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...cycle. Most assessment cycles also saw the publication of “special reports”, focusing on specific areas of climate change, and “methodology reports” – technical documents that focus on specific areas ...

24 Sep 2025

...ckly. Even when changing the hot receiver, his only protection is a damp cotton cloth. The heat from the furnace is not the only danger. Zaffer works in a closed estate with a large tin-covered compou...

25 Jul 2024

University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership postgraduate students during a workshop exercise. Source: CISL

...cific circumstances. For sustainability leadership, context is key because it helps reveal systems interdependencies – how environmental, social, and economic factors interact in specific places. Payi...

20 Mar 2026

...cific. (If a tropical cyclone forms in the Atlantic Ocean or north-eastern Pacific Ocean, it is called a hurricane.) Even for a disaster-prone country, such rapid “clustering” of typhoons was “unprece...

20 Dec 2024

...checked, such trends could lead to “tipping points”, after which climate events could spiral out of control. There is already suspicion within the scientific community that Earth is recently warming f...

5 Jan 2024

...ces while not jeopardising its climate action targets. “ Electricity and computing are seen as public services – which means they should be easy to access and low-cost. But to hit the country’s c...

16 Sep 2025

Construction workers under the sun in Singapore

...CCRS’ customised Regional Climate Model from six selected Global Climate Models (GCMs). CCRS also engaged about 20 government agencies. For context, GCMs like the IPCC AR6 typically have a spatial re...

5 Jan 2024

Green Climate Fund approves US$103 million to strengthen early warning systems for vulnerable countries

...ce forecasting capabilities, and ensure that critical early warnings reach the most remote and at-risk communities. The financial support comes at a crucial moment as Least Developed Countries and Sm...

3 Mar 2025

...ch extreme heat, and second, for perishable products like fruits, vegetables and dairy products, a lack of cold chains. Aditi Mukherji, director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action...

4 Jul 2024

...crometers in diameter and can travel to the lungs – reached a peak concentration of 1,667 micrograms per cubic metre according to the Beijing Municipal Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Centre. ...

27 Dec 2023

...ccounts for 28 per cent, while nitrous oxide accounts for around 5 per cent. The remaining 25 per cent comes from other factors including carbon monoxide, black carbon and halocarbons, such as CFCs. H...

16 Jan 2024

...cise economic and financial costs vary, the overall picture is sobering. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries forecasts that climate change will mean global gross domestic product (GDP) losses of 50...

27 Jan 2025

...ch as intense heat and drought. But the researchers chose the extreme which occurred closest to the price rise for “simplicity of communication” on the map. The research team selected “prominent” cas...

24 Jul 2025

...ction. 10. America’s attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton Hurricane Katrina woke up America to climate change, but climate science is now u...

29 Dec 2025

eFishery's co-founders Gibran Huzaifah and Chrisna Aditya

...company claims to have cut feed costs – which typically account for 70 to 90 per cent of total production costs for farmers in Indonesia – through its solutions, while lowering carbon footprint and im...

23 Dec 2024

...coal capacity around the world reached its lowest level in 20 years. China and India have also seen significant drops in their pre-construction coal capacity over the past decade. In 2015, China had ...

10 Apr 2025

...c and philanthropic capital to crowd in more private capital to close the climate financing gap. Climate blended finance deals reached a record high last year, after a significant decline in 2022 and ...

13 Nov 2024

Sustainability start-ups Krosslinker and Ayrton Energy secure S$1 million each in catalytic funding at The Liveability Challenge 2025 Grand Finale

...ckle escalating climate crises. By matching catalytic capital with the most promising solutions in climate change, the Challenge accelerates the commercialisation of transformative technologies, espec...

7 May 2025

Forum calls for targeted, evidence-based solutions to speed up sustainable development progress

...concrete actions,” urged Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). &ldqu...

3 Mar 2025

...ce political resistance to raising electricity tariffs. Without concessional capital to offset transition costs, governments may be forced to delay coal plant retirement projects,” Nesan concluded. “T...

13 Aug 2025

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