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Industry pushback a major factor behind Japan’s decarbonisation delays

...power producer Tokyo Electric Power, and currently, Hitachi, a conglomerate that builds digital solutions for the mobility, energy and information technology sectors. There has yet to be a Keidanren c...

17 Aug 2020

Industry pushback a major factor behind Japan’s decarbonisation delays

Children gather by the seawall as strong waves brought by Typhoon Kammuri

News / Policy & Finance

The scramble by poorer nations for unmet climate finance

...Powershift Africa, backed by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, Least Developed Countries, and the Alliance of Small Island States. Climate negotiators from the least developed nations have pushed back ag...

22 Sep 2021

The scramble by poorer nations for unmet climate finance

News / Policy & Finance

Primary-coloured poison: lead paint still a huge threat to Indonesian kids

...power to issue a regulation mandating that information regarding lead content be placed on paint packaging so that the public can make informed decisions. The Indonesian government still largely relie...

18 Nov 2021

Primary-coloured poison: lead paint still a huge threat to Indonesian kids

News / Policy & Finance

COP26: Rifts remain over finance for adaptation, loss and damage

...Power Shift Africa slammed it as “very fuzzy”. He tweeted: “This won’t restore confidence or international cooperation needed.” Developing countries need to acknowledge the shortfall in finance provid...

15 Nov 2021

COP26: Rifts remain over finance for adaptation, loss and damage

News / Policy & Finance

Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

...power. Doing so would mean tackling the military’s deep involvement in the jade trade. The government’s inability or unwillingness to control the industry includes a failure to introduce and enforce e...

30 Nov 2020

Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

News / Energy

IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’

...powered revolution’ The report describes the rise of solar power in India as “spectacular” and says India is on the “cusp of a solar‐powered revolution”. Renewables deployment has already been picking...

15 Feb 2021

IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’

News / Policy & Finance

While negotiators wrangle at COP26, South Asia chokes in toxic air

...powers and undermines local action, increasing the vulnerability of the people, experts told The Third Pole. “Managing air quality to keep it below health thresholds requires detailed understanding o...

10 Nov 2021

While negotiators wrangle at COP26, South Asia chokes in toxic air

News / Carbon & Climate

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

...power plants by 2030. At the same time, there are huge, yet untapped clean energy resources. Estimates by the country’s environment ministry put the country's potential for wind power generation at a ...

26 Oct 2020

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

News / Energy

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

...power developer Varp Power, pointed out what this means: solar power will cost more. Reluctant discoms have slowed down on signing PPAs. Kumar said PPAs for auctions held last November are being signe...

29 Jul 2020

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

CEO members of the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders talking at the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2019.

News / Carbon & Climate

Multinational CEOs petition world leaders to 'supercharge' climate action

...power plants in Indonesia. "Funding any fossil fuel allows the industry to continue emitting carbon — setting the world back in terms of our Paris climate goals," he said. "We agree that governments ...

10 Jun 2021

Multinational CEOs petition world leaders to 'supercharge' climate action

News / Policy & Finance

Duterte tells UN: Fight climate change with the same urgency as Covid-19

...power mix for Southeast Asia in 2030. Coal is the single largest contributor to climate change, which threatens to put 400 million people in the poorest countries at risk of severe food and water shor...

25 Sep 2020

Duterte tells UN: Fight climate change with the same urgency as Covid-19

News / Policy & Finance

As leaders make bold climate pledges, critics say it's ‘all just smoke and mirrors’

...ads of state were eager to wax eloquent about the need to cut emissions, protect forests and biodiversity — even as they failed to explain their nations’ failure to meet Paris Climate Agreement target...

26 Apr 2021

As leaders make bold climate pledges, critics say it's ‘all just smoke and mirrors’

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Mixed messages on coal funding from AIIB as it launches new climate change investment framework

...power plants at the launch of the AIIB-Amundi Climate Change Investment Framework on Wednesday (9 September). “I can assure you I am not going to finance any coal-fired power plant. More than that, we...

11 Sep 2020

Mixed messages on coal funding from AIIB as it launches new climate change investment framework

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Food, not steel, is our biggest climate challenge

...powers them than they do for the diesel and petrol they buy today. In some hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, and shipping, however, decarbonisation is likely to impose a significant cost. W...

5 Apr 2021

Food, not steel, is our biggest climate challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Only intact forests can stave off climate change

...power stations, vehicle exhausts and factory chimneys? The assumption is that approaching one third of all the carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed by the forests, and the conservation of the planet’...

5 May 2021

Only intact forests can stave off climate change

Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

News / Energy

AIIB’s new no-coal pledge puts spotlight on China’s overseas energy investment

...power plants” he said. “More than that, AIIB will not finance any projects that are functionally related to coal – for instance roads leading to the plant or transmission lines serving coal power.” A ...

20 Nov 2020

AIIB’s new no-coal pledge puts spotlight on China’s overseas energy investment

News / Corporate Responsibility

Businesses join hands to find 'right recipe' for zero-carbon industries

...power planes. For aviation, he believes a range of technologies - from electrification of smaller aircraft to use of hydrogen and other sustainable fuels to power larger planes - will be needed. Susta...

26 Feb 2021

Businesses join hands to find 'right recipe' for zero-carbon industries

News / Food & Agriculture

Mango exports boom in Cambodia, but farmers face challenges

...powered irrigation pumps, to plantations that use soil-regeneration techniques, such as sustainable tilling and planting cover crops to revitalise the land. While some investors work with experts to u...

14 Dec 2021

Mango exports boom in Cambodia, but farmers face challenges

Nandi Devi mountain in Uttarakhand Himalayas

News / Carbon & Climate

Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?

...power construction project 5km downstream. The floodwater was first noticed by residents of Raini village, which sits 3,700km above sea level, who filmed videos on their phones. The fast-flowing flood...

11 Feb 2021

Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?

Sarah Cragg is the head of a new sustainability unit at advertising agency MullenLowe. Image: MullenLowe

News / Corporate Responsibility

Marketing agency MullenLowe hires Ben & Jerry's executive Sarah Cragg to run sustainability practice

...powerful means of instigating or accelerating this change." She added that her agency is not afraid to ask the difficult questions of a potential client or challenge their motivations. "We have no int...

11 Nov 2020

Marketing agency MullenLowe hires Ben & Jerry's executive Sarah Cragg to run sustainability practice

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