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Indonesia saw fivefold surge in fires in 2023 triggered by El Niño

Fires razed nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2023, as the country suffered from unusually scorching weather due to El Niño and burning for new planta...

10 Jan 2024

Indonesia saw fivefold surge in fires in 2023 triggered by El Niño

News / Carbon & Climate

With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research

...carbon dioxide a year, compared to just 1.8 tonnes per person in India. If everyone in the world had per-capita emissions equal to those of India - or Africa or most of Latin America - climate change ...

10 Feb 2023

With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Rich polluting nations are hijacking 1.5C goal for their own aims

...carbon budget for a 1.5-degree world, all the while failing to provide the finance and technology developing countries need to have any chance of making just transitions a reality in their own economi...

21 Nov 2022

Rich polluting nations are hijacking 1.5C goal for their own aims

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green development is now the only option

...carbonisation only later. Following the same path that rich countries took will lead to climate havoc. Like everyone else, poor countries need to contribute as much as possible to the global decarboni...

13 Sep 2022

Green development is now the only option

News / Transport

Grab sustainability head Iris Chang: we're growing too fast for a bolder decarbonisation target

...carbon neutral company by 2040. Carbon neutrality can be achieved by buying carbon credits equivalent to the company's emissions, without reducing them. Grab had initially looked into cutting its emis...

17 May 2022

Grab sustainability head Iris Chang: we're growing too fast for a bolder decarbonisation target

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Can the Philippines fulfill its 2024 climate ambitions?

The Philippines ended 2023 on a sustainability high note by securing a seat on a first-ever global fund to help poor countries deal with the adverse impacts of climate change at COP28. The coal-depen...

9 Jan 2024

Can the Philippines fulfill its 2024 climate ambitions?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Ad exec Konstantin Popović launches Singapore sustainability consultancy

...carbon accounting, sustainable finance, environment, social and governance (ESG) reporting, waste auditing and climate anxiety coaching. The launch marks a big career pivot for the Serbian-born execut...

4 Jan 2023

Ad exec Konstantin Popović launches Singapore sustainability consultancy

News / Cities

Bangladesh is losing its battle with air pollution

Mahmuda Khatun has travelled west from her home in Bangladesh’s Narsingdi district to the capital. She is fighting to breathe. The 50-year-old asthma sufferer found herself in Dhaka’s National Institu...

8 Jan 2024

Bangladesh is losing its battle with air pollution

News / Water

Seafood industry calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining

...carbonise the global economy. The International Energy Agency has said that acheiving net-zero emissions will require six times more of certain minerals by 2040 than are being mined today, while seabe...

11 Jul 2023

Seafood industry calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Despite “green” efforts, natural gas and LNG make little climate or economic sense

...carbon credit prices could add US$2.2-3.5 million to this price tag, or roughly US$0.60-0.95/MMBtu. Moreover, voluntary carbon markets—where offsets for carbon-neutral LNG are typically sourced—are gr...

18 Mar 2022

Despite “green” efforts, natural gas and LNG make little climate or economic sense

Research / MioTech

Lego and the toy makers: How sustainability comes to play land

...carbon emissions), social and governance initiatives. We evaluated LEGO's ESG performance by referring to our ESG framework, which covers 18 initiatives of ESG reporting. Overall, we found LEGO take...

14 Oct 2022

Lego and the toy makers: How sustainability comes to play land

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business scores two finalist nods for editorial excellence at annual SOPA awards

Eco-Business has earned two finalist spots in the Society for Publishers of Asia (SOPA) 2023 Awards for its coverage of the controversy surrounding sand extraction in Singapore and the environmental p...

9 May 2023

Eco-Business scores two finalist nods for editorial excellence at annual SOPA awards

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The COP of no return

...carbon-removal technologies, electric transport solutions, and renewable energies. As a result, clean-energy prices continue to fall: almost two-thirds of renewable power added in G20 countries in 202...

11 Oct 2022

The COP of no return

News / Policy & Finance

What is 'nature positive'? Biodiversity's answer to net zero

...carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade, but the capacity of the world's forests, oceans and other ecosystems to do this is weakening, according to a newly-released WWF report. What does 'na...

18 Nov 2022

What is 'nature positive'? Biodiversity's answer to net zero

News / Energy

Air conditioner curbs add to heat deaths—but renewables can help

...carbon future power to run air conditioners, was especially crucial in already hot countries like India, to keep people safe as heatwaves worsen. "Poor countries should think about this question befor...

7 Feb 2023

Air conditioner curbs add to heat deaths—but renewables can help

News / Carbon & Climate

Quick green gains unlikely, but Singapore’s carbon tax hike lays the right foundations: observers

...carbon services group Science Based Targets Initiative made, for firms to use offsets for only 5-10 per cent of emissions in their decarbonisation plans. The lack of firm regulation in voluntary carbo...

22 Feb 2022

Quick green gains unlikely, but Singapore’s carbon tax hike lays the right foundations: observers

A coal-fired power station at Lamma Island, Hong Kong, China.

News / Policy & Finance

Asia's renewable energy investments are not aggressive enough to meet global climate goals

Countries in the world's largest carbon-emitting region are not investing nearly enough in renewable energy to meet global targets for avoiding dangerous planetary heating, according to a new study by...

22 Dec 2022

Asia's renewable energy investments are not aggressive enough to meet global climate goals

Press Releases / IFC

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

Climate projects, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), women and farmers in Asia and the Pacific have benefited from record amounts of funding from IFC. The funds will alleviate po...

5 Sep 2023

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

News / Carbon & Climate

UN report: land degradation now affects half the world’s population and economy

...carbon stocks would rise by a net 17 gigatonnes between 2015 and 2050 due to gains in soil carbon and reduced emissions, while biodiversity declines slow down. If the world moves towards systems that ...

4 May 2022

UN report: land degradation now affects half the world’s population and economy

News / Water

Residents reeling from construction projects in Jammu and Kashmir fear lithium mining

...carbon dioxide emissions, and produce massive mineral waste. According to a 2018 report by Wired, it takes almost 2 million litres of water to produce one tonne of lithium, and lithium mining in the S...

22 May 2023

Residents reeling from construction projects in Jammu and Kashmir fear lithium mining

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