Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case
Backers of Kenya’s Lamu coal plant have been instructed by the courts to conduct a new environmental impact assessment and halt work on the project, in a ruling celebrated by local environmental groups.
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Brazilian conservationists develop new tool to cut illegal wood from supply chains
Companies that want to buy Brazilian timber without contributing to illegal deforestation have a new tool to help them ensure stolen wood does not appear in their supply chains - a digital platform tracing
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BRICS face USD 51 billion annual shortfall for clean energy
Financing clean energy infrastructure was high on the agenda at the BRICS Leaders’ Summit in Goa last month. But recent research has found that the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
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Timber trading platform aims to increase transparency, legality
An online tool now allows timber traders to verify the sustainability of their purchases from important tropical timber countries such as Brazil and Indonesia. More than ever before, global consumers
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Prepare for 'surprise' as global warming stokes Arctic shifts- scientists
Unless the world stops burning fossil fuels that are fuelling global warming, irreversible changes in the Arctic could have disastrous effects for the people that live there and for the rest of the planet,
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Put ‘people, not cars’ first in transport systems, says UN Environment chief
Lack of investment in safe walking and cycling infrastructure not only contributes to the deaths of millions of people in traffic accidents on unsafe roads and poorly designed roadways, but also overlooks
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Fabric creates energy for power dressing
Scientists in the US and China have fashioned the ultimate in power dressing: a fabric that recovers energy from movement, and at the same time turns sunlight into electricity. It may be a while before
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SE Asian governments dismiss finding that 2015 haze killed 100,300
The health ministries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have played down a study by Harvard and Columbia universities estimating a mean of more than 100,000 premature deaths resulting from the 2015
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Scientists: How the new focus on 1.5C is reshaping climate research
Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C has long been the goal of developing countries and those most at risk from climate change. Since becoming enshrined in the Paris Agreement last December, the 1.5C
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Large ivory seizures in Singapore make it a smuggling hub of “primary concern”
Large-scale seizures of ivory in Singapore over the last three years make the south-east Asian city-state one of the world’s premier ivory smuggling hubs for organised crime, say conservation watchdogs.
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Renewables establish economic lead
New analysis shows the cost of energy from renewables is already lower on average than from fossil fuels, and will soon be even cheaper. The cheapest way of generating energy today is to use renewable