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3 March 2021

Seven Clean Seas

Waste

Seven Clean Seas staffs up as plastic offsetting firm adds auditing capability

26 February 2021

Kim Stengert

Waste

WWF Singapore communications head Kim Stengert joins Alliance to End Plastic Waste

22 February 2021

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

Cities

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

16 February 2021

media covering coal philippines

Energy

The more coal dominates the energy mix, the more positively Southeast Asia's media will cover it—except in the Philippines

15 February 2021

Solar panels metro station Delhi India

Energy

IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’

11 February 2021

Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five premature deaths globally - study

Carbon & Climate

Study: Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five premature deaths globally

5 February 2021

The Banten Suralaya coal complex in Banten, Java. The station will use ultra-supercritical technology, and is mainly funded by state utility PLN with financial advice from DBS Bank. Image: Greenpeace

Policy & Finance

An Indonesian village held hostage by coal pleads for change

4 February 2021

A billboard promoting Gush paint in Singapore.

Lifestyle

Do these air pollution-busting devices actually work?

1 February 2021

Robert Downey Jr at the launch of Footprint Coalition at Davos

Policy & Finance

Robert Downey Jr's new green tech fund invests in The Liveability Challenge winner RWDC Industries

Bill Gates

Carbon & Climate

As companies chase net-zero, backers say carbon offsets are 'part of the answer'

29 January 2021

A Plastic Bank collection centre in the Philippines

Waste

Plastic Bank hires first Asia sales chief as social enterprise eyes ninefold growth in 2021

28 January 2021

Plastic bags in Singapore

Waste

Singapore retailers that charged for plastic bags saw 60% reduction in use

laundry hanging

Manufacturing

Tiny clothes fibres are washing into the oceans. What can garment makers do about the problem?

27 January 2021

The River Plastic Recovery System from Seven Clean Seas

Waste

Singapore contraption aims to clean up Asia's plastic-polluted rivers

Klean's reverse vending machines are scaling up their plastic waste movement across Southeast Asia

Waste

Malaysian reverse vending machine startup eyes scale to tackle plastic crisis

14 January 2021

Facing their Failure to meet 2020 Biodiversity Targets, World Leaders Pledge Action & Funds

Carbon & Climate

Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action and funds

13 January 2021

A Pacific International Lines vessel.

Transport

Singapore shipping company guilty of illegally dumping waste oil in US waters

12 January 2021

Ng Pei Kang

Waste

In the Covid era, circularity can be a new frontier as well as a desert: TRIA chief Ng Pei Kang

11 January 2021

A Muuse reusable cup in use in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic. A rent and return trial has been running in the business cluster, Taikoo Place. Image: Muuse

Waste

How has container reuse scheme Muuse survived Covid?

8 January 2021

Dangers of Microplastics

Waste

‘Great concern’ as new study finds microplastics in human placentas

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