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Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

Electric cars are intended to help mitigate the climate impacts of the transportation sector, which is responsible for about 15 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But since electric vehicles...

26 Mar 2020

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

News / Carbon & Climate

New UN environment chief seeks fair deal for all in climate fight

...renewables made up more than 40 per cent of the energy mix last year - beating coal for the first time. Four in ten of the world's coal plants are unprofitable, a November report by think tank Carbon ...

27 Jun 2019

New UN environment chief seeks fair deal for all in climate fight

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Saving Pacific islanders from geoengineering

Geoengineering will save us from the climate crisis, its champions insist. By using technology either to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or to deflect some solar radiation away from the Ear...

30 Sep 2019

Saving Pacific islanders from geoengineering

Press Releases / ASEAN Centre for Energy

What does renewable energy mean to Singapore’s youth?

...renewables target under the ASEAN’s blueprint for regional energy cooperation; ASEAN Plan of Actions for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) 2016 – 2025. The APAEC set a regional target to inc...

4 Mar 2019

What does renewable energy mean to Singapore’s youth?

News / Cities

'Living laboratory': New Dubai city pushes for green revolution in the desert

Fenced off by a wall of trees, about 20 km from the high rises towering over Dubai's city centre, there lies a small solar-powered settlement aiming to become a green oasis in the desert. Renowned for...

28 Oct 2019

'Living laboratory': New Dubai city pushes for green revolution in the desert

News / Cities

Can Asia's climate-cooked cities beat the heat?

Can Asia's climate-cooked cities beat the heat? With less than a year to go to the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo is coating close to 100 kilometres of road with cooling material and feeding weather data to ath...

24 Sep 2019

Can Asia's climate-cooked cities beat the heat?

Builders work together to finish a house.

News / Green Buildings

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

The buildings and construction sector consumes more than a third of global energy used by final consumers, excluding the energy sector itself, according to United Nations climate experts. While the en...

8 Jul 2019

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

Children hold a WWF banner to celebrate 55 years of operations for the NGO in Indonesia. Image: WWF-Indonesia/Novie Sartyawan

News / Food & Agriculture

WWF has forest conservation fieldwork permit revoked in Indonesia

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), one of the world’s largest environmental non-government organisations (NGO), has halted much of its forest conservation work in Indonesia after the government can...

26 Nov 2019

WWF has forest conservation fieldwork permit revoked in Indonesia

News / Energy

Vietnam’s golden solar years aren’t over, despite policy changes

Đọc tiếng Việt A new era dawns for solar power in Vietnam. Last month, the Vietnamese government announced it would shift to an auction system for future ground-mounted solar projects, overruling a pr...

9 Dec 2019

Vietnam’s golden solar years aren’t over, despite policy changes

The Banten Suralaya coal complex in Banten, Java. The station will use ultra-supercritical technology, and is mainly funded by state utility PLN with financial advice from DBS Bank. Image: Greenpeace

News / Policy & Finance

An Indonesian village held hostage by coal pleads for change

Every day, Subur and his wife walk past giant chimneys, painted red and white at the crown, pouring smoke out of a cluster of coal plants. Subur, 70, says he had no idea that two new coal-fired plants...

5 Feb 2021

An Indonesian village held hostage by coal pleads for change

Opinion / Transport

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

...renewables does not increase the already significant environmental and human impacts of mining, greater rates of recycling and responsible sourcing are essential. Recycling can offset demand for new m...

17 Apr 2019

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?

It’s only three months into 2020. And already we’re seeing the prediction that this will be an exponential decade proving to be a pretty low-risk bet. Australia has been on fire, Delhi has seen deadl...

17 Mar 2020

Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?

News / Energy

Natural gas to be ‘substantial part’ of Singapore's energy mix for next 50 years

Fossil fuels will continue to form a “substantial part” of Singapore’s energy mix for the next 50 years, even as it ramps up deployment of solar power and looks at ways to tap regional power grids. To...

30 Oct 2019

Natural gas to be ‘substantial part’ of Singapore's energy mix for next 50 years

News / Energy

Asia’s thirsty coal-fired power plants face water scarcity

...Renewables edging out coal in South-East Asia Cities must lead the clean energy drive, says report Wei Peng, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering, Penn State Univers...

8 Oct 2019

Asia’s thirsty coal-fired power plants face water scarcity

climate change march in vatican city 2015

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

Eco-Business has raised an important question in asking how the climate crisis can cut through the Covid-19 media storm last week. But this question can be resolved by realising that the two issues s...

1 Apr 2020

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Green markets for equitable growth

...renewables quickly and cost-effectively enough to keep the engines of growth running. Fortunately, we already know that this is possible. The key is a global carbon market. “ Today, despite accountin...

18 Nov 2019

Green markets for equitable growth

News / Carbon & Climate

Could China adopt more ‘trees-to-power’ technology?

...renewables such as wind and solar. Cities will only consider requiring CCUS installed at coal-fired power plants after they have reached peak carbon, according to Li. “Most Chinese cities are expected...

15 Apr 2021

Could China adopt more ‘trees-to-power’ technology?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

Recent progress on sustainability in the finance industry has been encouraging. Initiatives such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Principles for Responsible Ba...

11 Aug 2020

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

The term “carbon neutral” is being increasingly slung around alongside phrases like “net zero emissions”. From paint manufacturers and the livestock industry, to banks and developers, more corporatio...

13 Jan 2020

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever top polluters 2019

News / Waste

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'

Food and beverage firms Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the world's biggest plastic polluters, a study of litter found on beaches, streets, homes, and parks in 50 countries has revealed. The same f...

24 Oct 2019

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'

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