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In bittersweet move, Vietnam approves second feed-in-tariff scheme for solar

...when the existing grid could not accommodate all the electricity they produced,” he said. However, while significant progress has been made in strengthening the grid, the government overruled the orig...

7 Apr 2020

In bittersweet move, Vietnam approves second feed-in-tariff scheme for solar

News / Carbon & Climate

In East Asian first, South Korea announces ambitions to reach net zero by 2050

...the nation to adopt a Green New Deal and deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. If the plan goes through, the country—the world’s seventh-largest emitter—will be the first in East Asia to set a ti...

17 Mar 2020

In East Asian first, South Korea announces ambitions to reach net zero by 2050

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

...the trust they had in the partner NGO influenced their decision to buy WII. The publication of rainfall data in local newspapers, which confirmed the veracity of the weather index underpinning the ins...

14 May 2020

Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable

News / Energy

The elephant in the room: Can the solar industry go circular?

...the course of a quarter-century, there is still potential to deploy them in regions starved of electricity supply, where they can be used for another 10 to 20 years. This extension of their useful liv...

9 Mar 2020

The elephant in the room: Can the solar industry go circular?

News / Policy & Finance

People who changed our world in 2020

When Covid-19 began spreading around the world early this year, even the most far-sighted experts could not have predicted the range of impacts the virus would have. Amid the cloud of uncertainty and ...

17 Dec 2020

People who changed our world in 2020

Claire Sancelot, the founder of The Hive Bulk Foods

News / Corporate Responsibility

'In the DNA': How social entrepreneurs are getting creative in pandemic

...the sector's trade body in Britain, and held annually on the third Thursday of November, the day aims to highlight the sector's global impact. The campaign has since expanded to other parts of the wor...

20 Nov 2020

'In the DNA': How social entrepreneurs are getting creative in pandemic

News / Carbon & Climate

How Asia’s megacities can benefit from mangroves and other natural climate solutions

...the best outcomes and greatest return on investment? As the man tasked to set up the new Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions at the National University of Singapore (NUS), these are some of the ...

3 Apr 2020

How Asia’s megacities can benefit from mangroves and other natural climate solutions

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

...the focus is on the number of new trees that end up in the ground, not on planting the right trees in the right places or caring for them after planting to ensure they survive. While mitigating climat...

14 May 2021

Explainer: Is tree planting as good for the Earth as we believe?

News / Water

Parched lives on the fringe: How water scarcity has widened inequality in Chennai

...theastern coastal cities, prepares to leave. Hunting for water takes up the better part of Kumari’s days. Before the sun rises, she joins the queue at the hand pump down the road. But even when the wa...

18 Sep 2019

Parched lives on the fringe: How water scarcity has widened inequality in Chennai

Opinion / Energy

Europe and China take the climate reins

...the EU do hit their next major benchmarks, the global implications will be broad and deep. China, the “factory of the world,” was the single largest exporter and the third-largest importer in 2018. By...

17 Nov 2020

Europe and China take the climate reins

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Accessible healthcare could be key to protecting rainforests and solving the climate crisis

...The critical link between the health of their communities and the health of the surrounding forests became obvious during the listening exercises. Their wisdom led to a partnership that improved their...

17 Nov 2020

Accessible healthcare could be key to protecting rainforests and solving the climate crisis

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Leadership in sustainability: Where does Singapore stand?

...the mainstream global agenda. The UN has declared sustainable development – defined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987 as “development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the a...

1 Jul 2020

Leadership in sustainability: Where does Singapore stand?

Simon Lord and Pamela Mar on Sustainability One on One

Videos / Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability One on One: Palm oil proponent Simon Lord in conversation with apparel futurist Pamela Mar

...ther about the challenges they face in doing their jobs. The first episode features a conversation between Dr Simon Lord, the chief sustainability officer of Malaysian palm oil company Sime Darby Plan...

12 Feb 2020

Sustainability One on One: Palm oil proponent Simon Lord in conversation with apparel futurist Pamela Mar

Workers on a scaffolding on a construction site in Singapore

News / Green Buildings

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

...the exhaust from flues during the manufacturing process and feeds it back into the concrete. It sequesters the carbon, strengthens the concrete, and shortens the curing time. If embodied carbon emissi...

7 Jan 2020

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

News / Carbon & Climate

When people turn to nature to solve human problems, sometimes nature benefits, too

...the sight, sound and even smell of the bees and their hives. Farmers and conservation organisations such as Save the Elephants have installed hives along key fence lines. But the bees’ food and wat...

20 Aug 2020

When people turn to nature to solve human problems, sometimes nature benefits, too

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How do we convince climate change deniers? That's the wrong question.

...the latter two groups rather than trying to convince the 18 per cent who fall in the “doubtful” and “dismissive” categories that they’re wrong. So, what should you do when your uncle calls climate cha...

21 Nov 2019

How do we convince climate change deniers? That's the wrong question.

Myanmar’s environmental record was weak but improving. Then came the coup

News / Cities

Myanmar coup worsens the country's broken EIA system

...the military. R.G. said even China may hesitate to engage with the military, given the possibility that the NLD could return to power. “If they betray the NLD and the Myanmar community then all their ...

19 Mar 2021

Myanmar coup worsens the country's broken EIA system

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The recovery needs development aid

...the United States as the country with the highest total of Covid-19 cases, and Latin America has experienced the most deaths of any region of the world. The World Bank warns that the pandemic could pu...

16 Oct 2020

The recovery needs development aid

Jali, founder of transport cooperative Parung Jaya Cooperative, speaks to one of his drivers

Videos / Corporate Responsibility

Keep on trucking: Building a solid supply chain for palm oil

...the many transportation workers that form the backbone of the industry, but who face a host of issues from unsafe working conditions to late payment of wages. Since 2007, the co-operative has been wo...

7 Jan 2020

Keep on trucking: Building a solid supply chain for palm oil

Opinion / Cities

Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?

...the Hadley cell. The stronger the gradient, the more heat is exported. Hot in the city There is one additional factor: urbanisation. Singapore is a good place to look at actual climate change in the t...

16 Sep 2020

Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?

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