#urban planning Berita
Studio EB
Extreme heat is making air conditioning a necessity. For commercial offices and large-scale city campuses, the use of artificial intelligence and demand response-ready cooling systems could promise efficiency gains.
Bandar-bandar
When it gets too hot: How the City of Melbourne ensures vulnerable residents have refuge from extreme heat
The rising cost of energy has made energy poverty a challenge – there are people who cannot afford to turn on air conditioners and need "cool places" to go to, says the city’s co-chief heat officer Krista Milne.
Polisi & Kewangan
Philippines’ Chocolate Hills probe and the Pandora’s box it opened: What do we do with buildings on protected areas?
A resort built on the national monument site came under scrutiny by the Senate. Eco-Business speaks to an expert familiar with land use issues on how the construction of such structures are approved and managed.
Bandar-bandar
A few hours of spiking air pollution ‘raises death risk’
A study examining short-term exposure to 'spikes' in air pollution reveals that these incidents contribute to 1 million deaths annually, highlighting research that urges a policy response, especially as poorer countries bear the heaviest burden.
Karbon & Cuaca
Why are Europe's Low Emission Zones fuelling unrest?
Polisi & Kewangan
Analysis: How green are Pakistan’s political manifestoes?
#urban planning Pendapat
Bandar-bandar
The invisible killer lurking in the air of our cities
As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely populated cities.
A Malawian campaigner and scientist at the UN INC4 negotiations in Ottawa sets out four tests for the global plastic treaty.
Despite being on other sides of the planet, Jakarta and Iowa are staring down similar issues around water hygiene and supply.
Sisa Kumbahan
Reducing plastic pollution requires local remedies
The new global treaty to end plastic pollution should consider support for on-the-ground initiatives that remove and recycle waste. A disconnect between international plans and local realities can thwart progress and breed cynicism.
Pengangkutan
Vehicle emissions are polluting Malaysia's cities
Bandar-bandar
Rising sea levels could swamp sinking Shanghai
#urban planning Video
Karbon & Cuaca
Lending forests a voice with primatologist Andie Ang
Amid competing concerns such as urban development and tackling climate change, keeping biodiversity conservation in people's minds can be a challenge. Eco-Business asks primatologist Andie Ang how that can be tackled.
Sisa Kumbahan
How can Singapore kick its plastic bag habit?
Studio EB
Singapore gets through 2 million plastic bags a day. Why do Singaporeans use so many bags, and what will it take to reduce consumption?
In gridlocked, smoggy Southeast Asian cities, change is afoot to electrify transport and clear some of the world's most polluted skies. This video documents the pockets of hope for e-mobility around the most climate-vulnerable region.
The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
#urban planning Audio
Bangunan Hijau
‘Sustainability must be accessible’: Arthaland’s CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm
Studio EB
If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.
Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.
Karbon & Cuaca
Relentless work, for no money: Southeast Asian climate scientists share their IPCC experience
What's it like co-writing a 3,500 page report on the dangers of climate change with hundreds of scientists worldwide, over Zoom calls during a pandemic? Eco-Business speaks to authors from the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore who were in the thick of the action.
Bandar-bandar
Rethinking cooling in a warming world
Studio EB
[The EB Podcast] In the fourth episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore the potential for low-carbon cooling as Southeast Asia gets richer and hotter.
#urban planning Siaran Akhbar
Volvo Construction Equipment Asia
Why electric construction machines should play a key role in bringing Singapore’s Green Plan to life
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum underscores need for collaborative action to ensure crisis resilient urban futures
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Regional UN forum to spotlight future of Asian and Pacific cities
#urban planning Penyelidikan
Eco-Business
Freezing in the tropics - Asean's air-con conundrum
Eco-Business
Flood Controls in Southeast Asia
Eco-Business
Sustainable Cities: From Possibility to Reality
