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Energy
Renewables options needed in the Philippines despite grid limitations: clean energy advocates
EB Studio
The country’s latest green energy auction might have been hampered by issues with transmission lines, but experts say this should not stop businesses from expanding their renewables use. Battery storage could be a solution.
As illegal sand mines continue to harm river ecosystems and communities in India, a non-profit initiative launching this month empowers journalists, activists and concerned citizens with data.
Policy & Finance
Green buildings: Ending the demolish and rebuild cycle in China
What is being done to lower the emissions footprint of new buildings, and retrofit old ones with insulation and low carbon-heating?
Investment in carbon-sucking technology is lagging. Governments and businesses must spend US$130 billion a year on the tech needed to avoid climate calamity, a report from McKinsey finds.
Policy & Finance
Unaccounted deaths plague sand mining operations in India
#cement Opinion
The transition towards sustainable practices in heavy industries such as steel and cement production is a challenging task. It is called one of the ‘hard to abate’ sectors for this reason.
Policy & Finance
Food, not steel, is our biggest climate challenge
Since 2006, the estimated costs of achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions from the world’s energy, building, industrial, and transport systems have plummeted. In most sectors, a green transition will cost consumers little.
Green Buildings
How fungi can help create a green construction industry
The building and construction industry contributes 39 per cent of the world’s carbon footprint. How can fungi help reduce the sector's material and energy use?
Carbon & Climate
What locally led climate resilience looks like in the Philippines
Faced with forced relocation, the people of Pasig City in the Philippines designed their own climate-resilient neighbourhood.
Manufacturing
Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment
Carbon & Climate
Carbon majors and climate justice
#cement Videos
Green Buildings
Frank Gehry’s ‘brown paper bag’ is green
The newly opened Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology, Sydney boasts more than 25 sustainable design features and has been awarded a 5-Star Green Star rating by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Green Buildings
CDL Green Gallery: Heritage meets sustainability
EB Studio
The CDL Green Gallery at the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Museum is the first zero-energy gallery in Singapore. Eco-Business profiles the cutting-edge technologies that have helped achieve this.
Carbon & Climate
Satellite zooms in on crucial carbon questions
The ability of scientists to make accurate predictions about future effects of CO2 will be boosted by vital data from a US satellite being launched to take a detailed inventory of the planet’s sinks and sources of carbon.
Green Buildings
Build 10 houses in 24 hours with recycled construction waste
Add this to China's mass manufacturing ability: a 3D printer in Shanghai can build 10 houses within 24 hours by repurposing China's 1.5 billion tonnes of construction waste into 'ink'.
#cement Press Releases
Blue Planet Environmental Solutions
Blue Planet moves closer to ‘zero waste to landfill’ vision with new green building solution
