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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

...11 and 2012, respectively, lower Manhattan, including the city’s financial district, was inundated. City planners have since been working with the US government to plan for the next wave of superstorm...

12 Aug 2020

Deutsche Bank and Olam International close Asia’s first FX Forward using ESG performance targets

...10); increasing responsible consumption and production (SDG 12); contributing to climate action (SDG 13); protecting life below water (SGD 14); protecting life on land (SGD 15) and increasing partners...

26 Jun 2020

Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

...10. Production has also grown dramatically, from just 67 million tonnes (mt) in 2000, to 325 mt in 2010, and 616 mt in 2019, making Indonesia the world’s biggest thermal coal exporter and 12th-largest...

23 Mar 2021

Eugene Wang, founder of Singapore biotech firm Sophie's BioNutrients.

...19.8 billion, from a record high of US$20.8 billion in 2018. By comparison, more than US$4 trillion was spent on information technology in 2019. Wang's company, Sophie's BioNutrients, the Singapore-ba...

9 Jul 2020

...18, an event organised by Eco-Business and awards winners with up to S$1 million in funding from Temasek Foundation. Today, as the world reels from the Covid-19 pandemic, Ng said his company is not ye...

12 Jan 2021

...10 years – much more than between 2016 and 2020. But a report from Energy magazine points out it will still be slower than the 120-150 gigawatts annual increase the industry itself expects. In Septemb...

17 Dec 2020

...1 percenters of the US have been in the news a lot lately. Guess how much the top 1 per cent of earners in the world make? According to the Global Rich List, an annual salary of about 32,000 US dollar...

23 May 2019

...15,000 pineapples he had just harvested on his farm in Tanay, Rizal, about 60 kilometres from the capital. As of 1 June, the Move Food Initiative has delivered 160,190 kilogrammes of vegetables and f...

16 Jun 2020

...152tpbf/AACVzJmMAG27wHuvOsia-L1Xa?dl=0 For more information, images or interviews, please contact: Martine Parry Tel: 07886 301486 martine.parry@fairtrade.org.uk or kerry.thorpe@benjerry.com Notes t...

18 Nov 2020

...17 speech. After decades of debate on whether the country should be a nuclear-free zone, a Labour government in the mid-1980s banned ships that were nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed, causing a securit...

23 Oct 2020

Online campaign unites Filipinos to continue fighting energy poverty from the safety of their homes

Liter of Light, a Filipino-born global grassroots solar lighting movement, is launching the “LIGHT IT FORWARD” CHALLENGE on Wednesday, July 1, uniting artists, the media, businesses, and t...

30 Jun 2020

JinkoPower and EDF Renewables Consortium sign PPA for world's single largest solar project in Abu Dhabi

...1.2 GW Noor Abu Dhabi solar plant – amongst the largest operational solar PV plants in the world. The Noor Abu Dhabi project, which was awarded to Marubeni Corp and Jinko Consortium in 2017, com...

30 Jul 2020

Corteva Agriscience announces award to galvanise food resilience and promote agricultural sustainability

...150 applicants from 19 countries. It will provide a platform for an exchange of creative insights and a showcase of continuing entrepreneurial spirit in the APAC region, as it has for the past three y...

29 Jun 2020

...11 per cent in the US in 2019 while China, which accounts for half of total world coal consumption, is expected to use about 1 per cent less of the fuel this year, mainly due to a slowdown in its econ...

6 Dec 2019

Man carrying bundle of rice in Quezon, Philippines

...14 of 18 countries analysed by consultancy Vivid Economics, stimulus spending that could hurt the environment outweighed spending that could help. According to Energy Policy Tracker, a consortium of 1...

21 Sep 2020

...100 (reforestation) but only 1 billion metric tons (1.1 billion tons) if tree farming with plantations is used instead (afforestation). The optimistic scenario would cover less than 10 years of growt...

11 Nov 2019

Floods in Bandung in West Java, Indonesia.

...1.6 million acres), occupying 14 per cent of the Barito’s watershed of 4.5 million hectares (11.1 million acres), according to LAPAN’s remote-sensing division head, Rokhis Khomarudin. He said the anal...

21 Jan 2021

A sea of plastic bottles. Image: Tom Page, CC BY-SA 2.0

...1 July 2021." Hailin Pek, executive director of civic society group Zero Waste SG, which works with both the government and business on waste reduction initiatives, commented: "With the situation at h...

21 May 2020

New buildings under construction in China

...1 grew by nearly 7 per cent year-on-year and by 10 per cent relative to the year to March 2019 – respectively, the fastest rates since 2012 and 2013. Charting the sources of emissions growth The reaso...

21 May 2021

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