Marginal improvements insufficient to meet 2050 goal, 8% to 10% annual reductions needed

Singapore-based carbon credit exchange Climate Impact X (CIX) has tapped Nasdaq’s cloud-based SaaS technology to power its spot trading platform for carbon credits. Slated for launch in early 2023, the platform will enable two-way spot trading via standardized contracts, increasing access to transparent pricing signals and real-time market data.

Beats out Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo to rank among Australasia’s best for commercial real estate

The world can remain locked into a costly, inefficient, polluting future that empowers only a handful of fossil fuel-rich countries, such as Russia. Or we can choose a green revolution of low-cost energy for all that keeps our future secure from pollution, global warming and dictators

Regularly tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance from the one that emerges from domestic product (GDP)-based analysis. And public awareness of this revised view of reality could well mobilize support for fundamental different policies at the national and international level

Club aims to forge cooperation on climate change, push for decarbonization of industrial sectors

There is no question that the world must cut its reliance on fossil fuels. But building more hydroelectric dams – especially in highly biodiverse river basins, such as the Amazon, the Brahmaputra, the Congo and the Mekong – is not the way to do it

Although US President Joe Biden has now identified inflation as his top economic-policy priority, his administration’s efforts to ameliorate the problem have been ineffective and even counterproductive. As if that weren’t bad enough, most of its recent actions run counter to its professed environmental and climate goals

As global temperatures increase, the world's dense, heavily paved urban jungles are increasingly being exposed to extreme heat, with their poorer inhabitants facing the greatest risks. Fortunately, the basic components of sustainable urban cooling are well known, and most are affordable.

Calculated travel emissions savings retire corresponding amounts of carbon neutrality tokens

Carbon credit exchange Climate Impact X (CIX) is collaborating with Respira International, a carbon finance business, to hold a major auction of nature-based carbon credits. The auction will offer access to 600,000 tonnes of voluntary carbon credits from three key projects in Respira’s portfolio via an interactive and transparent bidding process supporting competitive price discovery.

Difficulty in monitoring emissions, concern over food prices shielded sector from pressure

Just when the world desperately needs more international cooperation to address common problems like climate change, Covid-19 rising debt and food prices, the principal mechanism for coordinating such efforts is all but defunct. Its decline is both a harbinger and a cause of the global turmoil that awaits