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Honest, accurate, transparent? How is China faring at sustainability reporting?

From one angle, corporate China is a sustainability prize fighter. The world's leading solar and electric vehicle firms hail from China, and it's home to some of the world's largest wind energy compan...

27 Aug 2019

Honest, accurate, transparent? How is China faring at sustainability reporting?

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News / Policy & Finance

How China grew its US$30 billion green bond market

In 2018, China issued just over US$30 billion worth of green bonds, putting the country in second place globally behind the United States bond issuance. And how China did this is as important as what ...

29 Mar 2019

How China grew its US$30 billion green bond market

Press Releases / City Developments Limited

Enlarging outreach to stakeholders.Changing the climate via urgent actions

Key highlights of ESG performance in 2018 First Singapore real estate company to obtain SBTi’s validation for its carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 59 per cent First Singapore r...

28 Mar 2019

Enlarging outreach to stakeholders.Changing the climate via urgent actions

News / Waste

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

Solar power is having its hockey stick moment. Since the early 2000s, the amount of solar panels being installed worldwide has been growing exponentially, and it’s expected to continue to do so for de...

18 Apr 2018

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

News / Green Buildings

In climate-stressed Singapore, the future is super low energy buildings

As part of a national plan to lower carbon emissions and fight climate change, Singapore has introduced a new standard to produce "super low energy" buildings. The tropical city-state wants office bui...

7 Sep 2018

In climate-stressed Singapore, the future is super low energy buildings

News / Food & Agriculture

Feeding Japan's appetite for meat

With the world’s population expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050 and continued growth in demand for meat, the livestock sector is facing renewed pressure to provide the nutrition to feed that many mo...

24 Apr 2019

Feeding Japan's appetite for meat

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Mahathir is back—good news or bad for sustainability in Malaysia?

He’s back. Tan Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammed reclaimed the position he had held for more than two decades as prime minister of Malaysia after a bitterly contested election last week. His party, Pakatan Har...

13 May 2018

Mahathir is back—good news or bad for sustainability in Malaysia?

Opinion / Waste

Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation—here's how to make it climate-friendly

We’re all too aware of the consequences of plastics in the oceans and on land. However, beyond the visible pollution of our once pristine habitats, plastics are having a grave impact on the climate to...

17 May 2019

Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation—here's how to make it climate-friendly

A burning peatland inside the area palm oil concession of PT Sumatera Unggul Makmur in West Kalimantan on 22 August 2018. Image: Greenpeace

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

Deforestation poses a bigger problem for the climate than burning coal in Indonesia, a senior executive from the Southeast Asian country's infrastructure investment arm said at an event on Thursday. ...

3 Sep 2018

Deforestation is a bigger climate threat than 'green' coal, says Indonesian official

In connection with the beginning of the COP24 UN climate summit, activists of the Democracy Action campaign demonstrated in Chorzów.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Here's why there will be few protests outside the UN climate talks

This weekend world leaders arrive in the Polish city of Katowice for the COP24 climate summit, where they will set out plans for implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. Over the course of two weeks ...

5 Dec 2018

Here's why there will be few protests outside the UN climate talks

News / Carbon & Climate

DBS is first Asian bank to launch climate policy—but it’s still funding coal

...renewables happens in a sustainable manner," he said. In addition to outlining DBS' policy on coal, Larsen added that the bank would stop financing new coal mines, and would "only support clients who ...

2 Feb 2018

DBS is first Asian bank to launch climate policy—but it’s still funding coal

News / Manufacturing

In Hong Kong, disposable fashion gets a recycled makeover

In Hong Kong, more than 340 tonnes of textile waste is dumped each day into the city's overflowing landfills, according to the city's Environmental Protection Department. But a new textile spinning mi...

19 Sep 2018

In Hong Kong, disposable fashion gets a recycled makeover

News / Energy

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

...renewables in heat consumption from 2015-22. Source: Renewables 2017 Pre-launch Media Webinar. But the IEA expects the overall share of renewables in heat consumption to increase only slowly, rising ...

6 Oct 2017

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40 per cent globally by 2022

Ghana workers maintaining a thermal power station

Opinion / Energy

Accelerating Africa's energy transition

...renewables. This would create stronger incentives to reduce fossil-fuel consumption, while encouraging investment and growth in green-energy output. For Africa’s rural regions, moreover, such policies...

17 Jan 2018

Accelerating Africa's energy transition

News / Cities

Cities can change the fate of the world's climate outlook: Christiana Figueres

One of the most iconic photographs from the signing of the Paris Agreement in the French capital in 2015 shows a row of United Nations officials and global leaders standing at a podium, joined hands r...

28 Feb 2018

Cities can change the fate of the world's climate outlook: Christiana Figueres

News / Policy & Finance

Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

Top officials and advocates are pushing at UN talks in Poland to ensure governments and businesses respect human rights when working to build a green future under the Paris climate pact. The climate c...

13 Dec 2018

Human rights protection hangs in balance at UN climate talks

News / Energy

Singapore has declared 2018 the year of climate action—so why are its banks still funding coal?

...renewables, and at current rates, coal is predicted to be the region's dominant energy source by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency. Though lagging some of their international peers o...

10 Jan 2018

Singapore has declared 2018 the year of climate action—so why are its banks still funding coal?

News / Cities

Green and inclusive? Paris builds a zero-carbon future with a social conscience

Arrayed between elegant stone buildings and run-down railway tracks in the northwest of Paris lie bustling playgrounds, plant-filled ponds and stretches of lush grass. The Clichy-Batignolles area, a f...

2 Oct 2018

Green and inclusive? Paris builds a zero-carbon future with a social conscience

News / Energy

Is Taiwan’s 20 per cent renewable energy target a political pipe dream?

...renewables? Or is it just a political slogan?” asked Chiu. Echoing Chiu’s doubts was Betsy Liao, business manager of biomass firm Tsung Chang Industries. Asked if she thought Taiwan could meet its ren...

19 Oct 2017

Is Taiwan’s 20 per cent renewable energy target a political pipe dream?

News / Waste

Singapore’s war on waste—is there a better way?

Singapore needs to invest in a network of machines and plants to upcycle its discarded food, plastics and electronics if it wants to become a zero-waste nation and extend the use of its sole landfill,...

26 Jun 2019

Singapore’s war on waste—is there a better way?

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