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abillionveg secures largest seed funding round for a social impact start-up in Singapore in 2019

...1 billion dollars to support animal welfare and education causes. The company plans to donate $1 million in 2020. “Our focus is on building a community to help us achieve the $1 million milesto...

26 Aug 2019

How Biden's climate agenda aims to trigger a 'good-paying' jobs boom

...11,000 US jobs in 2021, they maintain. However, researchers and environmental advocates argue that clean energy offers far higher levels of employment compared to fossil fuels. A 2019 study by Univers...

1 Feb 2021

...1 per cent by 2050. Since 1980, the United States has suffered 241 weather and climate disasters costing $1 billion or more, at a cumulative cost of $1.6 trillion, the United Nations has said. Only se...

21 Nov 2019

DBS Bank's headquarters in Singapore. Image: DBS

...101 financial institutions from 38 countries that have signed up to the EPs. Tan Su Shan, DBS' group head of institutional banking group, said the bank believed that the region would "see significant ...

19 Nov 2019

...18 and 2019. Over the entire Arctic, sea ice reached its second-lowest extent ever on September 15. Amounts vary from year to year, but the trend is inexorably downward: the 14 Septembers with the lea...

20 Oct 2020

SP Group opens Singapore's first smart energy town showcase at MyTengah Experience Centre

...100 per cent reliability for 13 consecutive years, since it commenced operations in 2006. 2 Household Energy Consumption Study 2017, National Environment Agency 3 Appointments made on the myTengah a...

20 Oct 2020

...17, the Trump administration pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-country free-trade deal that was never ratified. But the remaining countries, who have since forged ahead wi...

5 Apr 2021

...19 recovery announcements. It shows G20 countries have promised policy support worth $161 billion for fossil fuel-heavy industries such as airlines, oil, coal and roadbuilding so far - 51 per cent of ...

23 Jul 2020

First Taiwan International Water Week serves as the platform for exhibition and forum

...1 September 26-28, 2019. Major companies such as Aqua Care, Easywell, EMEC Taiwan, GEMUE Taiwan, ITRI, Lan Shan, Li Jing Viscarb, and Ye Sail will showcase their products among 150 exhibitors. For th...

10 Sep 2019

Green peafowl at the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary Cambodia

...14 (4 per cent loss that year), 2019 showed double the amount of loss (1.4 per cent) compared to 2018 (0.72 per cent). In 2020, this rise shows no sign of slowing, with the UMD data recording more tha...

2 Sep 2020

...11 per cent of coral reefs along the vulnerable coastlines are protected, they found. A 100-metre screen of shoreline mangrove forest can reduce wave heights by as much as two-thirds. By 2100, coastal...

18 Jun 2020

...1 January 2019, aims to cut the production and consumption of HFCs by 2047, and has the potential to avoid as much as 0.4°C of global warming by 2100. “ The global pandemic has emphasised just how im...

20 Jul 2020

Over 12 million pieces of single-use plastic packaging and items saved with industry initiative

...12 million pieces of single-use plastic packaging and items saved as part of commitment to reduce their plastic use. Over 1 million pieces of plastic utensils are saved per week as part of a food del...

19 Aug 2020

...16 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2019, including $700 billion invested in companies that were part of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), an association of retailers and manufacturers ...

17 Sep 2020

...11 million residents who use over five million cubic metres of water every day, the city is taking steps to strengthen its water security by reducing leakages from its water distribution network. Each...

13 Oct 2020

...11 GW by 2025. This would stall power development at a time when Vietnam desperately needs more of it. By 2030, experts estimate 130 GW of electricity will be required to sustain the nation's rapid ec...

4 Dec 2020

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

...1.5 degrees Celsius? Here are some policies needed this year to steer the country towards a climate-friendly path. 1. Phase out of committed coal-fired plants The Philippines needs to scrap coal proje...

19 Jan 2021

...114 per cent of their collective GDP), from less than $1 trillion in 2005. Sovereign-debt restructuring is therefore inevitable, presaging a period of pain on all sides. This implies an urgent need to...

13 Aug 2020

...14. The number of vehicles on Pakistan's roads jumped from about 2 million in 1991 to more than 10 million two decades later, the report noted. Policy pushback As it tries to spark an electric mobili...

12 Mar 2020

A L'Oreal display in a pharmacy in Singapore.

...19, said it would invest €150 million (US$177 million) in addressing social and environmental challenges through impact investing and financing projects linked to the circular economy, nature restorat...

12 Aug 2020

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