climate

Sydney goes dark to kick off Earth Hour climate change campaign

The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark for an hour Saturday to kick off a global campaign raising awareness about the impacts...

Carbon emissions surge due to energy demand and lack of efficiency

Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to 32.5 gigatonnes in 2017, after three years of being flat, due to energy demand and slowdown in energy...

Are companies doing enough to tackle risks from climate change?

There’s a gap between the way companies identify climate-related risks and opportunities and how they are preparing to tackle them, according to a new...

PTI: Donald Trump names India, China to defend his policy on climate change

US president Donald Trump suggests India and China are the main reasons for withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and...

Kyocera wins Japan Environment Ministry’s award again

Kyocera announced that its Hokkaido Kitami Plant has received Japan’s 2017 Environment Minister’s Award for Global Warming Prevention Activity. This is the eighth consecutive year...

Emerging countries lag behind in their commitment to climate change

Two years since the signing of the Paris climate agreement and eight years after Copenhagen, countries on both side of the rich-poor divide are...

Six best practices for mining companies

The question whether development should suffer for the environment or vice versa has been a topic of heated debate among industrialists and environmentalists for...

Why Indian cities must go for low-carbon energy

As India urbanises at a rapid pace, there's a daunting challenge in balancing higher energy use with a development model that is not fossil...