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Sustainability startups Cricket One and GAFT win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2024

Singapore, 17 April 2024 – Cricket One and GAFT have emerged as the top winners at The Liveability Challenge (TLC) from a record-breaking number of more than 1,000 entries ...

17 Apr 2024

Demonstrators in Hanover, Germany protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

From Russia’s war against Ukraine to America’s rivalry with China, tectonic geopolitical shifts have shaken multilateralism in recent years. While many of the consequences – from surging food and ener...

7 Jun 2023

Workplace inclusion involves making staff feel psychologically safe to voice their opinions.

Workplace inclusion is key to purposeful businesses, because being excluded destroys culture, as I have previously written. The Great Recruitment (because we are optimists!) presents opportunities for...

11 Aug 2022

Scalable financing channels designed to funnel money to help a country shift away from fossil fuels, such as energy transition mechanisms (ETMs) that neighbouring economies have already adopted, are i...

11 Sep 2023

Yokogawa enters investment agreement with circular economy startup Ideation3X in India

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has made a US$10 million Series B investment in Ideation3X Pte. Ltd. (i3X), a Singapore-based venture company that is targeting the rapidl...

2 Feb 2023

On 20 September 2023, British prime minister Rishi Sunak, standing behind a lectern adorned with the slogan “long-term decisions for a brighter future”, announced a series of changes to cancel, delay ...

28 Sep 2023

Malaysia, which recently lifted a ban on exporting renewable energy, should focus less on selling its raw energy overseas and consider instead how it can use its clean energy capacity to attract forei...

18 Jul 2023

COP28 has ended with an agreement to "transition away" from fossil fuels. Read our latest update here. The COP28 climate summit is running overtime, as negotiators attempt to bridge huge chasms in the...

13 Dec 2023

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are arguably the most widely-recognised sustainability targets ever conceived. Born off the back of the historic Paris climate accord in 2015,...

30 May 2023

...equities in the Global South, where the majority of informal workers live. Given that women and girls, who account for a large share of the working poor, often bear the brunt of these measures, the cu...

23 Mar 2023

MAS, SGX Group to collab with Climate Data Steering Committee to strengthen global access to climate transition-related data

The Secretariat of the Climate Data Steering Committee (CDSC), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate o...

3 Jul 2023

Jurong Island view from Jurong Hill Tower

Transition finance used to be shunned by financiers, especially those in Europe, who have made net zero pledges. But the tide is slowly turning. “Over the last 12 months or so, there has been a change...

5 Jan 2024

Over the past year, the pace of hydropower development along the mainstream of the Mekong River in Laos has picked up, fuelled by long-term funding agreements. Chinese and Thai hydropower project inve...

28 Aug 2023

An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the nineteenth century when he warned that, absent fertility-control po...

28 Mar 2023

India’s upcoming budget announcement on 1 February is expected to provide further direction for India’s clean energy transition. With parliament having approved the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bil...

26 Jan 2023

Companies with more female representation in the boardroom tend to be more open and honest about their ESG performance, and are less prone to greenwashing,

Corporations with more gender-equal boards are less likely to exaggerate their sustainability credentials, according to a study of almost 4,000 firms in 29 countries. Researchers from University of Po...

24 Mar 2023

World Bank IMF 2022 development committee meeting

We must face, and act upon, an inconvenient truth. The impact of human activities on Earth’s geology and ecosystems is threatening the foundations of life on our planet and decades of progress in huma...

20 Feb 2023

...equities, real estate, and impact investments with an environmental focus. The group is led by its directors Stanley Tan, his daughter Kathlyn Tan, and her husband Thomas Riber Knudsen. Tan is a well ...

15 Feb 2022

Three decades of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have not achieved the desired results, calling into question the practicality of global, all-enco...

23 Aug 2022

The environmental, social and governance (ESG) ecosystem in India is in the early stages of its evolution, with the securities regulator having made it mandatory for the top 1,000 listed companies to ...

1 Nov 2022

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