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7 September 2025
International Built Environment Week (IBEW)
Pioneering Asia’s built environment future with technology, talent and sustainability at IBEW and BEX Asia 2025
20 June 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Safer streets, stronger futures: Making road safety everyone’s business
5 June 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Amid scorching temperatures, India turns to ideas both old and new to beat the heat
27 April 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
'Engines of opportunity, centres of vulnerability': The growing challenges of Asia Pacific's cities
19 April 2025
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Urgent removal of at least 2.5 million tonnes of debris needed in Myanmar following earthquake: UNDP
25 March 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Historic canals take centre stage as Kochi, India aims to blunt fallout from climate change
10 March 2025
10 February 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
New United Nations, UK project to support shift to electric mobility in Thailand
20 January 2025
1 November 2024
28 October 2024
27 October 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum calls for enhanced role of cities in national climate action, localising the SDGs
18 October 2024
United Nations Environment Programme
To counter climate change, Colombian cities weave nature back into their urban fabric
14 October 2024
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
US$8 trillion opportunity in sustainable cooling solutions for developing economies
26 June 2024
Volvo Construction Equipment Asia
Indonesia’s new capital city Nusantara can pioneer sustainable and clean urban construction in Southeast Asia
4 May 2024
17 April 2024
27 March 2024
Volvo Construction Equipment Asia
Why electric construction machines should play a key role in bringing Singapore’s Green Plan to life
1 March 2024
19 November 2023
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
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