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News / Carbon & Climate

TNFD launches framework on nature-related risk reporting; recommends voluntary market adoption

...carbon disclosure non-profit CDP, added that its current disclosure system includes forests and water, and many questions in its questionnaires align with metrics within the TNFD framework. “The TNFD ...

19 Sep 2023

TNFD launches framework on nature-related risk reporting; recommends voluntary market adoption

COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber and ministers

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Navigating the UAE Consensus: How should businesses in the Middle East respond?

...carbonisation targets that are aligned climate science. Image: UNclimatechange/Flickr However, this will require purposeful and scalable investment, not just in assets and technologies, but in the pe...

26 Jun 2024

Navigating the UAE Consensus: How should businesses in the Middle East respond?

News / Policy & Finance

Modest tax rates on the global elite could close huge climate finance gap: UN-backed report

...carbon inequalities while unlocking climate finance for developing countries. "Global carbon inequality" shown through a comparison of the global bottom 50 per cent, middle 40 per cent, and top 10 pe...

3 Feb 2023

Modest tax rates on the global elite could close huge climate finance gap: UN-backed report

Press Releases / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Asian and Pacific countries at UN forum agree on measures to shape energy transition, address climate crisis

Asian and Pacific countries agreed today on measures to shape the future of energy use and generation, and to address climate change in a region that consumes more than 40 per cent of the world’...

28 Oct 2023

Asian and Pacific countries at UN forum agree on measures to shape energy transition, address climate crisis

Opinion / Cities

The urban jungle needs more trees

...carbon dioxide or reverse degradation to the point where an ecosystem once again becomes a "net sink" of carbon (storing more carbon than it emits). Of all the methods for reducing the heat island ef...

20 Mar 2023

The urban jungle needs more trees

Davao Public Transport Modernization Project,

News / Transport

What the Philippines' US$1 billion electric bus project means for female commuters and the environment

...carbon buses will service about 800,000 passengers per day, reducing 60 per cent of annual greenhouse gas emissions, estimated the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is loaning US$1 billion to the Ph...

7 Jul 2023

What the Philippines' US$1 billion electric bus project means for female commuters and the environment

News / Carbon & Climate

'People of the forest': Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land

...carbon-capturing rainforests inhabited by such communities. In late 2016, Indonesia announced that it would return customary lands to Indigenous peoples - starting with 13,000 hectares (32,124 acres) ...

7 Aug 2023

'People of the forest': Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land

Olam name on the wall at office in Singapore

News / Food & Agriculture

Olam appoints Jacelyn Tan as climate action project manager

...carbonise. Jacelyn Tan is Olam's climate action project manager. Image: LinkedIn In Tan's new role, she will work on ways to decarbonise the company's global supply chains, with a focus on priority ...

30 Nov 2022

Olam appoints Jacelyn Tan as climate action project manager

News / Lifestyle

Conscious fashion app Smthgood launches to woo eco-driven Asian women

...carbon offsetting marketplace, Carbon Trade Exchange, to buy carbon credits to offset the emissions of the site. Smthgood launches at a time of growing eco-minded consumerism in the region, and will c...

6 Jan 2023

Conscious fashion app Smthgood launches to woo eco-driven Asian women

Opinion / Energy

Solar geoengineering is a dangerous distraction

At the most recent United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) held in Nairobi, African countries took a strong stand against potential new technologies that, if developed, could tip an already disrup...

5 Apr 2024

Solar geoengineering is a dangerous distraction

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation fans fire risk in Borneo as temperatures rise

...carbon-rich peatlands on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea. The infernos, strengthened by dry weather caused by El Niño, raged for months, in the process emitting more carbon dioxide than ...

31 Mar 2023

Deforestation fans fire risk in Borneo as temperatures rise

News / Water

Infants at higher risk in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh

A team of researchers have measured the burden of living in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh and found that it significantly raises the likelihood of children dying by their first birthday. Climate cha...

3 Jan 2024

Infants at higher risk in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh

Research / MioTech

The green leap: How the energy transition is transforming China's economy

China’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 is accelerating the transformation of its economic activity and energy mix, signalling a major shift in how energy in the country is supplied and ...

13 Dec 2022

The green leap: How the energy transition is transforming China's economy

Jurong Island, Singapore's oil refining and chemicals hub

News / Energy

Carbon capture adoption must grow 120-fold to meet 2050 climate goals: study

...carbon dioxide before it can fizzle into the atmosphere, then stores it underground or reuses it to make new products. The need for carbon removal is “unavoidable” if the world is to meet global temp...

2 Nov 2022

Carbon capture adoption must grow 120-fold to meet 2050 climate goals: study

Rafael Consing Jr, Maharlika Investment Corporation president and CEO

News / Policy & Finance

Philippines eyes idle green mining assets to seed sovereign wealth fund

To prevent racking up more national debt from running its first-ever sovereign wealth fund, the Philippines may turn to privatising idle mining assets, particularly those that might benefit from the c...

15 Oct 2024

Philippines eyes idle green mining assets to seed sovereign wealth fund

News / Water

Filipino conservationists fear new law rubs salt in mangrove wound

...carbon. As well as acting as a natural barrier to coastal erosion and storms, they also support a range of wildlife and provide nutrients to the wider ecosystem, boosting fish stocks. That's why conse...

3 Apr 2024

Filipino conservationists fear new law rubs salt in mangrove wound

News / Policy & Finance

Early 'loss and damage' funding puts communities in driver's seat

...carbon emissions and adapting to their impacts. Finance experts said the "additionality" of loss and damage financing should be looked for at the source of funding, and not in destination communities....

27 Nov 2023

Early 'loss and damage' funding puts communities in driver's seat

Singapore Marina Bay Finance Centre Towers

News / Policy & Finance

Poor sustainability credentials are rarely seen as a barrier to investment for Asia funds: Study

...carbon emissions compared to industry peers, to lapses in labour policies for a company that operates a lot of factories. The study this year aggregated responses from 100 Asian funds each with at lea...

9 Nov 2023

Poor sustainability credentials are rarely seen as a barrier to investment for Asia funds: Study

Ascott GSTC MOU signing for hotel sustainability training

News / Carbon & Climate

Net-zero hotels realistic, but industry 'too fragmented' for global pledge: Sustainable tourism council chief

Big hotels have the ability to neutralise their carbon emissions by mid-century, but setting a global pledge covering all the players might be too difficult, according to the head of a nonprofit that ...

25 Jul 2023

Net-zero hotels realistic, but industry 'too fragmented' for global pledge: Sustainable tourism council chief

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund

In the vein of “We Are the World,” the 1985 hit that sold more than 20 million copies globally, the song “Lasting Legacy” was released at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Duba...

2 Feb 2024

Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund

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