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Sindicatum Blockchain Technologies launches renewable energy investment platform Reneum

...ts, stand-alone and unbundled energy attribute certificates, built on the immutable record of the blockchain. It is the standardized product that the market needs—one with the integrity and tran...

12 Nov 2018

Sindicatum Blockchain Technologies launches renewable energy investment platform Reneum

A new Greenpeace International investigation has revealed that Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.[1]

News / Food & Agriculture

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

...th. What's the toughest thing about growing the sustainable palm oil market? The biggest issue is the ‘leakage market’—the players that have no sustainability commitments [and sell to customers that d...

9 Oct 2019

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

...the rest of the tribe that us coming in and wanting to pay them to plant trees isn’t a sign from the devil and they’re not gonna die. But to be totally honest, some of the sites don’t work out eventua...

15 Aug 2018

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

News / Energy

Villages die as community makes way for coal in Germany

...ther groups have protested against the forced resettlement and say they plan to step up the demonstrations. "Local resistance against lignite is stronger than ever. We want the coal to stay in the gro...

14 Aug 2018

Villages die as community makes way for coal in Germany

News / Carbon & Climate

In a warming world, deadly bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics

...temperature by the end of the century. Nonetheless, this is yet more food for thought about why those who trivialize the potential impact of climate change are putting the planet at risk.” The researc...

19 Jun 2018

In a warming world, deadly bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics

News / Policy & Finance

Make oceans profitable to catch investment wave, say global leaders

...to strike a balance between the desire to exploit them with the need of protecting it," he told the summit. "This of course means we must have the right incentives and deterrents in place." Figueres s...

15 Mar 2018

Make oceans profitable to catch investment wave, say global leaders

Opinion / Manufacturing

Don't read this article: How ads against consumerism help sustainability

...try with its brand that is equivalent to, and as bold as, asking customers not to buy a product? Unanswered questions There are important limitations that retailers must surmount before the industry ...

6 Feb 2018

Don't read this article: How ads against consumerism help sustainability

Opinion / Lifestyle

Has the sharing economy really transformed the way we consume?

...to-peer marketplaces that redistribute and recycle food, industrial waste and other resources burden the logistics and transportation sector to an extent that may offset any other socio-economic benef...

29 Jan 2019

Has the sharing economy really transformed the way we consume?

News / Transport

Compromise climate deal agreed for shipping

...t at the talks reported that China was the first delegation to comment on the deal, after it was approved by chairman Hideako Saito. China welcomed the adoption of the initial strategy, which they des...

19 Apr 2018

Compromise climate deal agreed for shipping

News / Water

Half the world's schools lack clean water, toilets and handwashing

...ter at all. “ Children may not come to school at all if there's no toilets ... Then, when they are at school, they are not going to at their very best if they not able to use a decent toilet or if th...

28 Aug 2018

Half the world's schools lack clean water, toilets and handwashing