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The sharing economy for energy is coming to Singapore

...Power Ledger’s pilot in Bangkok operates a similar concept among buildings located within the same neighbourhood. In contrast, Synergy is meant to be scaled across an entire city rather than a microgr...

28 Nov 2018

The sharing economy for energy is coming to Singapore

News / Carbon & Climate

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

...power in June, said the low-carbon transition Spain is now aiming for must be "socially just", and not leave anyone behind, including coal miners set to lose their jobs in the shift from fossil fuels....

21 Jan 2019

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

News / Policy & Finance

UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

...powers cutting aid budgets, including the United States - the FAO's largest funder. Experts have called for the new FAO head to show strong leadership in tackling rising hunger and climate change thre...

24 Jun 2019

UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

News / Carbon & Climate

‘What happens in the Arctic, doesn’t stay in the Arctic’—why the north pole matters to Asia

...power grid to homes and businesses, and its chief commercial officer Andrew Koscharsky said 15 to 20 per cent of about 100,000 residential customers have signed up for carbon-neutral electricity. Whil...

9 Oct 2019

‘What happens in the Arctic, doesn’t stay in the Arctic’—why the north pole matters to Asia

News / Energy

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

...power project (in Pakistan administered Kashmir), and the addition of a fourth unit to the Tarbela hydropower plant, contributing an additional 1,410 MW of power. Several other hydropower projects are...

28 Aug 2018

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

News / Energy

Villagers lose homes, land to feed India's booming power sector

...power companies since the 1960s, says Climate Agenda, a local nonprofit. The government and the power companies often renege on the terms of their land acquisitions, said Priya Pillai, a senior resear...

30 Oct 2018

Villagers lose homes, land to feed India's booming power sector

News / Energy

How to rethink Southeast Asia's energy systems to meet climate goals?

...Powering Southeast Asia's growth story is the single biggest contributor to man-made greenhouse gas emissions—coal. Nowhere else in the world has coal increased its share of the energy mix over the la...

27 Jun 2019

How to rethink Southeast Asia's energy systems to meet climate goals?

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia will be hardest hit by melting ice; governments urged to speed up change

...powerful and influential governments of the world are not just the saying this is a huge problem and acknowledging it, (but) they’re also saying: these are the transformative changes that we are going...

22 Jul 2019

Southeast Asia will be hardest hit by melting ice; governments urged to speed up change

Press Releases / Green Initiatives

One Museum Place partners with Green Initiatives to launch ‘Better Water’ Campaign to reduce plastic waste

...power of collective action and share powerful data on the impact achieved by companies. It will also challenge the widely-held assumption that bottled water is safer and cheaper. In fact, bottled wate...

22 Apr 2019

One Museum Place partners with Green Initiatives to launch ‘Better Water’ Campaign to reduce plastic waste

News / Carbon & Climate

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

...power”: “In the 25 years that I have been at every COP, I have never seen the gap bigger between the inside and the outside.” When Greta Thunberg arrived in those halls of power, fresh from a transatl...

16 Dec 2019

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

News / Energy

Indonesian court rejects bid to stop coal power plant expansion

...power plant on the holiday island of Bali, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday. Three residents near the Celukan Bawang power plant, about 120 km (75 miles) from the main tourism hub of ...

20 Aug 2018

Indonesian court rejects bid to stop coal power plant expansion

News / Carbon & Climate

Societies must take care of those 'menaced' by green shift—officials

...power in June, is also aware that not everyone will win if it steps up action to decarbonise its economy, as it is promising. Last month, in a push to close most of Spain's coal mines by the end of th...

16 Nov 2018

Societies must take care of those 'menaced' by green shift—officials

News / Energy

Biogas guzzlers: Karachi's public buses to run on cow poo

...powered by a decidedly "unclean" fuel: cow poo. With funding from the international Green Climate Fund, Karachi will launch a zero-emission Green Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network, with 200 buses fuelle...

3 Jan 2019

Biogas guzzlers: Karachi's public buses to run on cow poo

News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Dr Lee Hui Mien, responsible tourism steward

...power, recycling and sustainable forestry, among other achievements.] What is your unsustainable guilty pleasure? Travelling—I enjoy visiting other countries for leisure but, at the same time, I am aw...

23 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Dr Lee Hui Mien, responsible tourism steward

News / Energy

Energy from greenhouse gases is possible

...power: enough to fire up a light-emitting diode, or power a silicon chip. “We have come up with a new way to power the electronics systems of the future – by harvesting wi-fi energy in a way that’s ea...

10 Feb 2019

Energy from greenhouse gases is possible

News / Waste

Food and beverage industry: No plans to totally discard plastic

...power, more consumption and more waste generated. You need to plan your infrastructure to meet these increases. We’re not quite sure if banning alone is going to help, which is why we also have to ste...

11 Feb 2020

Food and beverage industry: No plans to totally discard plastic

News / Corporate Responsibility

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

...power project, saying that allowing it to proceed would devastate the most critical areas of the Batang Toru ecosystem in northern Sumatra and drive the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) to ext...

13 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

News / Carbon & Climate

Changing culture in a changing climate

...power and shut them down until governments act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency”. Around seven million people took to the streets for the Global Climate Strike. Such numbers reflect a fast-grow...

7 Oct 2019

Changing culture in a changing climate

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

News / Energy

NGOs urge DBS: Pull out of 'risky' Indonesian coal power deal

A coalition of non-government organisations (NGOs) has called on Southeast Asia's largest financial services group, DBS Bank, to back out of a 2,000-megawatt coal-fired power project in Indonesia that...

26 Feb 2019

NGOs urge DBS: Pull out of 'risky' Indonesian coal power deal

News / Food & Agriculture

Could this tool nudge Southeast Asian shoppers to switch to green palm oil?

...power of informed decision-making,” she said. An ad for EcoCart Data collected from EcoCart will be used to inform consumer goods companies of the number of switches consumers have made to products ...

30 Apr 2019

Could this tool nudge Southeast Asian shoppers to switch to green palm oil?

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