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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

News / Policy & Finance

India commits to global pacts on eradicating child slavery

...t risk due to poverty. Indian Minister of Labour Bandaru Dattatreya said in statement the ratification reaffirmed the country's "commitment to a child labour free society." The International Labour Or...

19 Jun 2017

India commits to global pacts on eradicating child slavery

News / Carbon & Climate

Make climate change an economic - not green - issue, urges ex-president of Maldives

...their world leadership. They can do that," said Nasheed, who now lives in exile in Britain. "But it's not going to stop the rest of the world. And it's not even going to stop the United States from tr...

18 Apr 2017

Make climate change an economic - not green - issue, urges ex-president of Maldives

News / Carbon & Climate

Wear with care: Stella McCartney helps redesign climate-friendly fashion

...ted, and start using non-polluting materials that are designed to last and could save the industry $500 billion, it said. "The report presents a roadmap for us to create better businesses and a better...

30 Nov 2017

Wear with care: Stella McCartney helps redesign climate-friendly fashion

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What impact investors can learn from activists

...tion, and the activist principles that will enable them to effect real social change. Add more value than you extract A lot of projects are pitched as being better than the status quo, but that doesn...

22 Mar 2018

What impact investors can learn from activists

A woman harvesting mung beans in Cambodia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story

...The Global Footprint Network estimates when Earth Overshoot Day will arrive based on its National Footprint Accounts. These include extensive data sets that the organisation uses to calculate two over...

31 Jul 2018

Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story

Opinion / Water

Water stress threatens nearly half the world’s thermal power plant capacity

...that the real threat may be water. When we overlaid areas of current water scarcity with existing power plant infrastructure, we found that 47 per cent of the world's thermal power plant capacity—most...

17 Apr 2018

Water stress threatens nearly half the world’s thermal power plant capacity

News / Policy & Finance

Commbank's new climate policy 'flagrant hypocrisy', say activists

...ted Eco-Business to the organisation's corporate repsonsibility report, which re-affirms its commitment to a net zero-emissions transition and its desire to play its part to cap global temperature ris...

18 Aug 2017

Commbank's new climate policy 'flagrant hypocrisy', say activists

News / Waste

'Zero-waste' stores put consumers on frontline in fight against packaging

...ternatives to typical throwaway products such as plastic cutlery, razors and sponges. "I want to help people understand that it's not difficult to be sustainable," Caldironi told the Thomson Reuters F...

5 Sep 2017

'Zero-waste' stores put consumers on frontline in fight against packaging

Opinion / Manufacturing

'Sustainable' Lego: plastics from plants won't solve a pollution crisis

...to be passed on to new owners than be broken down into microplastics, although it still contributes to the pollution problem. “ Though plants offer alternatives to oil-based plastics, they can’t yet ...

14 Mar 2018

'Sustainable' Lego: plastics from plants won't solve a pollution crisis

News / Energy

In rush to electrify, Cambodia stirs the living and dead

...tter to provincial authorities, the 62 families holding out in Srekor asked the government to recognise their new settlement as an "indigenous community" with rights to the land. The government should...

5 Jun 2018

In rush to electrify, Cambodia stirs the living and dead

News / Energy

Politics could short-circuit Australia's clean energy future

...tments don't falter after 2020, Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel suggested in a recent review of the country’s electricity market, that Australia adopt a Clean Energy Target (CET) after 2020; t...

27 Jul 2017

Politics could short-circuit Australia's clean energy future

News / Corporate Responsibility

Coca-Cola, Walmart among global firms joining forces for women's equality

...They are huge global systems that include everything from production to transportation, they go from farms to laboratories, from offices to factories. "If we don't learn to work within those systems, ...

5 Dec 2017

Coca-Cola, Walmart among global firms joining forces for women's equality

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

...tivities that contribute to the climate problem and into climate solutions. However, they are just getting started in thinking through and strategizing on how best to respond—and tracking the climate ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

Nurjan Toktomambetova, is a member of self-help group of women entrepreneurs

Opinion / Policy & Finance

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

...tunity to accelerate progress towards gender equality. Movements such as #MeToo have shone the spotlight on an unacceptable status quo and demonstrated how too many women the world over continue to be...

7 Mar 2018

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

Research / Collective Responsibility

Informal waste management in China

...tre The latest addition to our publications series “Informal Waste Management”, a report that we have constructed after interviewing dozens of stakeholders, visiting waste management site...

6 Jul 2017

Informal waste management in China

News / Cities

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

...to take on the challenges of the 21st century. 62 per cent of respondents disagreed with this statement. A constant concern in the dialogues was that cities were restrained in their ability to innovat...

16 Jul 2018

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

...those that do accept that global warming is real and important, they still tend to think of it as distant," Leiserowitz said, both in terms of when impacts will come and where they will happen. That m...

2 Mar 2017

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

News / Policy & Finance

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

...that it is possible to take something that women have for too long kept quiet about and transform it into a powerful movement...The collective female voice is unstoppable – combine this with the trans...

31 Jan 2018

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

News / Waste

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

...t think about how it hurts the environment. They just think about what they want now, and what's on trend,” added Torres. Pointing to a pile of clothes, Torres emphasised that most of the donated clot...

29 Jan 2018

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

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