The financing gap for infrastructure projects might have come under the spotlight recently, but experts at the Cities: Possibilities 2024 forum say the key barriers to building better cities are not money or the lack of technical solutions, but political cycles that reward short-termism.
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Southeast Asia is a particularly vulnerable region to climate threats. Digital solutions may be key to helping the region shore up resilience against economic losses and increasing climate-induced extreme weather events.
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.
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In the wake of the world’s first Article 6 transaction between Thailand and Switzerland South Pole’s regional policy director Karolien Casaer-Diez reflects on how the rise of carbon markets in Asia, combined with effective regulation, may hold the key to reducing the region’s carbon emissions.
Future projections of electric mobility are promising, but uptake in the region will depend heavily on the strategic decisions and actions of its key stakeholders—industry, government, and consumers.
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Zulfikar Yurnaidi dan
Justin Sitohang
Normal contributed to this pandemic. Governments should direct stimulus measures towards a greener and more equitable normal.
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Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana dan
Inger Andersen
With a vision to end the drudgery of manual rickshaw pulling, social enterprise SMV Green is also helping restore clean air in one of India's most polluted cities through electric rickshaws.
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About four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by 2050 will live in East or Southeast Asia, creating an urgent need climate-smart solutions for cities. This year’s Innovate4Climate summit will look at the climate-smart solutions the region needs.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the Earth’s average global surface temperature could rise more than 4 degrees Celsius or 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. These videos attempt to show how that looks like.
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[The EB Podcast] In this concluding episode of the Let’s Write the Future series, we explore how the rise of renewable energy, the electrification of transport and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are changing our lives, cities, and the world.