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Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

...to data from the company's own scientists that predicted climate change "at rate faster than at any time since end of the ice age." The filmed warned that to delay action to mitigate the effects of cl...

24 Nov 2018

Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

News / Transport

Faster, cheaper, greener: Pakistanis turn to car-pooling service

...tudent struggling to get to college. "I saw a particular need to start this project," he remembers. Through the website, cars and vans that travel a daily route register with RASAI, and customers look...

1 Apr 2019

Faster, cheaper, greener: Pakistanis turn to car-pooling service

News / Cities

Ancient fort community in Bangkok loses 25-year battle against bulldozers

...to some of its top tourist attractions such as the Grand Palace and the Wat Pho temple, known for its giant reclining Buddha. Fort Mahakan, built in the 18th century, is one of the oldest structures i...

7 May 2018

Ancient fort community in Bangkok loses 25-year battle against bulldozers

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How can China's Belt and Road be low carbon?

...that the benefits are not offset by unmitigated climate change. Now is the moment for China and the international community to work together to take concrete action to ensure that BRI investments are ...

29 Mar 2019

How can China's Belt and Road be low carbon?

Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church can lead on climate action. Here are 3 ways how.

...t the commitments to cut emissions they made in their 'nationally determined contributions', those commitments must be also strengthened by 2020 to put us on the needed trajectory to mid-century. That...

30 Jul 2018

With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church can lead on climate action. Here are 3 ways how.

metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

News / Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

...te look at the policies that are either in place or announced in different parts of the energy sector. It takes into account long-term energy and climate targets only to the extent that they are backe...

19 Oct 2020

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

...the state capital, according to The Star newspaper. “I told them not to flatten hills and chop trees, but just expand existing roads that we have.” Widening the roadways that are already there, instea...

28 Mar 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

the cooling towers of the retired Orlando coal plant in South Africa. The towers now display large murals and advertisements as well as being used as a platform for bungee and BASE jumping

News / Energy

While the world goes cool on coal, China plots climate-critical dirty energy push

...ts coal capacity. Despite toughening restrictions on coal in China from the central government, satellite photos reveal that developers have restarted construction on dozens of projects that had previ...

28 Mar 2019

While the world goes cool on coal, China plots climate-critical dirty energy push

News / Water

Water-stressed Pakistan looks for billions in donations to build dams

...the country's Indus water treaty, testified in a court hearing last July about worsening water scarcity risks in the country. Ali told the court that the country's three western rivers - the Indus, Jh...

25 Feb 2019

Water-stressed Pakistan looks for billions in donations to build dams

News / Food & Agriculture

Add cows, subtract chemicals: Organic farming a plus for climate-hit Indian farmers

...ts, sorghum and maize, and getting milk from their cows, he said. They have also noticed that their plants' roots seem to hold the soil better, making them more able to withstand harsher storms and st...

25 Mar 2019

Add cows, subtract chemicals: Organic farming a plus for climate-hit Indian farmers

News / Water

As water disappears, parched southern Pakistan farmers march north

...t the result of cool June temperatures in Gilgit-Baltistan's Skardu district, with less snowmelt coming from the foothills of the Karakoram mountains. "It takes between 17 to 25 days for the water fro...

9 Jul 2019

As water disappears, parched southern Pakistan farmers march north

News / Carbon & Climate

How can the fashion business make recycled garments sexy?

...t of all, that something beautiful and functional can come out of it.” With scientists warning that the world only has about 12 years before experiencing the worst effects of a hotter planet, solution...

30 Jul 2019

How can the fashion business make recycled garments sexy?

News / Energy

Aid agencies eye solar power to replace volatile, costly fuel

...they can come up with some kind of innovation around how to store the energy better, then renewables become a lot more attractive." Batteries have long held the promise of solving the intermittent nat...

15 Oct 2018

Aid agencies eye solar power to replace volatile, costly fuel

News / Corporate Responsibility

Oxford University offers boost for businesses that put people before profit

...ty or the environment as well as turning a profit, through its Oxford University Innovation (OUI) arm. "The university wants to make sure the research it produces has the biggest impact possible that ...

27 Sep 2018

Oxford University offers boost for businesses that put people before profit

News / Food & Agriculture

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

...to switch to government-regulated crops but could not then afford extras such as fertiliser, the paper said. Intensive farming might increase production in the short-term but reduce it in the long run...

21 Jun 2018

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

News / Food & Agriculture

Can WhatsApp and motorbikes protect Africa's food security?

...t that would not be enough to stop them migrating. "(It is) whether or not the rural people have the access to watch the TV for the Monday football game ... Their ability to have their motorbike, and ...

13 Jul 2018

Can WhatsApp and motorbikes protect Africa's food security?

News / Policy & Finance

Indian voters demand environmental clean-up

...tter hospitals and health care centres to help them with breathing difficulties. The elections start on 11 April, and with 900 million people able to vote it will not be until 23 May that the result i...

11 Apr 2019

Indian voters demand environmental clean-up

An advertisement for green group Sea Shepherd highlights the ecosystem damage of cigarette butt pollution to mark World Oceans Day. A single cigarette can pollute 500 litres of water, the ad warns. Image: Sea Shepherd

News / Waste

When will tobacco companies be held responsible for cigarette butt pollution?

...the most littered item on the planet. Yet it is the makers of plastic bags, drink bottles and drinking straws that shoulder most of the blame for the plight of the oceans. And while a cigarette butt ...

22 Oct 2019

When will tobacco companies be held responsible for cigarette butt pollution?

News / Energy

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

...tudent activist at the University of the Philippines, pushing for agricultural land rights in the early 1980s. He turned his attention to the environment when he learned that climate issues affected t...

7 Sep 2019

Meet the environment defenders fighting for clean energy in Southeast Asia

News / Energy

How to rethink Southeast Asia's energy systems to meet climate goals?

...ter wants the lights to go out on his or her watch. We work with them to work out how to build intermittent renewables into their grids, and the solutions they need to create flexibility in the system...

27 Jun 2019

How to rethink Southeast Asia's energy systems to meet climate goals?

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