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Opinion / Cities

Globalising compassion amidst Covid-19

...These are acts of sympathy - when you feel the suffering of others or, empathy- when you feel the suffering of others as your own. Today I saw an ordinary couple and their children cooking. Then the m...

1 Apr 2020

Globalising compassion amidst Covid-19

Opinion / Cities

Big data can help cities clean the air their citizens breathe. Here's how.

...the source of emissions before they escape into the atmosphere, safely stores it, and eventually repurposes it to produce value-added chemicals and other mineralisation products for landfills and the ...

3 Sep 2020

Big data can help cities clean the air their citizens breathe. Here's how.

notice about the shortage of Covid-19 vaccine supplies India

News / Policy & Finance

Vaccine lottery: Indian states grapple with how to share Covid-19 jabs

...the state of Chhattisgarh, authorities faced a legal challenge for opting to give top priority to "the poorest of the poor" on the grounds they were the most vulnerable, with limited access to health ...

17 May 2021

Vaccine lottery: Indian states grapple with how to share Covid-19 jabs

News / Energy

Cyclones reduce India’s wind power generation

...thern, western and northern regions. By the end of September 2020, the total installed capacity was 38,124 megawatts (MW), surpassed only by China, the US and Germany. Unlike other parts of the world ...

6 Jan 2021

Cyclones reduce India’s wind power generation

News / Carbon & Climate

Discovery of threatened species pushes bid to protect Vietnam forest

...thern Vietnam, it’s probably the most threatened. It could relatively easily be completely cleared,” Kempinski said. “If there is no effort to preserve the wildlife and the forest there, the wildlife ...

2 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species pushes bid to protect Vietnam forest

Coal being transported on the Yangtze River in China

News / Policy & Finance

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

...the current international economic and political dynamics, the global community must come together to further the global climate agenda by incorporating concrete goals into a green post-pandemic recov...

25 Sep 2020

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say

...when they begin and have only gradually improved. Despite these drawbacks and a number of failed CCS developments in the UK, the British government has just ploughed another £1 billion (US$1.36bn) int...

19 Jan 2021

Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say

News / Transport

US slaps sanctions on China oil giant over South China Sea activity

...ther the large-scale reclamation, construction, or militarisation of disputed outposts in the South China Sea, or the PRC’s use of coercion against Southeast Asian claimants to inhibit their access to...

19 Jan 2021

US slaps sanctions on China oil giant over South China Sea activity

News / Water

One year after the drought: Has Chennai learned from its water crisis?

...their lives when their crops wither and they are unable to pay their lenders. As more families abandon their fields and turn to water trade, they encourage others to follow suit, locking rural communi...

27 Jul 2020

One year after the drought: Has Chennai learned from its water crisis?

News / Green Buildings

Keppel Land CEO Tan Swee Yiow appointed World Green Building Council treasurer

...the board for the World Green Building Council (WGBC). The WGBC is a United Kingdom-headquartered non-profit that promotes sustainability in the built environment around the world, and SGBC is the equ...

1 Jul 2020

Keppel Land CEO Tan Swee Yiow appointed World Green Building Council treasurer

Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon dioxide emissions fall – but by accident

...the slowdown, the researchers were able to make estimates of the CO2 emissions that never happened: by the end of April, these amounted to 1,048 million tonnes of the greenhouse gas, with the largest ...

26 May 2020

Carbon dioxide emissions fall – but by accident

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate constitutionalism

...the US. Indeed, the response to the TVA sowed the seeds of an anti-infrastructure, anti-dam movement that swept the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Without a shared understanding of...

15 Apr 2021

Climate constitutionalism

Opinion / Energy

Power in a pandemic: why energy access matters during coronavirus

...These energy solutions can not only allow people to access the healthcare they need now, but can also be an investment into the clean, sustainable energy infrastructure of the future for these countri...

3 Apr 2020

Power in a pandemic: why energy access matters during coronavirus

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Who should lead the fight for global justice?

...The problem is that the people with the most power to address global problems are often not only the same people who helped to cause them, but also are among the last to be harmed by them. This was th...

12 Mar 2020

Who should lead the fight for global justice?

Tan Szue Hann is, among other roles, chairman of sustainability for Singapore Institute of Architects. He says students need to be aware that "they do have agency in contributing towards environmental sustainability." Image: Tann Szue Hann

News / Green Buildings

How I got here... architect and green building advocate, Tan Szue Hann

...their beliefs. There are plenty of heroes in the sustainability scene—individuals who carve out success from trying to heal, and save, the planet—and they tend to place the interests of the planet and...

5 Apr 2020

How I got here... architect and green building advocate, Tan Szue Hann

News / Policy & Finance

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

...the impacts in the coastal habitats,” Perez said. The PhilSA has presented these analyses to the National Task Force-West Philippines Sea (NTF-WPS), the inter-agency body governing issues related to t...

13 Aug 2021

Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea results to environmental fallout

healthcare workers in Philippines covid-19

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Pandemic policy must be climate policy

...the curve” was the mantra of the early Covid-19 response. To avoid overwhelming health-care systems and buy time to increase their capacity, populations needed to take action to slow the spread of the...

5 Aug 2020

Pandemic policy must be climate policy

A worker makes checks at the Miditech Gloves' rubber glove factory in Malaysia in 2020.

News / Waste

Covid-19 prompts pivot to green alternative to rubber gloves

...the Thomson Reuters Foundation. When the pandemic broke out Meditech Gloves, a recent entrant into the industry, ramped up their production to meet the massive surge in demand for their gloves which u...

26 Nov 2020

Covid-19 prompts pivot to green alternative to rubber gloves

Activists protest against coal-based power plants in Bangladesh

News / Energy

Lack of finance forces Bangladesh to consider shelving coal

...The Third Pole that these are sitting idle for the time being, and that the government might gradually cancel their approval. The main issue, according to the letter, is the inability to finance the c...

20 Oct 2020

Lack of finance forces Bangladesh to consider shelving coal

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

...the Bambara groundnut, a hardy legume with the potential to improve the lives of tropical smallholder farmers. The company will launch its Bambara milk in Singapore, possibly in the second quarter of ...

13 Jan 2021

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

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