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News / Carbon & Climate

Sustainability and climate trends Asia businesses should watch in 2025

...the field should look like publicly attacked the group's new rules, saying that they were not confident the projects covered by these methodologies will be done in the right way. 2. The mainstreaming...

8 Jan 2025

Sustainability and climate trends Asia businesses should watch in 2025

News / Energy

‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report

...the newsletter. ‘Crossing the river by touching the stones’ Despite the progress to date in diversifying China’s electricity supply – and the business models of the country’s power sector SOEs – ma...

12 Aug 2024

‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Catalytic capital holds the key to Southeast Asia's green transition

...the devastating impact of climate change on Southeast Asian economies. The Asian Development Bank projects that global warming could erode the region’s GDP by 11 per cent by the end of the century, wh...

26 Feb 2024

Catalytic capital holds the key to Southeast Asia's green transition

News / Cities

Orangutan sightings rise amid habitat loss due to Sumatra dam construction

...the forests to see them, and we could only see their nests. [Now] they come to the settlement. How could they [stay in the forest] when there’s heavy equipment there?” Julius agreed that the frequent ...

2 Mar 2023

Orangutan sightings rise amid habitat loss due to Sumatra dam construction

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Developing countries need debt relief to act on climate change

...their tax and export revenues to service their debt, avoiding default at the cost of priorities like infrastructure investment, social-welfare programs, and climate action. The outlook for these count...

29 Jan 2024

Developing countries need debt relief to act on climate change

News / Energy

Fossil link, power generation aspirations complicate financing for Singapore’s hydrogen strategy: report

...the inherent inefficiencies and risks of leakage in handling the lightest gas in the world. The “optimum use case” today for low-carbon hydrogen is in replacing dirtier forms of the gas where they are...

18 Aug 2023

Fossil link, power generation aspirations complicate financing for Singapore’s hydrogen strategy: report

News / Carbon & Climate

Rich countries met US$100 billion climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’

...the target in 2022 – two years late. It did not release the data underpinning this estimate at the time. The OECD has now published a report confirming that the US$100 billion goal was met. In fact, t...

5 Jun 2024

Rich countries met US$100 billion climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’

News / Food & Agriculture

Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss

...the certainty of the results they provide.” The authors acknowledge other limitations in the study, such as not considering the emissions from refrigerators in their calculations. Previous research i...

27 Jun 2024

Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss

News / Cities

As India's population booms, where are its working women?

...They do not want to work in agriculture nor do they want to work as domestic workers. They want some other types of jobs which are going to respect them, give them the dignity and recognise them for t...

24 Mar 2023

As India's population booms, where are its working women?

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

...The money has gone to the bank, and it gets deducted there for loan repayment. I don't want to be a loan defaulter or I lose my land," he said. When it comes to the troubles he is experiencing, the bl...

15 May 2023

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

News / Policy & Finance

Is it time for China to embrace catastrophe insurance?

...ther: catastrophe-specific models require data on the weather, disaster-reduction measures, the economy and industries. There are data-security issues with bringing those together, so sustained techno...

18 Sep 2024

Is it time for China to embrace catastrophe insurance?

News / Cities

Students for sustainability… Earth School Singapore founder Cassandra Yip-Lee

...They met while scuba diving, were knowledgeable about marine life, and childhood trips to the beach had given Yip-Lee the opportunity to be close to the sun and the sea. Yip-Lee says that she later r...

3 Apr 2023

Students for sustainability… Earth School Singapore founder Cassandra Yip-Lee

News / Waste

Asia struggles to contain record e-waste deluge, UN report shows

...ther than discarding them, the report said. “Amidst the hopeful embrace of solar panels and electronic equipment to combat the climate crisis and drive digital progress, the surge in e-waste requires ...

20 Mar 2024

Asia struggles to contain record e-waste deluge, UN report shows

Press Releases / Imagine H2O Asia

Introducing Imagine H2O Asia's fifth cohort of water tech startups

...the Singapore-based water solutions accelerator to access market entry support and pilot funding across the region. The UN recently reported that progress towards achieving universal access to water a...

22 Feb 2024

Introducing Imagine H2O Asia's fifth cohort of water tech startups

News / Energy

World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar

...the US, Mexico, Brazil and Chile, among many others in the Americas, Ember says. As shown in the below chart, where the light green line shows solar trending above 2022 generation levels (dark green l...

11 Oct 2023

World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar

Podcasts / Lifestyle

'Our own narratives told': Through the lenses of young Orang Asli women filmmakers

...the Indigenous peoples and gender rights. The women then explored themes that they felt were important to them in story lab sessions. And they decided to tell the stories about their identity as Oran...

7 Mar 2023

'Our own narratives told': Through the lenses of young Orang Asli women filmmakers

News / Energy

Solar power to the people

...the community originally agreed to the plant and were paid for their land, Abdi says that without the other benefits they were promised, they now regret their decision. “I wish we’d been more enlighte...

6 Feb 2023

Solar power to the people

News / Carbon & Climate

AI to play a bigger role in solving Asia’s sustainability challenges: Google

...the El Niño weather phenomenon bringing searing heatwaves and droughts interspersed with stronger and more unpredictable typhoon seasons. The region, which sweltered through the hottest year on record...

21 Jun 2024

AI to play a bigger role in solving Asia’s sustainability challenges: Google

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why it’s more important than ever to invest in the voluntary carbon market

...when companies purchased carbon credits, they also voluntarily attached a price to their own emissions, the study found, resulting in an annual cash expenditure in their budget which they would then t...

11 Aug 2023

Why it’s more important than ever to invest in the voluntary carbon market

News / Policy & Finance

As San Miguel Corp posts bumper profits, Filipino communities demand end to its fossil fuel financing

...the biodiverse Verde Island Passage in the southern part of the Luzon island group, added the letter. The document also warned stockholders of the financial risks they are assuming with the continued ...

14 Jun 2023

As San Miguel Corp posts bumper profits, Filipino communities demand end to its fossil fuel financing

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