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Akshat Garg joins WWF-Singapore Asia sustainable finance team

The Singapore office of conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has appointed Akshat Garg to its sustainable finance team. Garg comes on board as assistant vice president, Asia Sustainable...

26 May 2023

Akshat Garg joins WWF-Singapore Asia sustainable finance team

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Lack of plans to reduce Scope 3 emissions not seen as a ‘high climate risk’ by most Asian investors

Despite half of Asia Pacific investors expressing high concern about climate change, most (68 per cent) do not consider companies lacking plans to reduce their Scope 3 emissions to be risky investment...

6 Feb 2024

Lack of plans to reduce Scope 3 emissions not seen as a ‘high climate risk’ by most Asian investors

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Credit rating methods are failing to give investors early warning of climate risks: study

...carbon intensive or lack a clear carbon transition pathway, and yet be assigned a high investment grade rating due to its high ability to repay its debt in the next three to five years,” said Ilango. ...

17 Mar 2023

Credit rating methods are failing to give investors early warning of climate risks: study

News / Carbon & Climate

‘The phase down of fossil fuels is both essential and inevitable’: COP28's Razan Al Mubarak

...carbon emissions information," she wrote recently in an op-ed. Razan is also the daughter of Khalifa Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Mubarak, a former UAE ambassador to France who was assassinated in 1984 in Paris...

17 Oct 2023

‘The phase down of fossil fuels is both essential and inevitable’: COP28's Razan Al Mubarak

News / Energy

Changing coal use in the EU and China since the energy crisis

...carbon transition, fail to stick to its commitments in time of crisis? In fact, recent research has found that coal’s share of the European energy mix has not significantly increased. This is due to f...

14 Apr 2023

Changing coal use in the EU and China since the energy crisis

A single-use plastic soup spoon in use in HK

News / Waste

Hong Kong single-use plastic ban stirs debate over affordability of alternatives

A ban on single-use plastic tableware introduced in Hong Kong today will test the resourcefulness of the city's smaller eateries, which have been struggling to source affordable alternatives to throwa...

22 Apr 2024

Hong Kong single-use plastic ban stirs debate over affordability of alternatives

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New Philippine sovereign wealth fund to support clean energy push has corruption safeguards, says government rep

...carbon energy, said a Department of Finance representative, in the government's latest pitch to its external partners. Political and government leaders have been actively pushing the controversial fu...

19 Sep 2023

New Philippine sovereign wealth fund to support clean energy push has corruption safeguards, says government rep

News / Cities

How bioengineering saved a Himalayan road from floods

...carbon dioxide absorption, habitat creation for wildlife, increased ecosystem resilience and additional livelihood sources for local communities. Harvesting grass planted by the roadside has saved Son...

15 May 2024

How bioengineering saved a Himalayan road from floods

Press Releases / Singapore International Energy Week

'Energy transition towards a net zero world': 16th Singapore International Energy Week

...carbon technologies, as well as the policies required to better deploy technologies to decarbonise and accelerate electrification. SIEW delegates can look forward to discussions on how gover...

19 Apr 2023

'Energy transition towards a net zero world': 16th Singapore International Energy Week

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is climate risk disclosure?

...carbon economy. All need to be strategically considered by businesses and investors that want to be prepared for future climate scenarios. While the mainstreaming of climate risk disclosure adds anoth...

8 Dec 2022

Explainer: What is climate risk disclosure?

News / Cities

Brahmkshatriya joins CBRE’s cities consulting practice in India

...carbon social housing project on a landfill site in Torbay, UK, and developing low carbon planning and design tools for cities in India funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Offic...

1 Dec 2022

Brahmkshatriya joins CBRE’s cities consulting practice in India

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Toxic, deadly, cheap: Life for women gold miners in the Philippines

It's a man's world mining gold in the Philippines - but it's the women who come off worst. Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil ...

29 Aug 2024

Toxic, deadly, cheap: Life for women gold miners in the Philippines

News / Cities

India’s Bihar has a plan for extreme heat. Why are so many people dying?

In a brief press release dated 31 May 2024, the Disaster Management Department (DMD) of the Indian state of Bihar – one the hottest and most humid in the country – said 14 people died of extreme heat...

5 Jun 2024

India’s Bihar has a plan for extreme heat. Why are so many people dying?

News / Food & Agriculture

Seafood farming surpasses wild catch for the first time: FAO

For the first time in history, we now farm more seafood than we catch from the wild. At the same time, overfishing of wild fish stocks continues to increase even as the number of sustainably fished st...

18 Jul 2024

Seafood farming surpasses wild catch for the first time: FAO

A farmer protesting in the city of Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh.

News / Food & Agriculture

Indian farmers are killing themselves in record numbers. Is climate change to blame?

Ramdas Udane, a 58 year-old small-scale cotton farmer who works his fields on the Deccan Plateau, is grappling with mounting debt. His hopes of repaying the $10,000 he owes to a private lender diminis...

2 Feb 2024

Indian farmers are killing themselves in record numbers. Is climate change to blame?

Press Releases / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

GIZ, Asean Centre for Biodiversity celebrate 14-year partnership

Driven by a shared vision to conserve, sustainably manage, and equitably share benefits from biodiversity for the well-being of people in Southeast Asia, the Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and th...

25 Mar 2024

GIZ, Asean Centre for Biodiversity celebrate 14-year partnership

News / Food & Agriculture

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

...carbon sequestration abilities. However, it will test for organic carbon and calcium carbonate (an inorganic form of carbon). This will help calculate stores of carbon in different types of soil, and ...

4 Aug 2022

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

Opinion / Energy

The Asean Power Grid: how the LTMS power project can inform the BIMP project's development

Electricity grids are at the heart of the energy transition agenda. By 2040, the world will need to develop more than 80 million kilometres of power lines. This is important because increasing the use...

28 Feb 2024

The Asean Power Grid: how the LTMS power project can inform the BIMP project's development

News / Cities

Nepal’s migrant workers eye overseas jobs as climate threats loom

In November, Prem Nepali was on the same plane as delegates headed to Dubai for COP28. But while they shared an aircraft, their reasons to be in Dubai were entirely different. The dignitaries were tra...

28 Feb 2024

Nepal’s migrant workers eye overseas jobs as climate threats loom

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Rich biomes under threat despite zero-deforestation commitments, warns study

...carbon sequestration, as they can have high below-ground carbon stocks, in plant roots and soil, but this is also often overlooked,” says Fleiss. Even though the implications for greenhouse gas emissi...

10 Jan 2023

Rich biomes under threat despite zero-deforestation commitments, warns study

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