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Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say

...t arrives leaves little room to manoeuvre. "In a crisis like this there is no time to go by trial and error. You unfortunately have to get it right the first time," she said at the Adaptation Futures ...

20 Jun 2018

Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say

News / Food & Agriculture

'Super' crops and cows - Bill Gates, UK inject cash into farm science

...tries depend on livestock farming, says the International Livestock Research Institute, with the sector accounting for 40 percent of agricultural GDP globally. "We think that the result of this invest...

29 Jan 2018

'Super' crops and cows - Bill Gates, UK inject cash into farm science

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate risks grow, Pakistani Kashmir boosts emergency plans

...the region to adapt is a step in the right direction. But the real test is whether other departments - such as the forestry department, charged with protecting the region's fast-disappearing trees - w...

17 May 2018

As climate risks grow, Pakistani Kashmir boosts emergency plans

News / Carbon & Climate

Sustainability research that aims to change the world

...the staff who lecture in the programme also conduct sustainability research in other departments and institutes in the university, meaning that students have a direct connection to this expertise and ...

18 Sep 2017

Sustainability research that aims to change the world

News / Waste

The treasure hidden in our gadgets

...tor to be able to extract it. The challenge to crack is to extract the metals at a cost that can compete with virgin materials, and to get steady and sufficient quantities of that material so that the...

26 Sep 2018

The treasure hidden in our gadgets

News / Food & Agriculture

Hungry and overweight: what's being done about Asia’s nutrition paradox?

...tor of global consulting firm Hystra. “Often times what we find out is that these [nutritious] products do exist. The issue is how to market the products to the people who need them the most," he expl...

27 Aug 2018

Hungry and overweight: what's being done about Asia’s nutrition paradox?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: What is the future of green building?

...tor expertise of the BEA with the business model expertise of the FSCI to help cities from the idea stage of municipal retrofits through to implementation. The Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative ...

8 Jun 2018

Q&A: What is the future of green building?

News / Cities

How walkable is your city? Tool aims to make pedestrians safer and happier

...tant that walkability isn't a luxury (but) an essential component of equity and sustainability, particularly in the rapidly growing cities of the global south," said Joe Chestnut of the Institute for ...

20 Feb 2018

How walkable is your city? Tool aims to make pedestrians safer and happier

News / Carbon & Climate

From Bhutan to Cambodia, early warning saves lives in floods

...the sensors with local partners including the Open Institute, an organisation that uses technology for social benefit. "With extreme weather events becoming more frequent and erratic, access to real-t...

31 Oct 2017

From Bhutan to Cambodia, early warning saves lives in floods

Devastated Tacloban City in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why we can't reverse climate change with 'negative emissions' technologies

...Ts. A study in Nature Climate Change from 2015 states, “There is no NET (or combination of NETs) currently available that could be implemented to meet the <2°C target without significant impact on ...

11 Oct 2018

Why we can't reverse climate change with 'negative emissions' technologies

News / Carbon & Climate

Armed with smartphones and boots, Niger youths map flood risks

...then send the data to the interior ministry, so it can better target its relief efforts in times of flooding." The three-month initiative is managed by the government Disaster Risk Management and Urba...

3 Oct 2017

Armed with smartphones and boots, Niger youths map flood risks

Ghana workers maintaining a thermal power station

News / Policy & Finance

The power missing from Africa’s biotech sector

...tee the low temperatures it takes to do that work, she said, or work in any sector. “ Talking about energy at the summit focused the conversation on a tangible problem to solve. At the same time it t...

13 Apr 2017

The power missing from Africa’s biotech sector

News / Energy

Communities push back against new 'clean coal' plants in the Philippines

...t, through the streets of provincial capital San Fernando to protest the two 670-megawatt (MW) coal plants to be built in Luna, a town 34 kilometres away. Construction is scheduled to start next month...

24 Jul 2018

Communities push back against new 'clean coal' plants in the Philippines

News / Waste

Supermarkets put on notice to cut waste or lose customer

...t the cost of waste - mean retailers need to adapt quickly if they want to keep current consumers happy and attract new ones, said Liz Goodwin of the US-based World Resources Institute think tank. Goo...

5 Jun 2017

Supermarkets put on notice to cut waste or lose customer

News / Carbon & Climate

Heatwave threats rarely an urban priority, even as risks rise

...ttributing heat deaths to heatwaves—something that is today a problem as most fatalities from heat are attributed to other more immediate causes, such as heart attacks, the experts said. In Cape Town,...

22 Jun 2018

Heatwave threats rarely an urban priority, even as risks rise

Presliced vegetables in plastic wrapping on supermarket shelves

Opinion / Lifestyle

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

...to balance out the inevitable litter. So how can you tell what is and isn’t worth it? One reason this is so hard to figure out is down to the nature of the material itself. Different kinds of plastic ...

26 Apr 2018

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

News / Cities

Everything we've heard about global urbanisation turns out to be wrong

...tor at the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, cautioned satellite imagery that captures the population density of human settlements might not tell the whole story. "A lot of the...

17 Jul 2018

Everything we've heard about global urbanisation turns out to be wrong

ExxonMobil takes on the world's toughest energy challenges

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Shareholders force ExxonMobil to plan for a world with Paris Agreement's emissions restrictions

...th that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, there was another potentially high-stakes climate change development: 62 per cent of ExxonMobil's shareholders voted to instruct the ...

27 Jun 2017

Shareholders force ExxonMobil to plan for a world with Paris Agreement's emissions restrictions

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

...ter.As the film starts, we are told that China and the United States are leading the planet’s best scientists in their (misguided) attempt to deliver fantastical climate engineering solutions that can...

19 Jun 2018

Is China getting the ‘cli-fi’ it needs?

News / Lifestyle

An indigenous village navigates its sustainable ecotourism success

...t acceptance of it, considering that the first recorded outsider to visit came just three decades ago, in 1984. As its popularity as a destination grows, there are concerns that the community’s tradit...

7 Aug 2018

An indigenous village navigates its sustainable ecotourism success

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