New Zealand’s Winter Shorter by a Month Over 100 Years

Studies by National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research show season has contracted equally at its beginning and end New Zealand’s winter has gotten shorter by a month over the last 100 years, meaning “true winter” weather with very low temperatures, frosts and snow starts significantly later in the year...

Climate Change Already Bringing Disease, Air Pollution and Heatwaves

Heatwaves, pollution and disease are the main health issues linked to global warming but action to halt emissions would deliver huge benefits The health of hundreds of millions of people around the world is already being damaged by climate change, a major report has revealed. Heatwaves are affecting many more vulnerable...

Country Diary: A Storm Here is A Spectator​​ Sport of the Utmost Drama

Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire To see how many features I once climbed have been battered away by wave and wind is a salutary lesson in human ambition Meadowsweet still flowered along lanes through an obscenity of tank ranges; grasses riffled and glistened in the verges; far offshore, Lundy dipped in and out of...

In-House Training CSR & Strategic Social Investment Program – PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PT PJB)

  Dalam pelatihan ini, metode belajar yang diterapkan berupa paparan oleh narasumber, diskusi kelas, studi kasus, serta asistensi untuk pendalaman materi oleh Tim SII. Narasumber adalah profesional dan praktisi berpengalaman pada berbagai aspek penerapan CSR, termasuk pelibatan dan pengembangan masyarakat. Pelatihan direncanakan berlangsung selama 2 hari, dengan usulan sistematika sebagai berikut: Hari...

Pelaksanaan SROI Training #Batch3 di Bandung

  Tanggal Selayaknya sebuah investasi, maka pengembangan atau pemberdayaan masyarakat sebagai investasi sosial juga harus mempunyai batasan waktu investasi dan dapat diukur dampak dari investasinya (return on investment). Materialitas adalah sesuatu yang akan berpengaruh pada keputusan, tindakan dan kinerja suatu organisasi atau pemangku kepentingan. Materialitas ini dapat dilakukan dengan 2 tapisan:...

New Data Gives Hope for Meeting the Paris Climate Targets

Global carbon pollution appears to be close to peaking Over the past half-century, growth in the global economy and carbon pollution have been tied together. When the global economy has been strong, we’ve consumed more energy, which has translated into burning more fossil fuels and releasing more carbon pollution. But...

SIOLA: Investasi Sosial di Usia Emas

Jalal Chairperson of Advisory Board Social Investment Indonesia Tak banyak lembaga swadaya masyarakat lokal yang ngotot untuk membuat program berdasarkan data yang kokoh. Namun, siapapun yang berkunjung ke kantor Yayasan Karampuang di Mamuju, Sulawesi Barat, akan mendapati kesan bahwa yayasan itu benar-benar hanya mau melakukan apa yang menurut data memang perlu dilakukan. Dua...

Have psychologists found a better way to persuade people to save the planet?

Recent studies linking people’s views on social inequality to how they think and act on environmental issues could prove crucial to changing their behaviour In the 1990s, psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, developed a scientific theory to account for all the prejudice and violence in the world. Social...

Natural Gas Emissions Will Blow Europe’s Carbon Budget at Current Levels

Governments have been underestimating methane emissions from gas and must phase out the fossil fuel, along with coal and oil, by 2035 to keep within Paris climate targets, a major study shows Governments have drastically underestimated methane emissions from natural gas and will miss the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting...

Syria signs Paris climate agreement and leaves US isolated

Syria’s decision means America will be the only country outside the landmark deal if it follows through with Donald Trump’s vow to leave Syria has decided to sign the Paris agreement on climate change, the world’s final functioning state to do so. The surprise decision, taken amid a brutal civil war...