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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 strategies that help achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation

...power outages in other areas. Smaller, more manageable power sources can also recover from disasters more rapidly. Low-carbon technologies such as solar panels and batteries can also provide reliable,...

11 Feb 2020

5 strategies that help achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation

News / Carbon & Climate

Amid the pandemic, how can businesses not lose sight of climate change?

...power, move towards zero-emissions transportation, and decarbonise heating and cooling. Implementing internal carbon pricing can help mitigate transition risks and improve decision making around inves...

8 Jun 2020

Amid the pandemic, how can businesses not lose sight of climate change?

News / Cities

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

...power systems as medical facilities damaged by hurricanes are rebuilt in places like Puerto Rico, to lower planet-warming emissions and ensure the centres can function during disaster blackouts. GRCN'...

19 May 2020

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

News / Transport

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

...powered by an energy grid still reliant to some degree on fossil fuels, there are concerns that they may not actually deliver the expected benefits for the climate. New research, however, shows that t...

26 Mar 2020

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

Claire Sancelot, the founder of The Hive Bulk Foods

News / Corporate Responsibility

'In the DNA': How social entrepreneurs are getting creative in pandemic

...powered container clinics, also put its technicians on motorbikes, mounted with refrigerated clinic kits, to collect medical samples and deliver prescriptions. Across the border in Kenya, CheckUps Med...

20 Nov 2020

'In the DNA': How social entrepreneurs are getting creative in pandemic

Press Releases / Cleantech Solar

Cleantech Solar and ING ink Asia Pacific’s largest green loan for commercial and industrial rooftop solar projects

...power projects. These projects will benefit leading local and multinational corporates across Southeast Asia with reliable and long-term cost saving clean energy solutions. According to the Internati...

25 Jun 2020

Cleantech Solar and ING ink Asia Pacific’s largest green loan for commercial and industrial rooftop solar projects

News / Carbon & Climate

Asian companies claim they are going net-zero — but are their targets realistic, ambitious or greenwash?

...power source, and where a diversity of regulatory landscapes has made scaling renewables hard and where prices remain high in places. This has led Asian companies to focus on reducing energy consumpti...

29 Mar 2021

Asian companies claim they are going net-zero — but are their targets realistic, ambitious or greenwash?

News / Cities

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

...powerful as planting trees to protect residents from heat, said Hitipeuw-Gribnau, whose city encourages neighbours to check on each other during hot spells. "We want to get people to a point where the...

13 Feb 2020

Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned

News / Policy & Finance

In Myanmar, campaigners oppose US$21 million conservation project

...power in 1988 before transitioning to a hybrid of civilian and military rule in the early 2010s. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, between 2010 and 2015 Myanmar experi...

28 May 2020

In Myanmar, campaigners oppose US$21 million conservation project

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia dam builder rebuffs new study to assess impact on orangutans

...ads; and designing the project’s overhead power lines to allow the orangutans to travel safely beneath them. As long as NSHE carries out these measures, the impact of the dam can be minimized, Singlet...

25 Aug 2020

Indonesia dam builder rebuffs new study to assess impact on orangutans

News / Policy & Finance

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

...powerful,” said Jennifer Tollmann, a policy advisor with the environmental think-tank E3G in Berlin. “You don’t really see any major power alliances in the world that could set that global agenda in t...

19 Jun 2020

Hopes for EU–China climate deal centre on a green recovery

Opinion / Energy

China faces 4 big risks if it continues building more coal plants

...power stations faced net financial losses, resulting from overinvestment in coal power, increasing coal prices, and reduced renewable energy curtailment (more of the renewable power generated is actua...

3 Dec 2019

China faces 4 big risks if it continues building more coal plants

News / Energy

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

...ads and by-lanes makes me excited,” said 35-year old dairy farmer, Yasmeen Barkat, who took over her father’s business after his death in 2007. There are associated benefits. “Getting rid of the flies...

24 Jan 2020

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

News / Policy & Finance

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

...ads, railways, hospitals and power plants is a reliable way to get economies motoring again, but certain types of infrastructure can be carbon-intensive, locking economies into high-emissions growth t...

28 Sep 2020

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

News / Energy

An industrial port in Singapore powered by solar—a model for other power-hungry industries?

...power than needed, enabling the port to sell the surplus to Singapore’s grid. Powering the port's operations with solar ensures the energy consumed can be sustainably provided for, said Tan Wee Meng, ...

9 Dec 2019

An industrial port in Singapore powered by solar—a model for other power-hungry industries?

Renewables, human rights, mineral mining

News / Energy

World’s biggest renewables firms earn abysmal scores on human rights performance

...Power Corp and Power Construction Corp of China. Other European corporations such as EDP, EDF Energy, Engie, E.ON and RWE as well as Chinese firm Jinko Solar nestle between the two groups. On policy c...

29 Jun 2020

World’s biggest renewables firms earn abysmal scores on human rights performance

News / Policy & Finance

Pandemic hikes concern over much-needed climate finance for poorest

...power. Reaching the $100-billion-a-year target is seen as vital to the progress of UN climate negotiations. Earlier this week, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa told an investor forum the required re...

11 Nov 2020

Pandemic hikes concern over much-needed climate finance for poorest

Press Releases / Rights and Resources Initiative

New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda

...powering the Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendants who have customary land rights to at least half of the Earth. The study, conducted by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI...

1 Dec 2020

New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda

News / Carbon & Climate

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

...power generation in the form of solar panels and wind turbines, will require an extensive amount of minerals. An average 3-megawatt wind turbine powering around 1,500 households needs 4 to 7 tonnes of...

13 Nov 2020

With rising energy demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

News / Energy

New renewables bill may give Indonesia chance to move away from coal

...powerhouse. It boasts the world’s richest reserves of geothermal energy, receives year-round sunshine thanks to its location on the equator, and has one of the longest coastlines of any country, ideal...

17 Feb 2020

New renewables bill may give Indonesia chance to move away from coal

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