Singapore, August 12 - Somewhere off the coast of Invergordon in Scotland on Thursday, the world’s largest tidal turbine will be installed, marking a turning point in the global renewable tidal energy industry.
Singapore, August 6 - Singapore’s regulators are raising the energy efficiency bar for new buildings from December as they step up the drive for a leaner and greener economy. The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) announced on Thursday that all new buildings will have to comply with a higher Green Mark standard calling for an additional 10 per cent of energy savings in buildings from the current standard.
Singapore, August 3 - Local firms were honoured for their green business practices by the Singapore Environment Council at its annual Singapore Environmental Achievement Awards (SEAA) on Tuesday.
SEC said on Tuesday both organisations were committed to reaching out to local manufacturers to spread the message that sustainable manufacturing is key to gearing for an imminent shift towards a green global supply chain.
Singapore, July 23 - Singapore shone at the annual Asean Energy Awards in Vietnam yesterday, winning five awards, four of which clinched top honours in their categories. Home-grown firm Eco Special Waste Management, which won the top prize in the Renewable Energy Project off-grid category, impressed judges with its Tuas sludge incineration plant - a first in Singapore and also in South-east Asia.
Singapore, July 13 - Natural gas will be the ‘bridge’ or transition fuel as the global economy moves from fossil fuels to renewable and alternative energy over the next century, said Chesapeake Energy Corp executive vice-president Marcus Rowland yesterday. The company is the third-largest natural gas producer in the United States.
Singapore, July 2010 - Here in Singapore as a guest speaker for the World Cities Summit, Mrs Tibaijuka speaks on eliminating slums, lifting poverty even while tackling the growing problem of climate change and working towards a global climate treaty.
Singapore, July 9 - Temasek Holdings unit SingBridge International Singapore unveiled its vision yesterday to be a global ‘master developer’ of cities that are not only sustainable but also economically viable.
Singapore, June 29 - Strong political will and good policies which provide affordable housing and access to finance are key to developing a city without slums, a top United Nations official said on Sunday.
Singapore, 28 June - Cities might be the greatest consumers of resources and energy, but they are also hotbeds of innovation and ideas which can offer solutions to these very challenges posed by cities, said Singapore’s deputy prime minister Teo Chee Hean at the opening ceremony of the World Cities Summit.
Singapore, 28 June - This time two years ago, the inaugural World Cities Summit hosted by Singapore - the world’s first international conference on public governance and the sustainable development of cities - attracted hundreds of delegates.
FROM cooking oil to soap, palm oil plays a ubiquitous role in the average Singaporean’s daily life.
But not many people here understand how important the industry is in South-east Asia - let alone the dynamics of the power play behind it.
Singapore, June 7 - Mid-sized enterprises, foreign and local alike, are sprouting in Singapore in the nascent but booming clean technology or “cleantech” industry. Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) now estimates that such small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will contribute as much as half of economic output from the cleantech sector by 2015.
London, June 4 - Academics have warned that promises by the world’s developed countries of billions of “new and additional” dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change is meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds.
Singapore, June 2 - Singapore’s industrial landlord JTC Corp has pledged to take action if there is evidence that its sand importers have breached their contract.
Singapore, June 1 - Panasonic Asia Pacific announced on Tuesday it has exceeded its sustainability targets for 2009 and has set out a vision to be the “No.1 Green Innovation Company” in the electronics industry by 2018.
Singapore, May 31 - Singapore property giant CapitaLand has published its first Sustainability Report, which provides comprehensive details of the company’s corporate governance, environmental, human capital development and philanthropic initiatives.
New York, May 17 — Investing around $8 billion a year in rebuilding and greening the world’s fisheries could raise catches to 112 million tonnes annually while triggering benefits to industry, consumers and the global economy totalling $1.7 trillion over the next 40 years. These are among findings of a landmark report compiled by the UNEP and economists titled the Green Economy.
Beijing, May 13 - A joint China Mobile and WWF study has demonstrated the huge potential of low carbon solutions in the telecommunications sector. Some of these solutions in 2008 had reduced an amount of carbon emissions similar to the total emissions of countries like Sweden, Denmark or Finland, said WWF China in a statement.
Singapore, May 12 - The Bosch Group officially opened its new Robert Bosch headquarters for ASEAN countries today and pledged to continue research and development into resource-saving and environmental protection solutions.
Sydney, May 12 - Property services group Colliers International have announced the launch of a powerful new environmental management system – Envirometrics – for the corporate real estate sector.
Singapore, May 5 - Seven local firms were honoured for its sustainable business practices at the inaugural Singapore Sustainability Awards 2010.
Singapore, April 19 - Major countries in East Asia will have to invest an additional US$80 billion per year, or US$1.6 trillion into low-carbon technologies for the next two decades to stabilize the region’s growing carbon emissions.
Singapore, April 13 - Singapore-based Phoenix Solar has completed Singapore’s largest commercial photovoltaic (PV) rooftop installation, using the latest thin film solar technology on Applied Materials’ new Singapore Operations Centre.
IT’S been more than two months since the high-level Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) report was launched, and while the buzz that followed the launch has mostly focused on how to raise Singapore’s productivity, there is a lower-profile but equally important aspect of the report that deserves more attention: Transforming Singapore into a smart energy economy.
Singapore, 30 March - Singapore’s industrial landlord JTC Corp has unveiled the first cutting-edge building to be built at Singapore’s recently-announced Cleantech Park for green businesses on Nanyang Avenue.
Singapore, 29 March - A Singapore research institute today announced a partnership with Sweden’s Linkoping University to pursue research on environmental technologies such as remanufacturing, clean production technology processes and industrial symbiosis.
Melbourne, 25 March - Global engineering and construction company Black & Veatch has confirmed that it will be part of the Eastern Tertiary Alliance that will deliver the Tertiary Upgrade of the Eastern Treatment Plant in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the largest activated sludge plant in the country.
London, 19 March - Chief executive of energy giant Royal Dutch Shell Peter Voser believes that a third of energy demand by 2050 will be supplied by alternative energies. “That means an enormous growth rate for alternative energies,” he said, speaking to reporters this week at the group’s annual strategy meeting.
Singapore, 8 March – A unit of Singapore-listed water firm Hyflux has been awarded a S$43.8 million contract by the TP Utilities, a unit of power company Tuas Power, to undertake the engineering,
procurement and construction (“EPC”) works for stage one of the Tembusu Seawater
Desalination Plant.
Sydney, 3 March - Recent research from global commercial property services firm, Jones Lang LaSalle, shows investor appetite for sustainable investments has not been dampened by the global economic downturn and in fact has returned as a stronger investment driver than ever before.
Singapore, 2 March - Singapore’s solar PV (photovoltaic) system integrator, SolarGy, has won the Frost & Sullivan 2010 Singapore Market Penetration Leadership Award in the Solar PV Systems Market.
Singapore, 25 February - Singapore’s burgeoning clean technology industry is getting a new business park that will be the city-state’s greenest and will help create 20,000 green collar jobs by 2030.
Singapore, 9 February - South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corporation has clinched a major deal worth up to $1 billion to build Singapore’s first liquefied national gas (LNG) terminal.
Singapore, 5 February - Singapore’s energy sources may be diversified into coal and electricity imports in the medium-term, and nuclear energy in the long run. A high-level committee has also recommended that Singapore supply five per cent of its peak electricity demand from renewables by 2020.
Singapore, 4 February - The CarbonNeutral company is piloting a web-based carbon management programme which will involve real-time reporting of carbon emissions by six Singapore-based organisations.
Bonn, 1 February - The United Nations climate body said it has received submissions of national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries, who together account for 78 per cent of global emissions from energy use.
Singapore, 26 January 2010 – Companies in Asia Pacific are showing signs of increasing their level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure on the environment, according to the annual survey The Asian Sustainability Rating conducted by CSR Asia.
Singapore, 25 January - Singapore-based firm Optiqua Technologies has been recognised for its innovative water contamination detection and sensing technologies.
Singapore, 20 January - WHEN Singapore’s first integrated resort Resorts World Sentosa opens today, it will boast the city’s biggest solar photovoltaic (PV) system, generating 629,000 kilowatt hours of solar energy a year.
Abu Dhabi, 19 January - Malaysia’s Tenaga Nasional could be legally required to buy renewable energy under new laws being drawn up by the Government, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
Singapore, 18 January - Homegrown firm Ecospec Global Technology has taken a step closer to setting its proven CSNOx system as a standard for emission control in onshore heavy industries.
Berlin, 17 January - As climate change poses a great challgenge to China’s agricultural sector, the government and farmers should tackle it in a scientific and systematic way, Chinese Vice Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun said in an interview with Xinhua.
Singapore, 12 January - Despite the failure to reach a legally binding agreement on climate change at the recent United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Singapore will commence to implement measures to reduce its carbon emissions, said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim yesterday.
California, 6 January - US-BASED Innovalight, a private firm that sells silicon ink-based solar cell materials and technology has raised US$18 million of additional capital to expand production, led by Singapore’s Economic Development Board Investments (EDBI).
AFTER two weeks of what was billed as “the historic event of the 21st century”, I left Copenhagen with a bag full of mixed feelings.
Copenhagen, December 22 - Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful “deal” so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen.
Copenhagen, December 19 - Delegates at the Copenhagen summit have passed a motion recognising a US-backed agreement on climate change. But correspondents say it is not yet clear whether the motion is unanimous or what its legal implications are.
Copenhagen - December 18 - WORLD leaders assembled in Copenhagen on the final day of a 12-day summit in a last-ditch attempt to ink the world’s first comprehensive treaty on climate change.
Copenhagen, December 17 - As hopes faded and talks faltered for a strong climate deal, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject new life in the UN negotiations today by announcing the US would join others in raising US$100 billion a year by 2020 to help poorer nations tackle climate change.
Copenhagen, December 15 - BUSINESS and sub-national leaders met in Copenhagen today to announce new low-carbon initiatives ahead of action by global leaders to ink a climate change deal.
Copenhagen, December 14 - TALKS were suspended at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen on Monday just before noon, following a protest led by African countries.
Copenhagen, December 12 - AFTER a week of bleak cloudy weather, the skies cleared on Saturday as the sun shone on tens of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets of Copenhagen to demand a global deal from world leaders to tackle climate change.
Copenhagen, December 11 - SINGAPORE firm Ecospec Global Technology has tied up with several European companies to cooperate on mitigating emissions from the shipping industry.
Copenhagen, December 11 - THE rift is widening between developed and developing nations as talks on a global treaty to tackle climate change moves into its fifth day in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, December 10 — IFC, a member of the World Bank
Group, and Standard & Poor’s are launching the world’s first carbon efficient
index for emerging markets that should mobilize more than $1 billion for
carbon-efficient companies over the next three years.
Copenhagen, 10 December - Despite China’s pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say.
Copenhagen, December 8 - IT has only been two days into the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, but already warring factions and tensions are threatening to derail the negotiations.
Copenhagen, December 8 - The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.
Copenhagen, December 8 - THE principles behind making a home green are not rocket science - turning off the power mains, using sustainable materials and furniture, installing energy efficient appliances and recycling as much as possible are but some fundamental rules to follow.
Copenhagen, December 8 - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has brought the aviation industry’s environmental goals to Copenhagen. Industry players are calling for a global approach to reducing aviation emissions and are united in a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 50% compared to 2005 levels by 2050.
India, December 7 - Just as its economy powers ahead, it is told to curb the engines of growth
Copenhagen, 7 December - POLITICAL will to forge a new global treaty to tackle climate change will never be stronger, and delegates simply cannot fail, climate leaders said on Monday at the opening of the highly-anticipated climate change talks in Copenhagen.
London, December 6 - Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s richest man, stands to benefit from a £1 billion windfall from a European scheme to curb global warming. His company ArcelorMittal, the steel business where he is chairman and chief executive, will make the gain on “carbon credits” given to it under the European emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Copenhagen, December 6 – One day ahead of the historic UN Climate
Change Conference in Copenhagen, the UN’s top climate change official
expressed confidence that the meeting would deliver a comprehensive,
ambitious and effective international climate change deal.
December 5 - The head of a United Nations panel said it will investigate claims that scientists manipulated data about global warming, days before climate-change talks in Copenhagen.
Singapore, December 3 - SINGAPORE’S leaders yesterday put on the table the country’s first ever target to curb greenhouse gas emissions, throwing its political weight behind the upcoming climate change meetings in Copenhagen next week.
Singapore, December 2 - SINGAPORE’S leaders have thrown their political weight behind the upcoming climate change negotiations in Copenhagen by pledging to cut the city-state’s carbon emissions growth by 16 per cent below “business as usual” levels by 2020.
Copenhagen, New Delhi - November 30 - The world should agree to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels as part of a U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen in mid-December, according to a suggested text by hosts Denmark.
New York, November 29- IN THE optimistic view, Barack Obama has given a jolt of energy to the Copenhagen climate talks. But cynics can spin the news the other way.
London, November 29 - There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.
Beijing, November 29- A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries at next month’s climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
Beijing, November 27 - Three little letters could spell big trouble for global climate change negotiations even after China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced its first firm goals to curb emissions.
Beijing, November 26 - China announced its first targets for limiting carbon emissions on Thursday, joining the United States in revealing the stance it will take at next month’s high-stakes climate summit.
Washington, November 26 - Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month’s Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
Washington, November 24 - The White House said today it would go to the Copenhagen climate change summit with a proposed target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after facing international pressure to commit to stronger action on climate change.
Singapore, November 24 - Singapore’s smart grid will employ a range of technologies to make the electricity grid smarter, and help reduce the country’s carbon footprint. Includes Q&A interview with Energy Market Authority chief executive Lawrence Wong.
London, November 24 - Solar energy costs will drop by half in 2009 while other low-carbon technology costs will see their pre-subsidy costs drop by 10-20 percent, renewable energy analysts said on Monday.
Kuala Lumpur, November 23 - Malaysia will take a consultative approach, rather than confrontational, in dealing with anti-palm oil campaign, the Dewan Rakyat was told Monday.
Jakarta, November 23 - A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report sent to the United Nations on Monday said, although it did not provide its own ranking.
Singapore, 23 November 2009 – Mainboard-listed ecoWise Holdings, a renewable energy and environmental services firm, has been awarded a contract build a biomass plant at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay at Marina South,
November 23 - Hopes for the Copenhagen climate summit in December have been boosted after it emerged more than 60 presidents and prime ministers planned to attend.
New York, November 23 - Energy consumption targets already planned by China would contribute 25% of what needs to be done globally to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said Monday.
London, November 20 - Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today.
Singapore, 19 November 2009 – Singapore-based water firm Hyflux launches its New Innovation Centre and Production Hub and will invest $120 million over the next three to five years.
Singapore celebrates the inauguration of the new premises of its Solar Energy Research Institute – SERIS. Its cutting-edge laboratories offer industry-focused research and development in diverse areas in solar energy.
Singapore/Putrajaya, November 19 - MALAYSIA will soon implement the feed-in tariff like Germany to enable users to sell excess power to the power grid, said Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Peter Chin. Phoenix Solar has also completed a solar installation on Malaysia’s Diamond Building.
PUTRAJAYA, November 17 - MALAYSIA will have to first have a plan to increase demand for renewable energy sources like solar panels if it is to truly promote the use of cheaper and more environment friendly power sources, said Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui.
Singapore’s energy body, the Energy Market Authority, has launched the Smart Energy Challenge to provide seed funding of up to S$5 million per project for innovative energy ideas that meet Singapore’s energy needs.
CUTTING carbon emissions is going to cost countries a lot and achieve fairly little good, said a controversial climate expert on Saturday at the Apec CEO summit.
HSBC Holdings group chairman Stephen Green gives a speech at the Apec summit in Singapore. Carbon has to be priced properly, he says.
SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The United States, China and other APEC members should turn the fight against climate change into an opportunity to boost clean-energy trade and development, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Third annual sustainability survey by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle finds that companies are investing funds selectively to achieve sustainability goals.
Singapore, 9 November, 2009 – As global political and business leaders convene in Singapore this week for the 20th APEC meeting to tackle issues that include sustainable development, a new website that focuses on sustainability and business goes live today.
(Barcelona, 6 November 2009) – The last negotiating session before the historic UN Climate
Change Conference in Copenhagen in December concluded Friday in Barcelona, Spain.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer reiterated that Copenhagen must result in a strong international climate change deal.
SINGAPORE — Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting.
Despite ongoing uncertainty about the global economic situation, spending by the world’s biggest companies to develop or acquire cleantech solutions is robust and primed to accelerate, according to a new Ernst & Young survey of more than 300 corporate executives worldwide.
Barcelona UN Climate Change Talks to put in place solid foundation for success at Copenhagen
Climate change could pose a threat to national security with thousands of small islands that border the country at risk from rising sea levels.
The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development is warning that international law is inadequate to deal with the millions of people forecast to become “climate exiles” in the face of escalating climate change.
LONDON (Reuters) - A technology to bury underground the greenhouse gas emissions produced from burning coal must be ready for global deployment by 2017-2019, U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said on Monday.
The newly installed members of the House of Representatives only start work today, but already they have “homework” in the form of a comprehensive green agenda being pushed by environmentalists.
New global estimate for cost of adaptation to climate change in developing
countries.
