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Speakers at the launch of The Liveability Challenge

News / Cities

The innovation that will save our cities

...100 sustainability professionals, government representatives and civil society leaders were gathered at Bar Rouge on the 71st floor of Swissôtel The Stamford. Pointing to the birds eye view of Singapo...

23 May 2018

The innovation that will save our cities

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Goldilocks dilemma of Singapore's carbon tax

...10 and S$15 per tonne. Following rounds of consultation with the public and industry, it was clear that one priority was preventing a drastic fallout by the battered power generation sector, which ha...

26 Apr 2018

The Goldilocks dilemma of Singapore's carbon tax

News / Policy & Finance

Cambodia dismisses claims of illicit sand exports despite ban

...1 after gathering silica sand for producing glass, while the video was likely filmed afterwards. The ministry banned sand exports in November 2016 after public outrage over large inconsistencies betwe...

8 May 2017

Cambodia dismisses claims of illicit sand exports despite ban

News / Energy

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

...17, a three-fold increase over the previous year. Assuming the installed cost of a standard battery is about AU$10,000 (US$7,800), that suggests a 2017 value of around AU$200 million (US$155.3 million...

23 Apr 2018

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

News / Waste

5 ways to win the war on plastic pollution

...1 to November 1 and organised by advocacy group Boomerang Alliance, the conference brought together some 300 experts from across the plastic value chain to discuss ways to harness the useful propertie...

7 Nov 2017

5 ways to win the war on plastic pollution

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

...1 seedlings are expected to yield 10.8 tonnes of CPO per hectare, and the Eka 2 seedlings will deliver an even greater 13.0 tonnes per hectare. The company says the seeds are also more resistant to d...

26 May 2017

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

Yummy things wrapped in plastic found in supermarkets in Singapore

Opinion / Manufacturing

Why the Singapore Packaging Agreement has no teeth

...16 awardees saw two extremes. Within the same category, one company saw annual cost savings of $117,000, and another, $140. The descriptions of the awardees also raises some eyebrows, with certain c...

12 Jun 2017

Why the Singapore Packaging Agreement has no teeth

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

...100km, and they factored local data in each grid concerning maximum daily rainfall, as well as annual global temperatures. They ran their models both forwards and backwards in time from 1950 to 2100 –...

25 May 2017

Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

Wind turbines on a solar farm in Ningxia Province in Northern China

Opinion / Energy

The risks of a global supergrid

...16, similar proposals date back at least to the 1970s when an initiative known as the Global Energy Network Institute pushed for an electricity grid spanning the entire planet. A less ambitious propo...

24 Jul 2018

The risks of a global supergrid

News / Waste

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

...1, 2016, A Snapshot of Global PV (1992-2016), IEA Publishing. License: www.iea.org/t&c. Click to expand. The solution many are looking to is recycling. But the ability to handle the coming flow o...

18 Apr 2018

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

5 ways to make Asian cities more inclusive

...1. Focus on the poor, vulnerable. First, we need to accurately identify the vulnerable groups in urban areas. Vulnerable people are not resilient against natural or economic risks. They are often the ...

22 Feb 2018

5 ways to make Asian cities more inclusive