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Ho Xiang Tian delivering a speech at a climate rally in Singapore in September 2023.

The Sustainability Leadership A-List Youth winner tells Eco-Business about the Singapore he wants to see: a carbon-neutral decarbonisation pioneer that has stopped financing fossil fuels in Southeast Asia.

Companies should approach climate solutions as a “portfolio management exercise”, and look for short-term wins by tweaking their operations, said industry leaders.

Supporters of Students for a Fossil Free Future gather at a rally to call for accelerated climate action in Singapore

The city-state's top universities have largely ignored calls to divest from fossil fuels. In some cases, their campuses have become more entrenched with Big Oil since a student divestment campaign began in 2017, a new study finds.

Christoph Nedopil Wang_China_Griffith Asia Institute

Nedopil has left Shanghai for Brisbane to take on a new role as director of the research institute. He remains acting director of the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University’s school of finance while it looks for a successor.

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In Asian universities, students often have little say about what happens on campus. As student divestment groups in the region gain momentum, it’s time for universities to listen to what their students have to say about issues that will affect their future. By Sonia Sambhi

Singapore is the first country in the world to approve cell-based meat, but that’s just one of the five reasons why the city-state is well-positioned to provide an enabling environment for food tech innovators to thrive. By Trang Chu Minh

Owing to years of grassroots mobilisation and the rise of renewables and low-carbon assets, financial markets are finally shifting gears to account for the inevitable decline of fossil fuels. But policymakers must heed the call for clear standards. By Nancy Birdsall and Brian Webster

The Covid-19 pandemic has fallen hardest not just on cities but on poorer, overcrowded neighborhoods. Could the pandemic lead to a more advanced and inclusive form of urbanism? By Robert Muggah and Ian Goldin

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Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University is building the region’s first model electricity grid that can tap and distribute power from multiple energy sources, including fossil fuels and renewable energy.

A student coalition in Santa Clara University in California is urging the school board to discontinue its investments in fossil fuel companies through a catchy music video called "Divest It Like It's Hot".

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