A team takes a look at a city's policy and politics, community organization, and infrastructure to see if it can survive climate change.
Like many Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia must decide how to supply its fast-growing energy demand.A new quantitative tool, the Indonesia Energy Policy Simulator (EPS), can help policymakers explore various avenues to leapfrog high-carbon development through energy efficiency and clean energy
Surprising no one, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement last week, highlighting the depth of his commitment to keep “America First.”
The present value of the damage caused by human-caused climate change from a moderate warming scenario is an astonishing $400 trillion, according to analysis from Cambridge University’s Judge…
Al Mana Restaurants & Food Company, the owner and operator of McDonald’s franchise in Qatar, has announced that the fast food chain’s Qatar operations are well on their way to reducing environmental footprint as well as adopting innovative approaches to waste management.
“An initial project is often just that—the first step in a company’s energy journey.”
A new survey finds utility execs want a federal carbon policy and want to reform policies for distributed energy resources.
Eco-friendly travel is already very popular among many European holidaymakers – however, sustainable tourism also entails major challenges. This is the result of a global survey carried out by TUI Group. The representative survey among more than 3,000 respondents examined people’s attitude to sustainable travel in Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. They were people who had travelled in the past two years, not necessarily with TUI. It has shown that as many as one
Capital markets don't give companies brownie points for being sustainable, experts suggested at a recent EB event. Asia's sustainability crowd was united in its disagreement.
Business sustainability is a great opportunity for start-ups and small businesses to focus on. Not only is it a way to create long-term, sustainable success, but it's also a way to attract employees (younger generations expressly value sustainability), investors and business partners.
Cloud computing providers signed contracts for more than 1.2 gigawatts of renewable power for their data centers in 2016.
Unlike traditional manufacturing jobs, green jobs in the clean energy industry have been on a steady upward swing.
At Thursday's White House press briefing Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said spending money on climate change is a waste of money. "Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward -- we're not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that. So that is a specific tie to his campaign," Mulvaney told reporters. From Thursday's briefing: QUESTION: Can you explain a little bit more about what message the President is trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change research, as you mentioned earlier? And just a follow-up later when you get a chance. DIRECTOR MULVANEY: Sure. A couple different messages. When we talked about science and climate change, let's deal with them separately. On science, we're going to function -- we're going to focus on the core function. There's reductions, for example, I think, in the NIH -- the National Institutes of Health...
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