Eco-Business

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

...1 billion to countries in DPF[1]. This figure is likely to rise in future as this type of financing becomes increasingly popular for crisis response. DPF differs from project finance as it is non-earm...

14 Dis 2021

...17.9 per cent in 2017 to 19.7 per cent in 2022. The volume of electricity traded on the intra-provincial market last year totalled 4,218 TWh, compared with 1,036 TWh on the inter-provincial market, bo...

4 Sep 2023

...1 per cent from 11 per cent. More charging infrastructure and greater availability and choice of EVs would also help increase the appetite for these vehicles in the region, as would governments settin...

24 Feb 2023

...1 million in project funding from Temasek Foundation, the philathropic arm of state investor Temasek, which is presenting the event with Eco-Business. Contenders also stand to gain a minimum of S$100,...

4 Mei 2022

Arsjad Rasjid, president director, Indika Energy

...100 killers of the world'. My name was there, as head of a coal company. Arsjad Rasjid, chairman, Asean Business Advisory Council and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce; president director, Indika Energy ...

20 Feb 2023

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the growing use of virtual platforms has opened greater opportunities for new modes of engagement with key stakeholders at a company’s annual general meeting (AGM) and...

20 Jun 2023

...1 was due to high natural gas prices and a rise in power demand, and it helped drive an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. 1 terawatt-hour (TWh) = 1 billion kilowatt-hours. Data for 2021 is a 12-mo...

17 Jan 2022

...16 feet) compared to the average annual shrinkage of 1 metre per year since he started collecting data. Behind the accelerated melting are the record heatwaves much of the world has experienced over t...

8 Nov 2022

DBS announced interim targets for its 2050 climate action plan

...10 billion, while the bank's coal portfolio amounted to US$1.5 billion, or about 0.3 per cent of its lending book. The energy transition presented banks with a trillion-dollar investment opportunity, ...

14 Sep 2022

EDC's first geothermal brine recovery plant now operational in the Philippines

...1,180 MW of geothermal capacity in its portfolio. EDC has made the Philippines the third largest geothermal energy producer in the world and an acknowledged leader in wet steam field technology for ov...

27 Mei 2022

...13 per cent increase. Nuclear power was at 35.9 billion yuan, up by 56.1 per cent. Wind power was 76.1 billion yuan, a 34.3 per cent increase. And solar power was 134.9 billion yuan, up 113.6 per cent...

22 Ogo 2023

...1 per cent of farmers leaving the sector at that time - but emphasised that support from other institutions like banks was also essential. As countries prepare to discuss harmful subsidies at COP15, R...

1 Dis 2022

...16 megawatt Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project, which is one of Nepal's largest foreign direct investments to date, will harness power from the Trishuli River to generate 1,533 gigawatt hour of energ...

21 Nov 2023

...19 report concluding the threat of extinction looms over 1 million living species, as soon as the middle of the 21st century for some. The harvest of wild species beyond sustainable levels is second o...

11 Ogo 2022

...150 (US$112) per square metre, increase project costs by 70 per cent and push back the time it takes for the project to break-even financially by two to three years – resulting in “severe financial im...

22 Mar 2023

...19, the industry is on track to fully recover by 2024, and post 70 per cent growth from 2019 by 2040, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). High industry presence, low trans...

6 Okt 2022

glenn mandziuk Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

...1 per cent of global emissions before the Covid-19 pandemic. Research has shown that the industry needs to reduce emissions by 66 per cent by 2030, and 90 per cent by 2050, to help limit global warmin...

21 Jan 2022

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

...1.1°C above the pre-industrial warming. The world needs to keep to the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal. The issue is that for many people in most of the developing world, 1.1°C is already a matter of life ...

16 Ogo 2023

When toy giant Lego decided to open a new $1-billion factory, it picked Vietnam so as to be close to its major markets in Asia. The facility, whose construction was launched last month, will also be ...

19 Dis 2022

...1,050) a tonne in January last year to a record high of over 12,000 yuan (US$1,723) in July this year. The average price in the first seven months of this year also exceeded 11,000 yuan. Biodiesel sto...

15 Sep 2022

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