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Brazilian authorities have completed a rare ground operation to protect an uncontacted tribe from violent ranchers in a region of the Amazon with the highest rate of illegal deforestation in the country. But there are growing fears that unless the remaining steps in the land protection process fo

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/18/2018

Conservationists clash over coral reefs

Globally, coral restoration has expanded over the past 15 years. Researchers at the University of California have counted more than 150 operations transplanting nursery-raised corals to degraded reefs in the Caribbean, for example.

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Migration , Resources , SDGs , Soil , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/16/2018

Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement

Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat climate change, was further weakened in the details as the work programme was signed off in the annual UN climate summit A Paris Agreement Work Progr

Aid , Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/14/2018

Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience

Afghanistan is one of the frontline countries taking forward affordable ecosystem-based solutions to reducing disaster risk.

Aid , Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , Energy , Environment , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development / 12/08/2018

World Bank Group Announces $200 billion over Five Years for Climate Action

By ramping up direct adaptation finance to reach around $50 billion over FY 21-25, the World Bank will, for the first time, give this equal emphasis alongside investments that reduce emissions.

Business , Corruption , Environment , Featured , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 12/05/2018

Calls for Police Protection for Uncontacted Tribe

Survival has launched an emergency action, “4 weeks for the Kawahiva”, to encourage Brazil’s government to map out their land and prevent their genocide before Jair Bolsonaro becomes President on 1 January.

Cities , Environment , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/02/2018

Indian Cities need multi-pronged efforts to conserve groundwater

For more than two billion people across the world aquifers are the primary water source but the shocking reality is that key groundwater basins in all the inhabited continents are being drained.

Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Featured , Governance , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 11/30/2018

State and Regional Governments Decarbonizing at Double the Rate of G20 Governments

This year, 37 governments from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico disclosed, and Latin America became the second largest group of disclosing governments after Europe.

Business , Climate , Energy , Environment , Sustainable Development / 11/29/2018

HSBC CEO Slammed For Coal Double-Standard at Climate Finance Summit

Activists hijack twitter feed and confront HSBC over discriminatory coal policy Activists continued their campaign against HSBC’s CEO John Flint and his bank’s double standard when it comes to coal finance. As HSBC attempted to paint itself in a green-light (as a sponsor of the UN’s premiere C

Climate , Energy , Environment , Resources , Science & Technology , Solutions , Transport / 11/28/2018

From German Trains to South Korean Buses, Hydrogen Fuel is back in the Energy Picture

Bianca Nogrady As the price of renewable energy drops and storage technologies mature, hydrogen fuel is drawing fresh attention. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis was refueling his hydrogen fuel-cell car at one of the 50-plus refueling stations scattered around Germany when a Tesla driver, who was re

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