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How China’s carbon neutrality goal will transform the global heating trajectory

...flooding.

28 Sep 2020

How China’s carbon neutrality goal will transform the global heating trajectory

The billion-dollar Gardens by the Bay project is built on 101 hectares of land in Marina Bay, the heart of Singapore's Central Business District.

News / Green Buildings

How will low-lying Singapore’s built environment survive rising seas?

...flooding in its prime shopping district. Image: Eco-Business That sinking feeling Since the 1960s, Singapore has spent billions on drains and canals to cope with flooding, including a S$300 million u...

30 Sep 2019

How will low-lying Singapore’s built environment survive rising seas?

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, orangutans

...flooded by the dam’s reservoir. “ The development will damage the environment. They’re going to build a dam and flood more than 4,000 hectares of forest. That is the problem. Mahmud, resident, East A...

3 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, orangutans

News / Policy & Finance

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

...flood of statements, the impatience and frustration among activists were as evident as record warming, rising sea levels, and increasingly deadly storms, wildfires and drought. “The Biden administrati...

26 Apr 2021

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

Mangroves in Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

'Ecological mangrove restoration' trumps one-size-fits-all approach to forest loss

...flooding. Like many villagers, Suleiman comes from a fishing family, inheriting his knowledge of where to fish and his respect for the mangroves from his ancestors. “The mangrove contributes to the ec...

3 Nov 2020

'Ecological mangrove restoration' trumps one-size-fits-all approach to forest loss

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Salty water in Bangkok is new 'reality' as sea pushes farther inland

...flooding. Cities located in deltas have to increasingly deal with saltwater intrusion, said Diane Archer, a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Bangkok. "The reality of climate c...

13 Jan 2020

Salty water in Bangkok is new 'reality' as sea pushes farther inland

News / Carbon & Climate

Melting Arctic needs new name to match reality

...flooding in which agriculture, industry and civilisation have evolved for the last 10,000 years. But as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere soar in response to rapidly-increasing use of fossil fue...

17 Sep 2020

Melting Arctic needs new name to match reality

Deforestation Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for deeper emissions cuts

...floods and droughts. Record-breaking rainfall that battered Jakarta earlier this year prompted one of the worst floods in the city’s history, affecting millions of people and paralysing economic activ...

15 Apr 2020

Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for deeper emissions cuts

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Confronting a new climate reality in Asia Pacific

...floods in a century. The floods in Iran in April this year were unprecedented. Floods and heatwaves in quick succession in Japan caused widespread destruction and loss of life. In several South Asian ...

3 Oct 2019

Confronting a new climate reality in Asia Pacific

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon neutrality in China: Behind the corporate hype

...flooding in, companies are issuing carbon neutrality statements. Since December, major firms have outlined their positions and made commitments, including the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNP...

14 Apr 2021

Carbon neutrality in China: Behind the corporate hype

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

...flooding, heatwaves, and drought. The study examined how some cities are already dealing with those threats through measures such as flood mapping, improved crisis management systems, and better engag...

24 Oct 2019

As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn

News / Carbon & Climate

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

...flooding thousands of villages and displacing millions. Rivers swelled to dangerous levels literally overnight, eventually bursting their banks. With roads, bridges and railways damaged by the floods,...

19 Dec 2019

7 ways climate change was felt in Asia in 2019

News / Carbon & Climate

Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

...flooded forests as peat, or being buried before it can completely decompose. The forest becomes a bank vault, repository or sink of the extra carbon that humans are now spilling into the atmosphere fr...

9 Mar 2020

Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035

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China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

...flood of stimulus money for construction and industrial projects. This is clear in steel demand, which has shifted heavily from steel products used in manufacturing to construction materials. However,...

30 Jun 2020

China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

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Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: Boosting water security

...flooding downstream when heavy rain falls had been reduced. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian n...

4 Sep 2020

Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: Boosting water security

News / Water

Water-related conflicts set to rise amid demand growth and climate impacts

...flooding and drought. "Where possible such green infrastructure should be used with or instead of traditional physical infrastructure like dams, levies (or) reservoirs," said Charles Iceland, head of ...

3 Sep 2020

News / Carbon & Climate

Very heavy rain bouts are on the way

...floods that can overwhelm sewage treatment plants and increase water contamination: rain-induced floods have claimed half a million lives since 1980. Such floods – and other studies have confirmed the...

20 Jun 2019

Very heavy rain bouts are on the way

News / Carbon & Climate

It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record

...flooding. Between 2010 and 2019, temperatures were 0.36 degrees Celsius (0.65 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1981-2010 average, making it the hottest decade since records began in 1901, according to th...

8 Jan 2020

It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change could put development goals beyond reach, UN official warns

...floods to small islands watching their coral reefs die and water supplies turn salty - mean those "worthy" global goals may no longer be the right focus, said Koko Warner of the U.N. climate change se...

31 Oct 2019

Climate change could put development goals beyond reach, UN official warns

Alberto Fernández at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

News / Carbon & Climate

As fossil fuel use surges, will COP26 protect forests to decrease climate change?

...flood, suffer drought, burn up, or are inundated by rising seas. As an undergraduate in Earth Systems at Stanford University in 1999, Fleischman attended a program led by 15 of the university’s top en...

3 Nov 2021

As fossil fuel use surges, will COP26 protect forests to decrease climate change?

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