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Official development assistance must recognise countries' vulnerabilities

...when allocating development finance. The UN, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and other organisations already produce vulnerability indices, while others are under preparation, as at the World Bank. Thes...

7 Feb 2024

Official development assistance must recognise countries' vulnerabilities

News / Cities

Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

...their homes) are going to be damaged. Floods will come, and cities need to do everything they can to prepare for them. Matthew Phillips, senior water engineer, Arup From the ongoing drought in Somali...

21 Apr 2023

Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

News / Policy & Finance

Will COP28 deliver a new fund for climate loss and damage?

...ther the fund should be hosted by the World Bank. Developed countries, led by the United States, are pushing for the fund to be based at the bank, while developing nations argue this would tip the bal...

31 Oct 2023

Will COP28 deliver a new fund for climate loss and damage?

News / Waste

To solve Asia’s single-use sachet waste problem, promote reuse: Jakarta-based start-up founder Bintang Ekananda

...the packaging. It also means there is reduced energy use from the production of the packaging, and this solves not just the waste problem, but also the emissions problem as well. “ When I went to th...

17 May 2023

To solve Asia’s single-use sachet waste problem, promote reuse: Jakarta-based start-up founder Bintang Ekananda

News / Carbon & Climate

Eco-Business’ 10 most read stories of 2023

...they enter and navigate the sustainability sector. Unsurprisingly, the chief sustainability officers of Singapore’s largest coffers raked in the most dough – their salaries are up to sevenfold of thei...

20 Dec 2023

Eco-Business’ 10 most read stories of 2023

Singapore's Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will require all importers and manufacturers of beverage containers in Singapore to collect most of the products they sell to consumers. Industry players led by Coca-Cola have opposed the scheme, citing cost and other concerns.

News / Waste

Singapore's polluter-pays scheme faces further delay amid concern over industry stalling tactics

...they place an onus on them to recover and recycle the packaging they put to market and pay for the costs of operating these schemes," he said. "Delays like this run the risk of giving an opportunity ...

29 Apr 2024

Singapore's polluter-pays scheme faces further delay amid concern over industry stalling tactics

Press Releases / RSK

New Hong Kong desalination plant begins delivering fresh water to 137,000 homes

...The Binnies team was able to draw on expertise from colleagues across the business in the UK and Singapore to support the delivery of the works. “Over the past 10 years, our project team from 1...

5 Feb 2024

New Hong Kong desalination plant begins delivering fresh water to 137,000 homes

News / Carbon & Climate

CDP restructure sees power shift away from Asia as regional roles axed

...ther factor in the restructure is the introduction of a new technology platform to improve the disclosure process, which has led to the departure of a number of chief technology officers, according to...

5 Feb 2024

CDP restructure sees power shift away from Asia as regional roles axed

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘The red line is shifting’: Environmental journalists in Asia feel the squeeze on freedom to speak truth to power

...their workers. On the other hand, the arrest and eventual conviction of a construction tycoon for killing and eating a rare black panther in a national park may not have happened if there had not been...

25 Jul 2023

‘The red line is shifting’: Environmental journalists in Asia feel the squeeze on freedom to speak truth to power

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The energy transition is fuelling a power transition

...their potential and, in doing so, support the shared fight against climate change and its effects. When extreme weather events rob family breadwinners of their livelihoods and their homes, they can n...

6 Jul 2023

The energy transition is fuelling a power transition

Activists calling for climate finance COP27

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate change talk is cheap without projects to finance

...the project will promptly service its long-term debt. Thus, when the projected revenues, costs, and perceived risks meet the criteria of investors, finance flows and the project is built. The whole pr...

5 Jul 2023

Climate change talk is cheap without projects to finance

News / Water

Has the Indian government managed to clean the Ganga at last?

...the plant,” the chief engineer admitted to The Third Pole, adding that “the treatment plants cannot take the load when the sewage pipes carry sewage water along with rainwater”. But for the rest of th...

2 Oct 2023

Has the Indian government managed to clean the Ganga at last?

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024?

...the “two sessions”. Why is the “two sessions” important? The “two sessions” is the annual gathering of two bodies: China’s top legislative body, known as the National People’s Congress (NPC), and the ...

14 Mar 2024

Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024?

News / Cities

Java's eroding shoreline and surging tides overwhelm jasmine flower industry

...The aromatic flower is believed sacred to Vishnu, a god in the Hindu religion. “The quality is second to none,” Sobirin said in the Javanese language, when asked to describe the flowers grown in this ...

1 Feb 2024

Java's eroding shoreline and surging tides overwhelm jasmine flower industry

Opinion / Waste

Why a legally binding global plastics treaty is a necessary pathway to combat the climate crisis

...These interconnected issues pose a significant challenge to the health of our planet and the well-being of all living things. A prime example of this worrying synergy is plastic pollution. The sheer v...

24 Apr 2024

Why a legally binding global plastics treaty is a necessary pathway to combat the climate crisis

News / Policy & Finance

As Asean environmental rights draft takes shape, advocates fear weakened safeguards

...they are concerned that a draft statement, currently being formulated at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), lacks teeth. The bloc is targeting for the text, which is not expected to c...

28 Mar 2024

As Asean environmental rights draft takes shape, advocates fear weakened safeguards

News / Food & Agriculture

Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’

...the researchers from the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters, Louisiana State University, USA, University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI), and the University of Canterbury. Th...

31 Jan 2024

Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’

News / Food & Agriculture

Solar pumps increase productivity, profits of West Bengal farmers

...the farmers’ interest, as it would allow them to irrigate their land even at night, at the crack of dawn, or on cloudy days, when the solar pump fails to deliver well. Such a solar-electricity hybrid ...

14 Jul 2023

Solar pumps increase productivity, profits of West Bengal farmers

News / Water

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

...the waters of the Mekong River by her village in northern Thailand, gathering river weed to sell and cook at home. Kam Thon and other women who live by the Mekong have been collecting river weed, or k...

21 Mar 2023

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’

...the imbalance can be seen by the difference between the sum of the sinks and the sum of the sources (dashed black line). Data from the Global Carbon Project. Chart by Carbon Brief. Over the past decad...

20 Nov 2025

Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’

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