally

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous rights undermined for hydropower in northern Indian state

...flooding, and the springs they depend on for irrigation drying up. Legal debate They are more worried now, after a meeting of the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) in June 2020. The EAC met to delibera...

23 Oct 2020

Indigenous rights undermined for hydropower in northern Indian state

News / Carbon & Climate

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

...flooding because many peatlands are near sea level,” stated the new study, Widespread subsidence and carbon emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands. "I was surprised to find that relatively high ra...

10 Jun 2020

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

News / Policy & Finance

Explained: the negotiating blocs that will steer COP26

...floods, storms and droughts. The LDC Group is part of the larger G-77 and China group, but sometimes takes positions contrary to those of emerging economies and oil-exporting countries. Arab States Oi...

2 Nov 2021

Explained: the negotiating blocs that will steer COP26

The US owes a massive climate debt. One way to pay it: Let in climate migrants

Opinion / Cities

The United States owes a massive climate debt. One way to pay it: Let in climate migrants.

...floods. A recent study from Princeton University modelled future migration in a world with more open borders and a world with closed borders to compare the movement of people and the flow of remittanc...

19 May 2021

The United States owes a massive climate debt. One way to pay it: Let in climate migrants.

News / Carbon & Climate

Human climate change causes Arctic’s record heat

...flood, windstorm or heat wave as evidence of climate change. That has, in the last few years, changed. Research teams have successively warned that climate change driven by human action had contribute...

28 Jul 2020

Human climate change causes Arctic’s record heat

Press Releases / Ovarro

Cloud-based apps mitigate water management risk

...flooding the network, is there a particular site generating many alarms or is there particular time of the day where overloads occur? With this information, water utilities and municipalities can plan...

1 Jul 2021

Cloud-based apps mitigate water management risk

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