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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Getting the social cost of carbon right

...1 in 50 years, we would be willing to spend only 22 cents today; to save $1 in 100 years, we would be willing to spend less than five cents. There is no ethical justification for giving so little weig...

19 Feb 2021

Getting the social cost of carbon right

News / Energy

How to tackle Covid-19 jobs crisis and climate change? Invest in clean energy

...1.2 times, showed the studies analysed by WRI. The renewable energy sector has created a rising number of jobs in recent years, at 11.5 million in 2019 up from 11 million the previous year, according ...

19 Oct 2021

How to tackle Covid-19 jobs crisis and climate change? Invest in clean energy

Co-heading the APAC division of BlackRock Sustainable Investing are Geir Espeskog, who moves over from BlackRock's iShares Asia Pacific distribution team, and Emily Woodland, who joins from AMP Capital, where she was head of sustainable investment, global public markets.

News / Policy & Finance

BlackRock appoints sustainable investment heads for Asia Pacific

...1 trillion in sustainable assets under management by 2030. Last year, BlackRock, which is the world's largest asset manager, declared that it would “punish” high-emissions companies in its portfolio, ...

12 Apr 2021

BlackRock appoints sustainable investment heads for Asia Pacific

News / Transport

An 'elite minority' is responsible for most aviation pollution, and should be penalised for it, says NGO

...19 pandemic has put a stop to prolific air travel amid border restrictions, financially hobbling airlines. Singapore’s national carrier secured a S$19 billion (USD$13 billion) bail-out package in Marc...

9 Apr 2021

An 'elite minority' is responsible for most aviation pollution, and should be penalised for it, says NGO

Podcasts / Energy

Google's moonshot quest for carbon free energy

With the global energy transition well underway, investment into energy decarbonisation hit a record US$501.3 billion in 2020, according to latest figures by Bloomberg NEF. As technologies advance and...

7 Jun 2021

Google's moonshot quest for carbon free energy

News / Energy

Indian coal mine workers fear job, social security loss amid shift to renewables

...144 mines employing around 300,000 people directly and around one million people indirectly. Mining takes place in 11 of the total 24 districts and contributes to 8.9 per cent of the Gross State Value...

29 May 2022

Indian coal mine workers fear job, social security loss amid shift to renewables

News / Policy & Finance

Eco-Business launches new global sustainability innovation platform: The SDG Co

...140 trillion in total global assets under management. But the flurry of net-zero pledges and sustainable investments are currently insufficient, especially as countries recover from the devastating e...

16 Sep 2021

Eco-Business launches new global sustainability innovation platform: The SDG Co

fishing subsidies social ecological harm

News / Food & Agriculture

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm: Report

...10 to 1, and foreign vessels catch twice as much fish. In an extreme example, foreign fishing subsidies exceed domestic subsidies in the coastal nation of Guinea-Bissau by a ratio of 1,173 to 1, and f...

9 Jul 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm: Report

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does China want from COP28?

...1200 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind projects by 2030. From late 2020 to the first half of 2021, the Chinese bureaucratic system was mobilised to deliver Xi’s vision. Two critical actors were identif...

30 Nov 2023

What does China want from COP28?

News / Carbon & Climate

As post-Covid travel picks up, should we cut business flights?

...15 and 2050. "If air travel were in 2018 a country, it would be the sixth largest (CO2) emitter in the world," said WRI behavioural scientist Mindy Hernandez. "It's not an easy sector to decarbonise. ...

14 Oct 2021

As post-Covid travel picks up, should we cut business flights?

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia is cutting down less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

...12, when 314,937 hectares (778,226 acres) of forest were cleared, according to Auriga. From then on, the rate declined, falling to less than 150,000 hectares (371,000 acres) in 2015, and less than 100...

28 Jan 2022

Indonesia is cutting down less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

Press Releases / AlliedCrowds - AlliedOffsets

American higher education system retired over 925,000+ US carbon credits to date

New report shows academic institutions taking the lead for a greener future The American carbon offsetting market has had 42 institutions of higher education contribute an estimated 1 per cent of the...

13 Apr 2021

American higher education system retired over 925,000+ US carbon credits to date

Conservation of 12,200 hectares of land in Mexico

News / Policy & Finance

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

...1-billion effort to protect Southeast Asia's forests. French fashion house Chanel is also backing a new fund that aims to raise $100 million by 2025 to invest in sustainable projects in developing cou...

9 Sep 2021

Nature-curious investors await bankable conservation deals

News / Waste

In the Philippines’ war on waste, a startup deploys black soldier flies

...1.1 million people in 2000 to an estimated 1.8 million in 2020. More people means more garbage. Data from the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) show that Davao has generated at lea...

30 Jun 2021

In the Philippines’ war on waste, a startup deploys black soldier flies

News / Water

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

...1, which respectively saw around 665 and 1,263 hectares (1,643 and 3,121 acres) signed over from the state to new owners. Phnom Penh’s poorest face ‘an unfolding disaster’ Many of those buying up recl...

12 Oct 2022

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

Lim brings to an end a long tenure with Microsoft, where latterly she was senior manager, global diversity and inclusion, Asia practice leader.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

...15 years with Shell, initially in retail and marketing, then in diversity and inclusion, working as a senior consultant for the global D&I practice for five years before moving to Microsoft in 201...

3 Feb 2021

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

Press Releases / Impact Shakers

Twelve European startups win Impact Shakers Award

...100% of the winners have at least 1 underrepresented founder on their team. 75% have at least 1 female founder. 75% received funding.

25 Jun 2021

Twelve European startups win Impact Shakers Award

News / Energy

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

...157 IFR claims were finalised from March 31, 2019, to August 31, 2021. A tribal affairs ministry press release from 2019 reminded state governments of the law: “Wrongfully dispossessing members of sch...

13 May 2022

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

Press Releases / Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls named to prestigious FT European Climate Leaders list

...1 is a list of companies across Europe that have shown the highest reduction of their emission intensity, i.e., core greenhouse gas emissions in relation to revenues, between 2014 and 2019. Johnson Co...

19 May 2021

Johnson Controls named to prestigious FT European Climate Leaders list

deforestation for palm oil on peatland in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian palm oil faces risk of stranded assets due to climate action

...1 to 2019, 27 million hectares of forests were lost in provinces dominated by palm oil production. Indonesia is the world's fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mainly due to deforestation and p...

30 Aug 2021

Indonesian palm oil faces risk of stranded assets due to climate action

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