Eco-Business

Today, more than 21 per cent of Singapore's citizens are aged 65 or older, making it a “super-aged” society.

Studio EB Rapid ageing and digital isolation are pushing businesses beyond traditional corporate giving.

In tropical cities, urban heat islands (UHIs) exacerbate an already challenging hot-humid heat burden for residents. UHIs are formed by urban artificial surfaces like concrete and asphalt that retain heat by day and slowly release it at night, never giving cities a chance to cool.

Studio EB As extreme heat intensifies across Asia, it is becoming a growing public health concern, straining health systems and undermining livelihoods.

Singapore-based Native AI companies raised US$9.3 billion across 227 funding rounds as of July 2026

City-state accounts for nearly all regional Native AI funding, while larger late-stage deals drive capital raised in 2026 above last year’s total.

Oleh Taejun Kang

Oleh Siva Selan

Oleh Taejun Kang

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Mineral security is not just about access to resources but about control over value chains. India’s response must be strategic, not reactive. Oleh Animesh Ghosh dan Soumit Pandey

Climate change is increasingly driving displacement, raising urgent questions about development models that foster unequal growth while exacerbating ecological risk. Oleh Soumyajit Bhar

Malaysia faces political, economic and constitutional barriers to curb carbon emission. As the climate bill nears Parliament, can policy finally match the country's carbon reality? Oleh Pearly Wong

Focusing only on emergency planning, disaster response, and recovery after each climate catastrophe is no longer enough in Europe. Policymakers urgently need to start mapping Europe’s long-term future, which will require a fundamental overhaul of its infrastructure, energy system, and major economic sectors. Oleh Giulio Boccaletti

Oleh Lidy Nacpil

Oleh John Leo Algo

Oleh Edward Vrkić

Oleh Gerald Mako

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Studio EB Singapore's rapidly expanding digital economy is driving a surge in data centre energy consumption, creating new challenges for the country's low-carbon ambitions. This Eco-Business video explores how green software and efficient digital infrastructure can support sustainable digital growth.

Watch our panelists discuss the current landscape and challenges of Scope 3 disclosures, and the enabling role of technology and organisational buy-in to close the reporting gap.

NGOs urged the government to improve forest data transparency by making maps of protected areas publicly available, and to channel funds to frontline communities living near forests.

Studio EB As Malaysia forges ahead with its 2050 net zero climate ambition, businesses must reshape their supply chains for a low carbon future. This Eco-Business video looks at how SMEs can adapt to new sustainability reporting requirements.

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Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.

Studio EB Critical to the country’s energy security in the 1970s, geothermal is now re-emerging as the Philippines’ biggest clean energy advantage at a time when countries are seeking reliable, round-the-clock renewable power, says Francis Giles B. Puno, president and chief operating officer of First Gen Corporation.

Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the Eco-Business Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, reducing plastic use or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient to address the climate crisis – they are counterproductive.

Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.

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