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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

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

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 / 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

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

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

News / Food & Agriculture

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

...trol has got zero deforestation and zero exploitation. I think I'm fairly clear about deforestation, but exploitation is something that can be okay today and not tomorrow.” “It is a constant battle to...

10 Jul 2018

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

News / Carbon & Climate

With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air

...t a similar programme to fight another environmental risk: air pollution. Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, has among the worst air pollution in the country. But it is the first to install a...

10 Jul 2017

With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air

News / Cities

China infrastructure plan can help Asia's growing cities - expert

...t to become the first 100RC member in China to publish its resilience strategy in May, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of a devastating earthquake that hit the city. While there is still far to ...

18 Jan 2018

China infrastructure plan can help Asia's growing cities - expert

Kesara Manchusree, president, Stock Exchange of Thailand

News / Corporate Responsibility

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

...to be done to preach to the unconverted. There is some way to go to improve the quality of reporting, she adds. "I think Thai people are naturally better at getting things done than writing about what...

17 Oct 2017

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

...t if he doesn't, then definitely it is going to create more harm for children, as they are often the biggest victims of disasters." A prominent child rights activist, Satyarthi said disasters were alr...

9 Jun 2017

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

Videos / Policy & Finance

Nepali women row against tide of discrimination on tourist lake

...tell them we can't even get a cup of tea with 10 or 20 rupees but foreigners don't understand us. We don't understand them, so whatever little they give, we just accept it," she said. To boost their e...

21 Feb 2017

Nepali women row against tide of discrimination on tourist lake

News / Energy

Brahmaputra boat clinic goes solar, powering up rural healthcare

...trip to the mainland to just get a filling done," he explained. The first of 15 Indian boat clinics to go solar, the S. B. Nahor has for the first time brought a dentist to the doorstep of tens of tho...

1 Nov 2017

Brahmaputra boat clinic goes solar, powering up rural healthcare

Press Releases / Redress

Redress searches worldwide for best sustainable fashion talent

...ted with the theory and techniques to enable them to create sustainable clothing via zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction. The competition puts emerging sustainable design talent in the spotlight...

16 Jan 2017

Redress searches worldwide for best sustainable fashion talent

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

...tical currents threaten climate finance, then it is more important than ever to demonstrate how to get money where it matters – to communities at the frontlines of climate change. One year into the T...

8 Jan 2018

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Opinion / Manufacturing

How robot cleaners are changing the image of the cleaning industry

...to clean three times the area in the same amount of time, without the need for breaks. The robots can also be programmed to travel along the planned route, sensing and reacting to obstacles along the ...

16 Jun 2017

How robot cleaners are changing the image of the cleaning industry

News / Manufacturing

Five years on from Rana Plaza, has the fashion industry changed its ways?

...t take that first step [to be more sustainable] is that critics say they’re just being tokenistic.” “My response to that is to address it by developing a long-term action plan and demonstrate that you...

25 Apr 2018

Five years on from Rana Plaza, has the fashion industry changed its ways?

A farmer in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia sits beside his crops

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided—so why isn't this happening?

...Trade and Development and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology—farming that imitates natural ecosystems—is the most promising pathway to sust...

28 Mar 2018

We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided—so why isn't this happening?

News / Energy

Trump's 'stupid' solar tax won't hurt Asian firms but will harm US jobs, say experts

...The tariff is the latest measure from the Trump administration to hamstring the global movement to fight climate change by boosting the renewable energy sector. Trump announced in June last year that...

24 Jan 2018

Trump's 'stupid' solar tax won't hurt Asian firms but will harm US jobs, say experts

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