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Sustainability startups Cricket One and GAFT win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2024
Two winning solutions emerge as top winners at The Liveability Challenge 2024, addressing key challenges in climate change and food & nutrition.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
World squanders over 1 billion meals a day: UN report
Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were …
United Nations Development Programme
Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards: UNDP
Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarisation on a global scale. …
Institute of Sustainability and Technology
Hong Kong hosts One Earth Summit to set Asia on mission for climate change impact
Institute of Sustainability and Technology, World Economic Forum’s GAEA initiative, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and …
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12 March 2024
21 February 2024
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change impacts severely impede SDGs: ADB-UN report
8 February 2024
United Nations Development Programme
New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis
5 February 2024
Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank commits record climate finance of almost US$10 billion in 2023
28 January 2024
15 January 2024
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
DENR, UNDP highlight potential of circular economy to accelerate climate targets
8 January 2024
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
US$200 million ADB loan to help prepare climate-resilient Philippine infrastructure projects
2 January 2024
UN Environment Programme
Global annual finance flows of US$7 trillion fueling climate, biodiversity, land degradation crises
5 December 2023
4 December 2023
19 November 2023
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
8 November 2023
28 October 2023
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Asian and Pacific countries at UN forum agree on measures to shape energy transition, address climate crisis
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