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观点 / 绿色建筑

The case for green affordable housing

By the year 2030, an estimated 3 billion more people will need housing, which will require a massive industrialised housing construction boom if production is to keep up with demand. However, the envi...

12 七月 2019

The case for green affordable housing

新闻 / 企业社会责任

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Bank of China has promised to evaluate a hydroelectric project it is helping fund in Indonesia, which activists say threatens the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest great ape spe...

13 三月 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

新闻 / 碳与气候

Green New Deal aims for triple payback

If you haven’t yet heard of the Green New Deal, chances are that you soon will. To its growing band of supporters, it looks like an idea whose time has come. Just suppose we could see a way to transf...

19 三月 2019

Green New Deal aims for triple payback

观点 / 交通

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

Over the past few years, around the time when Diwali—the Hindu festival of lights and India's biggest holiday—ends and winter sets in, Delhi's air quality has plummeted to dangerous levels, initiating...

22 十一月 2019

To clean Delhi's air, reform its transport system

观点 / 碳与气候

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

You desperately want to book that flight for the family wedding. But the frightening Fourth National Climate Assessment released by the US Global Change Research Program in November has flipped on the...

18 三月 2019

If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets

播客 / 绿色建筑

How do we build zero carbon cities?

Around a third of the world's emissions come from buildings. If humanity is to cap global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the world must reach peak emissions by 2020 and become carbon neutral by 2050—an...

27 二月 2019

How do we build zero carbon cities?

新闻 / 绿色建筑

Beyond going green, the built environment seeks to improve health

Green buildings are better for the planet, but a growing movement of healthy workplaces shows they can be good for people too. Responding to new research that shows the multiple impacts that the built...

25 九月 2019

Beyond going green, the built environment seeks to improve health

新闻 / 政策和金融

Brics turns ten

Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Brazil last week to discuss the future of the Brics bloc.They identified loans supporting sustainable development from the New Develop...

21 十一月 2019

Brics turns ten

新闻 / 能源

How attractive is Asia for renewables?

...renewables than coal for the first time last year, but the uptake of solar and wind has struggled to meet the country's ambitious renewable energy targets. Japan, ranking eighth, has dropped one place...

5 五月 2018

How attractive is Asia for renewables?

新闻 / 政策和金融

Competition fears threaten Chinese investment in US clean tech

In 2011, a Boston-based battery startup took a bet on China. The company, Boston Power, was facing a funding setback when Chinese firm Golden Sand River swooped in with a compelling investment offer....

17 十二月 2018

Competition fears threaten Chinese investment in US clean tech

新闻 / 能源

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

...renewables such as solar accounting for less than 1 per cent, he said. But Jona said the government has plans to develop more clean energy, especially in hard-to-reach communities. "We hope that solar...

7 十一月 2018

Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

新闻 / 能源

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

An estimated 3,700 dams are either planned or under construction in developing countries around the world — including 147 slated for the Amazon basin region. At face value, dams seem like a good deal ...

7 三月 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Tourists taste betel nut in a village in Southeast Asia

观点 / 生活方式

Experiences aren’t always better for the planet—here’s how to make memories sustainably

In the age of FOMO (fear of missing out) and YOLO (you only live once), people are pursuing sensations and memories over material products more than ever. Statistics from Barclaycard show that in the ...

13 十二月 2019

Experiences aren’t always better for the planet—here’s how to make memories sustainably