Tierney Smith
Business focus: Mountain sports company Vaude explain how they’ve cut their carbon footprint
In the build-up to Rio+20 RTCC asked businesses from around the world to send us their stories. Today’s focus is how German clothing company VAUDE was able to measure and improve on its environmental impacts.
Photo of the week #30 – Deforestation and the Amazon’s blue-headed Parrot
The Amazon’s blue-headed Parrot is becoming increasingly vulnerable to deforestation across central and southern America.
New Ocean Health Index shows “room for improvement”
New index aimed at scoring every coastal nation in the world on their contribution to the health of oceans finds a global average of 60 out of 100.
Melting over Greenland ice sheet shatters record, say scientists
Latest data shows melting over the Greenland ice sheet in 2012, has surpassed previous seasonal records – four weeks before the melting season is expected to end.
New report reveals Bangladesh, the Philippines, Myanmar, India and Vietnam at acute risk from climate change
Maplecroft’s Natural Hazards Risk Atlas reveals emerging South Asia’s key economies must build resilience against natural hazards such as flooding and cyclones.
Youth Profile #7: Why Indonesia’s biodiversity is at the front line of the fight against climate change
In RTCC’s latest youth profile Putri Ayusha from Transformasi Hijau talks about changing behavior in Indonesia – the world’s third largest emitter.
Business focus: Creating a closed loop for Cassava production in Vietnam
RTCC has asked businesses from around the world to send us their stories about how they are developing low-carbon closed-loop growth models. Today’s focus is the Huong Hoa Tapioca Starch Plant in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.
New research: Oceans swamped with fresh water make tropical storms 50% more intense
New research finds fresh water in the oceans from rivers and rain could make tropical storms more intense, but what could this mean for a warming world?
Arctic could be ice-free in summer by end of the decade, according to European Space Agency
Images from polar satellite suggest sea ice in the Arctic could be disappearing at a rate 50% higher than previously predicted.
Youth profile #6: Meet the African coalition that brings together 54 countries to tackle climate change
Despite its size and number of voices it represents Africa struggles to get its message heard at the major climate meetings. The African Youth Initiative on Climate Change aims to change that for good.
US says two degree guarantee should be dropped by global climate change deal
US Special Envoy for climate change calls for a ‘flexible’ global deal where countries submit their own targets and less emphasis is placed on the two degree guarantee.
Five ways to green your shopping experience
RTCC goes through five top tips for shoppers who still want to live by the three R’s of sustainability – reduce, reuse and recycle.
Greenland ice loss comes in fits and starts say scientists
New research finds Greenland’s ice sheet melt could happen in short bursts, showing that the melt witnessed between 2005 and 2010 may not have been unprecedented.
One year on: Building resilience in the Horn of Africa
RTCC examines how to build resilience to drought in the Horn of Africa to protect communities from future dry periods.
A picture of Sustainability: What does green living mean for London?
New exhibition, part of London’s summer Pop Spot Festival, asks Londoners to capture their idea of sustainability in just one photo.
Oceans, forests and ecosystems continue to soak up rising man-made carbon emissions, for now, say scientists
New research shows that while a slow down of carbon absorption of the planet’s ecosystems is projected, today they continue to keep up with the rising levels of emissions being released into the atmosphere.
Photo of the week #28: Thailand’s famous and endangered water lilies
This week’s IUCN photo of the week is of a water lily, which relies heavily on clean water and healthy ecosystems to flourish
Report: World’s air pollution could be as bad as China’s by 2050 without urgent action from governments
Research in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics journal suggests pollution and toxins in air could be ‘normal’ if new regulations are not adopted
Crowdfunding: A new source of finance for sustainability and renewable energy
In an age of austerity and bank collapses could Crowdfunding provide a long-term and sustainable form of finance for renewable energy and other ‘green’ schemes?
Youth Profile #5: Bangladeshi youth fight to give world’s second most climate vulnerable country a voice
In the fifth in RTCC’s youth series, Abdullah Al Razwan Nabin from the Bangladesh Youth Movement for Climate talks about building capacity in the world’s 2nd most vulnerable country.