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Trees in Century Park in Shanghai, China

...1July, stating the emissions it plans to make to contribute to the target of keeping global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Only 110 of the 197 governments that signed up in Paris to provide one had done s...

11 Aug 2021

Pinduoduo launches 2021 Smart Agriculture Competition

...1 million yuan ($154,000). Registration for the competition will end on Sept. 9, 2021. Teams can register through the competition website (https://smartagricompetition.com/register). A total of 15 te...

10 Aug 2021

Europe's largest coal fired power station at Drax.

...1990 levels), which could in turn affect the cost of CBAM permits. “ Prices in Chinese carbon markets have hovered at €1-13/tonne, a ‘fraction of the current €50/tonne carbon price in EU ETS... Yan Q...

19 May 2021

...10 to help developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. It is the largest fund of its kind, and recently approved US$1 billion in finance for develo...

9 Dec 2020

CapitaLand increases funding of S$500,000 for its global Sustainability X Challenge 2022

...1 in June 2021, CapitaLand launched a S$50 million CapitaLand Innovation Fund to support the testbedding of sustainability and other high-tech innovations in the built environment sector for over five...

16 Dec 2021

Arctic ice in Russia's Franz Josef Land archipelago

...1.4 per cent per year between 2010 and 2019. A far sharper rise took place in 2019, mainly due to emissions generated by wildfires, which are themselves exacerbated by a warming climate. In 2020, emi...

11 Dec 2020

Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change

...1 9811109907 E-mail: y.lohia@ifad.org IFAD invests in rural people, empowering them to reduce poverty, increase food security, improve nutrition and strengthen resilience. Since 1978, we have provid...

16 Jun 2021

...19 pandemic and the climate crisis. According to recent United Nations (UN) figures, the pandemic has increased the number of hungry people by as many as 161 million, to 811 million. Nearly one in thr...

27 Sep 2021

...15 years in communications with Procter & Gamble, first in India then in Singapore. She moved to Kimberly-Clark in 2015, where her role incorporated sustainability and she helped to develop the pa...

20 Aug 2020

...19 wave is receding, summer is approaching, and people are packing for overseas trips after hunkering down for a good two years. Air travel in February this year was up 116 per cent year-on-year, acco...

22 Apr 2022

artist's rendition of a fish swimming in plastic litter in an ocean

...13 million metric tonnes (11 billion to 28 billion pounds) of plastic wash into the ocean. The amount is expected to triple over the next century. Not only does this pose a danger to marine life, whic...

27 Nov 2020

The Liveability Challenge seeks game-changing solutions that address urgent climate challenges in Asian cities

...15 January to 15 April 2021, and can be done via the official website of The Liveability Challenge (https://www.theliveabilitychallenge.org/). “We urgently need solutions to help us transition ...

15 Jan 2021

More than 100 countries, including the United States and those in the European Union have signed up to a new commitment to reduce emissions of methane, a more powerful, but shorter-lived, greenhouse g...

12 Nov 2021

...1 - £10,000. This was followed by those within the household brackets of £35,001 - £40,000 (78 per cent) and £70,001+ (78 per cent). The survey also unveiled: London (84 pe...

4 May 2021

...1, total foreign direct investment also dropped by more than a third globally, to $1 trillion (from $1.5 trillion in 2019), threatening progress on sustainable development. This level was last seen in...

23 Jun 2021

European companies have played a key role in developing Asian offshore wind projects.

...139MW Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm in 2019. But Japan’s position on the edge of the Asian continental shelf means there are few locations where it will be possible to install bottom-fixed turbines...

29 Mar 2021

The Responsible Business Week [June 8-16] is now an online event and entirely free to attend.

...1-1 meetings with fellow attendees. A speaker faculty even better than before: You’ll learn from 30+ speakers with 20+ free sessions with presentations, panels, fireside chats, interactive work...

26 May 2020

...12 nuclear plant blackout and falsification of safety tests in South Korea affected public confidence in the energy source. A 2021 study based on 2018 surveys found that there was low public support f...

17 Jan 2022

Ricoh launches 15th Eco Action Day, answering United Nations’ call for green recovery

...12), climate action (SDG 13) and protecting life below water (SDG 14) and on land (SDG 15), amongst others. Taking part is easy – individuals and organisations can make simple tweaks, such as t...

9 Apr 2021

...10 and 15 meters (33 and 49 feet). The completed map covers 253,000 square kilometers (97,700 square miles) of shallow coral reefs and captures underwater features in unprecedented detail. It reveals ...

9 Sep 2021

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