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Rainforest Alliance aims to help ethical growers get climate-smart

...floods and drought, and consider climate resilience in their choice of crops, she added. Consumers are demanding more information on where their products come from, and expect brands to show they are ...

2 Jul 2020

Rainforest Alliance aims to help ethical growers get climate-smart

News / Waste

Will this solar-powered device clean the world's most polluted rivers?

...flooding disasters in recent years. Torrential rain, with a record-breaking intensity, showered Greater Jakarta for almost 16 hours through New Year’s Eve and into New Year’s Day. Most of the city’s r...

18 Mar 2020

Will this solar-powered device clean the world's most polluted rivers?

News / Cities

Jakarta’s sea level prompts a move—at a price

...flooding is common. Attempts at tackling the issue have so far made little impact. A scheme designed to keep seawater out involving the construction of a 32 kilometre-long outer sea wall called the G...

9 Sep 2019

Jakarta’s sea level prompts a move—at a price

News / Carbon & Climate

Lost giants: Logging and climate shifts slash forest carbon storage

...flooding, protect biodiversity and limit climate change. Trees also absorb carbon dioxide, the main pollutant heating up the Earth's climate, and store carbon, which they release when they are cut dow...

1 Jun 2020

Lost giants: Logging and climate shifts slash forest carbon storage

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For the first time, Quezon City, Philippines among 88 cities recognised for climate leadership by CDP

...flood mapping. Kyra Appleby, Global Director of Cities, States and Regions at CDP said: “We commend the 88 cities on the CDP Cities A List for their transparency and action to build resilience...

8 Jan 2021

For the first time, Quezon City, Philippines among 88 cities recognised for climate leadership by CDP

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Emerging economies should build back greener

...floods, droughts, and hurricanes associated with climate change, and by the warming temperatures expected to encourage more pandemics in the future. Now is the time to protect and restore wetlands and...

29 Jul 2020

Emerging economies should build back greener

News / Carbon & Climate

Don't call me 'Greta': Young climate activists demand to be heard

...floods and rising seas. India was ranked as the fifth most weather-affected country in a climate risk index by environmental think-tank Germanwatch last year. In 2018, the South Asian nation suffered ...

7 Feb 2020

Don't call me 'Greta': Young climate activists demand to be heard

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A woman-focused climate agenda

...flooding have forced girls and women to walk farther to gather firewood and obtain water, a time-consuming and potentially dangerous change. As meeting households’ energy, water, and food needs become...

27 Sep 2019

A woman-focused climate agenda

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

...floods and hurricanes are all rising in their frequency and severity. Eight of the last 10 years have been the warmest on record. Marine biologists warned that coral reefs in the U.S. could disappear ...

26 Sep 2019

Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

While governments take a Covid-induced time out from sustainability, businesses should not

...Floods have affected well over 20,000 Malaysians this year alone. Meanwhile, heatwaves aggravate public health conditions by fueling mosquito-borne disease transmission. Governments again will meet th...

14 Oct 2020

While governments take a Covid-induced time out from sustainability, businesses should not

News / Energy

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

A Bangladeshi plan to burn more coal for power will worsen global warming in a nation already battered by climate crises from floods to cyclones, according to a report out on Wednesday. About 3 per ce...

7 Nov 2019

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists predict El Niño in 2020 based on earlier warning method

The complex El Niño weather pattern that can bring disastrous heavy rainfall and long droughts to countries around the Pacific - from Peru to Indonesia and Australia - will probably emerge again in 20...

7 Nov 2019

Scientists predict El Niño in 2020 based on earlier warning method

News / Food & Agriculture

Toxic mercury in fish rising with climate change and overfishing

...flooding and sea level rise." Warmer seas have increased the energy needs of small fish, so they ingest more prey containing methylmercury, Sunderland said. These small fish are in turn eaten by tuna,...

8 Aug 2019

Toxic mercury in fish rising with climate change and overfishing

Opinion / Cities

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

...flooded neighborhoods were people of color. Cities account for nearly 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and many of them, like New Orleans, are experiencing more instances of extreme weather, hea...

16 Dec 2019

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

News / Policy & Finance

Pandemic pushes world's biggest jobs programme to brink in rural India

...floods and tight budgets. Jobs include planting trees, building roads and cleaning canals - useful yet rarely tasks that tap into an applicant's trade. "Migrant workers are mostly skilled and earned 5...

11 Sep 2020

Pandemic pushes world's biggest jobs programme to brink in rural India

News / Cities

UN plans vast urban forests to fight climate change

...floods and heatwaves and halt land degradation. It will discuss plans to create up to half a million hectares of new urban forests - more than four times the size of Hong Kong—by 2030 in New York this...

24 Sep 2019

UN plans vast urban forests to fight climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

South Korea's farming culture points to the future for sustainable agriculture

...floods, and escalating food prices that South Korea has experienced in recent years. Sustainable land, forestry and biodiversity management The town of Geumsan in Chuncheongnam province, in the countr...

19 May 2020

South Korea's farming culture points to the future for sustainable agriculture

Opinion / Water

River deltas are ‘drowning’, threatening hundreds of millions of people

...Flood embankments prevent sediment reaching delta plains and may need to be breached, as is being explored in the Ganges delta. Additionally, the removal of sand from rivers for construction materials...

7 Nov 2019

River deltas are ‘drowning’, threatening hundreds of millions of people

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

India pushes back against strengthening climate pledge

...floods, storms, forest fires, locust attacks have taken care of that. The government’s own scientists have emphasised the need to control GHG emissions. But that has not stopped the government from se...

15 Dec 2020

India pushes back against strengthening climate pledge

News / Policy & Finance

Grim toll from Indonesia’s abandoned mines may get even worse: Report

...flooding that activists say was exacerbated by the environmental damage caused by mining. Lana Saria, the mining ministry’s environmental director, said there are only 212 mining permits in force thro...

19 Feb 2021

Grim toll from Indonesia’s abandoned mines may get even worse: Report

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