Sustainability Insights

Following China, India is the second most populated country in the world. Prior to late 1980s, India’s economic development was sluggish and slow with the annual growth rate around 3.5% from 1950s to 1980s and per capita income growth of 1%. Yet, in the mid-1980s...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Its recent climate change and land report, is the response to the 2016 Panel decision to prepare three Special Reports during the Sixth...

“Climate change is real. It is happening right now…” these were the words spoken by renowned actor, producer and environmentalist Leonardo Dicaprio at the Oscars in 2016. This is evident even today as fires rage in the bushlands of Australia in what is recorded as one...

During the last two year, the media has been obsessed with Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. The unprecedented activism coming from a teenager says a lot not only about...

With the current state of our climate, rapid change to reduce resource consumption and carbon emissions across all industries has never before been more urgent. Why not start with buildings? Given modern lifestyles, moving about from home to work to cafes,...

 European Union (EU) environmental policy has brought many positive changes and largely contributed to the protection of the environment and public health across Europe. The EU and national governments have been setting and updating their objectives to "protect,...