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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Are the SDGs unsustainable?

...renewable energy and emissions reductions commensurate with a 1.5 degrees Celsius climate stabilisation. 3. The goals are unprioritised This is probably the most critical problem with the SDGs. Econo...

23 May 2018

Are the SDGs unsustainable?

News / Energy

New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies

...renewable energy by 2030, leading to an increase of around two percentage points. However, it is worth noting that the penetration of renewables is not in itself a specific policy goal of fossil fuel ...

15 Feb 2018

New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies

Opinion / Energy

Empowering local communities to finance their clean energy future

...renewable power systems. Solar panels, wind turbines, and micro hydro are small-scale, cheap, clean and do not damage the environment or relocate villagers. Power can be stored using efficient batteri...

26 Oct 2017

Empowering local communities to finance their clean energy future

News / Energy

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

...renewable resources. In China, a solar photovolatic plant was created to co-exist with a large hydropower dam in the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, becoming the world's largest hybrid project to date. T...

21 Aug 2018

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

A student at a vocational school in Osh, Kyrgyzstan practices her sewing

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Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

...renewable technologies. Similarly, while public financing of pensions and welfare programs is dependent on taxing labour, much of the region currently suffers from high rates of unemployment; in the W...

11 Apr 2018

Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

News / Energy

Singapore could be 25% solar-powered by 2025

...renewable energy option at present. Singapore’s official solar target is 350 megawatts peak (MWp) by 2020, and 1 GWp “beyond 2020”. The country’s current solar power capacity is 140 MWp, up from just...

25 Oct 2017

Singapore could be 25% solar-powered by 2025

Press Releases / Energy Market Authority

Rethinking energy; navigating change at the 10th edition of Singapore International Energy Week

...renewables, and energy investment opportunities in Asia. High-level attendees include: H.E. Dr Khammany Inthirath, Minister of Energy and Mines, Lao PDR H.E. Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Maximus Johnity ...

24 Oct 2017

Rethinking energy; navigating change at the 10th edition of Singapore International Energy Week

News / Policy & Finance

Where Will JPMorgan Chase put its 200 billion green dollars?

...renewable sources by 2020. The company offered a detailed strategy for achieving its own shift to renewables, which includes long-term power purchasing agreements like a 20-year deal it signed last ye...

1 Aug 2017

Where Will JPMorgan Chase put its 200 billion green dollars?

News / Carbon & Climate

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

...renewable energy development. In a workshop on urbanisation that will be facilitated by Lauren Sorkin, regional director of Asia and the Pacific at 100 Resilient Cities, the organisation’s Jakarta te...

9 Oct 2018

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why 2018 is the year for business to step up climate action

...renewables, and avoid investing in high-carbon infrastructure are not only being environmentally responsible, they are also future-proofing their growth by factoring in long-term risk and positioning ...

25 Jan 2018

Why 2018 is the year for business to step up climate action

News / Energy

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

...renewable energy sources, and that “chemists can contribute to the strategies by developing new materials that can convert and store energy,” he said. “In the future, our basic technology will unite d...

8 Mar 2018

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

News / Energy

Oceans could offer a wind-powered world

...Renewable world Research at this level does not answer the world’s energy problems: instead it sets out, once again, the viable possibility of a world driven by renewable energy, rather than the fossi...

30 Oct 2017

Oceans could offer a wind-powered world

News / Carbon & Climate

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100

...renewables The study explores the different ways that global energy needs can be met, while also cutting GHG emissions in order to meet the 1.5C goal. Limiting warming to below 1.5C requires that the ...

13 Mar 2018

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100

News / Waste

Natural waste holds promise of safe plastic

...renewable and compostable packaging, and how important food packaging overall is going to be as the population continues to grow,” said Carson Meredith, of Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of ...

3 Aug 2018

Natural waste holds promise of safe plastic

Trees made bare by acid rain in Smokey Mountain National Park, USA

News / Policy & Finance

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

Acid rain was a major environmental problem in the 1970s and 1980s. The phenomenon was caused by the reaction of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from power factories with moisture in the atmosphere...

7 Nov 2018

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

News / Energy

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

...renewable energy consumption is immense, according to the experience of residential users. Total Facilities will engage with Australia's facilities managers and will showcase the widest range of faci...

6 Mar 2018

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

...renewables in the energy mix could counteract fossil fuel dependence and achieve the NDCs. Energy transition provides an opportunity for increased cooperation within ASEAN. Since 1997, greater electri...

17 Nov 2017

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

...renewable energy. The world needs an additional $1 trillion per year, on average, investment in clean energy through 2050 to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. Financial ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

Videos / Energy

How lakes can generate electricity

...renewable energy technologies face many technical and non-technical challenges,” Sahin said. “A renewable energy technology based on evaporation could nicely complement the existing ones by offering a...

5 Oct 2017

How lakes can generate electricity

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The green lobby’s misdirected anger

...renewables to generate 75% of the world’s electricity needs. These measures will eliminate CO2 emissions, according to the IPCC, but may not be enough. A 1.5°C increase in global temperatures is now a...

30 Oct 2018

The green lobby’s misdirected anger

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