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News / Policy & Finance

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

...1.5 million people have died in natural disasters in the last 20 years, and crises such as hurricanes and severe droughts cost $30bn a year across 77 of the poorest countries, officials from Britain's...

31 Jul 2017

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

News / Energy

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

...15-22. Source: Renewables 2017 Pre-launch Media Webinar. But the IEA expects the overall share of renewables in heat consumption to increase only slowly, rising from 9 per cent in 2015 to 11 per cent...

6 Oct 2017

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why smart investors are targeting the companies solving the world’s sustainability problems

...100 asset owners and managers with over $1 trillion in holdings to identify best practices and offerings, and repositioned their entire portfolio towards sustainable investments. The early results are...

17 Jan 2017

Why smart investors are targeting the companies solving the world’s sustainability problems

A temperature rise of 6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times is projected for some parts of Asia Pacific by 2100, which is expected to result in drastic changes in the region’s weather systems, agriculture, biodiversity, trade and urban development. Image: Asia Development Bank

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change will force mass migration of 1 billion by 2100

...100. Such increases in temperature will lead to drastic changes in the region’s weather systems, agriculture and fisheries, biodiversity, trade and urban development. Large temperature increases are t...

26 Jul 2017

Climate change will force mass migration of 1 billion by 2100

News / Food & Agriculture

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

...17 impacts report. This documented a 70 per cent increase in RSPO-certified area in Africa, and an 11 per cent rise in Latin America. In Africa, RSPO members also identified 13,405 hectares of new "...

7 Mar 2018

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

Opinion / Waste

In banning plastic bags we need to make sure we’re not creating new problems

...15-16 National Litter Index, reported a 6.2 per cent reduction in the littering of plastic bags relative to the previous year, while also noting that these represent only 1 per cent of litter. Meanwhi...

25 Jul 2017

In banning plastic bags we need to make sure we’re not creating new problems

Press Releases / Stockland

Stockland supports Earth Hour 10 year anniversary

...10 year anniversary on Saturday 25th March 2017, by turning off all non-essential lighting and pylon signage for one hour across its 76 retail, office, logistics and business parks assets across the c...

14 Mar 2017

Stockland supports Earth Hour 10 year anniversary

Press Releases / Singapore Environment Council

Sixty per cent of Singapore's Students Mobilised to Save the Environment

...1,094 4-Room HDB flats for a year Water: 130,000,000 litres, the water required to fill 52 Olympic-sized swimming pools E-Waste: 47,362 kilograms, the weight of five SBS Buses A record of 410 sch...

8 Nov 2017

Sixty per cent of Singapore's Students Mobilised to Save the Environment

News / Carbon & Climate

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

Two US scientists have solved the hypothetical puzzle of the century: how to explain the reported climate “hiatus” and reconcile two different ways of predicting the global temperature by 2100. They...

21 Jul 2017

That climate hiatus: what’s really going on

Oil rigs in the field beside the interstate

News / Policy & Finance

How to work better together to achieve the SDGs

...1990s. That was when she realised that Asia required a new paradigm because “prosperity in the 21st century has to be generated in a very different way, and has to put people and the planet at the cen...

20 Jun 2017

How to work better together to achieve the SDGs

A child finds a teddy bear in a waste bank in Depok, West Java.

Opinion / Waste

Depok: The front line in Indonesia’s fight against waste

...16 per cent of which comes from Indonesia as the second-biggest contributor. In 2016, the country alone generated 3.2 million tons of plastic waste, of which 1.29 million ended up in the oceans. Fortu...

12 Oct 2017

Depok: The front line in Indonesia’s fight against waste

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Is your business fit for tomorrow’s markets? How to do the math

...1: Complete a life cycle assessment In recent years, companies have turned to life cycle assessments (LCAs) to identify where their products have the greatest environmental impacts. This helps compani...

17 Aug 2017

Is your business fit for tomorrow’s markets? How to do the math

Press Releases / CSE

Sustainability Academy:1 year of Innovation in E-learning for CSR

Celebrating 1 year of successfully providing Online Certified Courses in Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, the Sustainability Academy is recognized by top professionals all over the world, ...

29 Jul 2016

Sustainability Academy:1 year of Innovation in E-learning for CSR

Opinion / Water

Hong Kong’s water insecurity: A reflection of its political dilemma

...15 was 21 per cent higher than the global average. Also, a huge amount of water—about 32.5 per cent of total production, or 321 million cubic metres—is lost due to theft and leakage. Another reason f...

11 Sep 2017

Hong Kong’s water insecurity: A reflection of its political dilemma

News / Food & Agriculture

The top 5 food and agriculture stories in 2016

...1 hotspots were recorded in Sumatra this year, compared to 7,188 in 2015. Jokowi closed out the year by enshrining the peat moratorium into law, a move that was welcomed by some observers such as th...

27 Dec 2016

The top 5 food and agriculture stories in 2016

Press Releases / Eco-Business

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

...1933 and today Danfoss holds market-leading positions, across the Asia Pacific region, with 14 sales offices in 10 countries and with more than 100 partners joining forces to engineer the dreams of to...

5 Apr 2018

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

News / Carbon & Climate

Best ways to cut climate change are overlooked

...15 Paris Agreement. “ Living car-free saves about 2.4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, while eating a plant-based diet saves 0.8 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year. Seth Wynes, researcher, Lund Unive...

14 Jul 2017

Best ways to cut climate change are overlooked

Press Releases / Olam International

Entries for second Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security now open

...17. Olam Prize 2014/5 laureate launches international research network thanks to win Winner of the inaugural Olam International Prize for Innovation in Food Security in 2015, SRI International Netwo...

15 Oct 2016

Entries for second Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security now open

Opinion / Policy & Finance

This is what a private-sector solution to the refugee crisis looks like

...1 has evolved into multiple brutal conflicts that are destabilising the entire Middle East, eroding people’s freedoms, undermining their safety, and transforming the very nature of their societies. Th...

13 Jun 2017

This is what a private-sector solution to the refugee crisis looks like

Press Releases / WiseOnWater

British Water publishes code of practice for SuDS technology

...1:2 year rainfall events likely to cause washout Capability of filter media to retain dissolved pollutants under the influence of de-icing salt Ms Perez said, “The tests can be completed by ...

21 Mar 2017

British Water publishes code of practice for SuDS technology

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