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News / Green Buildings

Flying Singapore’s flag in the international green building space

...These were the tasks that engineering-trained Lee Chuan Seng found himself facing when he landed in the hot seat as the founding president of SGBC, he recalls. The Building and Construction Authority ...

13 Jun 2019

Flying Singapore’s flag in the international green building space

News / Policy & Finance

Advisors propose new system to regulate China’s overseas investments

...The creators believe the two-step classification will better equip the system to respond to complex situations on the ground in most countries along the Belt and Road. “The idea is to make the system ...

8 Dec 2020

Advisors propose new system to regulate China’s overseas investments

News / Carbon & Climate

Flood prevention could bring 'huge' payoff as global risks rise

...the US southeast and east coasts, Otto said. "The numbers are sobering when you look at what the impacts are going to be," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The United States is far from the on...

24 Apr 2020

Flood prevention could bring 'huge' payoff as global risks rise

News / Energy

Could snow be the next source of clean energy?

...the way water molecules order themselves as they crystallise into snowflakes, he said. “We thought, ‘Why not bring another material with the opposite charge to extract these electrons to create electr...

31 May 2019

Could snow be the next source of clean energy?

Minister for National Development, Lawrence Wong, opens the inaugural International Built Environment Week in Singapore in September 2019.

News / Green Buildings

Which comes first for green buildings: technology transformation or cultural change?

...the business in such a way that the entire company, from the top to the bottom, understands exactly what it has set out to achieve. "If the mindset from the top of the organisation doesn't believe dig...

11 Sep 2019

Which comes first for green buildings: technology transformation or cultural change?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why traditional knowledge is the key to sustainable agriculture

...the political economic context is hostile, at best; and the consequences from the violence of the 1980s, when entire villages were razed by the army and paramilitaries in the so-called war against com...

11 Jul 2019

Why traditional knowledge is the key to sustainable agriculture

October 2019. Eco-Business writer Sarah Lin, who was in Hanoi when AirVisual app reported 'hazarous' air quality, suffered a bleeding nose as a result of the haze. Image: Sarah Lin, Eco-Business

News / Carbon & Climate

Air quality app goes dark in Vietnam as hazardous haze hits Hanoi

...the PM2.5 pollution [fine particulate matter that is particularly dangerous to breathe] episode [in Hanoi] during the past week is that the air masses have mainly arrived from the south, from the dire...

7 Oct 2019

Air quality app goes dark in Vietnam as hazardous haze hits Hanoi

Misool eco-resort in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Opinion / Lifestyle

Covid-19: An opportunity or setback for sustainable tourism?

...the resort, the foundation and the community to help them to understand each other’s needs. At first, fishermen did not welcome the idea of a no-take-zone, however, as they started to see the changes ...

31 Aug 2020

Covid-19: An opportunity or setback for sustainable tourism?

News / Policy & Finance

Investors to governments: Build back better, or deal with escalating climate risks

...The Central Depository (CDP), one of the signatories of the statement, said: “Shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world stands at a crossroads. While the current priority is rightly to save human liv...

8 May 2020

Investors to governments: Build back better, or deal with escalating climate risks

News / Policy & Finance

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

...the groups were required to have women as 50 per cent of their members. The other half of the groups had no gender quotas. First, all participants played a round of the game where were they were told ...

9 Apr 2019

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Ego versus eco—is vanity compromising the impact of Asia's sustainability leaders?

...the ‘genuine’ sustainability community sooner or later." Humility might not come naturally to the many people who are entering the sector, other sources suggest. Energy is the perhaps the best example...

17 Mar 2020

Ego versus eco—is vanity compromising the impact of Asia's sustainability leaders?

News / Energy

With their lawsuit against a coal firm in limbo, Bornean villagers take the fight online

...ther the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case. If the court declines, the activists will have exhausted all options for legal action. In the meantime, they are working to take the issue to the co...

6 Nov 2019

With their lawsuit against a coal firm in limbo, Bornean villagers take the fight online

News / Policy & Finance

In slums and windowless apartments, Asia's poor bear brunt of coronavirus

...the end of the month, said Bipin Rai, a member of the Delhi Urban Slum Improvement Board. "The government is closely monitoring the needs of homeless citizens. There will be no evictions for now," he ...

18 Mar 2020

In slums and windowless apartments, Asia's poor bear brunt of coronavirus

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Solutions, not spats like this’: Food innovators' take on plant-based burger brand Lightlife’s campaign against Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat

...the key ingredient in Impossible’s patties that gives them a meaty flavour when cooked, is thoroughly safety-tested and considered safe by the US Food and Drug Administration, they added. Beyond told ...

28 Aug 2020

‘Solutions, not spats like this’: Food innovators' take on plant-based burger brand Lightlife’s campaign against Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s new rice cultivation plan will undermine peatland restoration efforts

...the name of food security as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to cause food shortages across the country. This plan may repeat an epic past failure in the Mega Rice Project (MRP) in the 1990s. The proj...

5 Jun 2020

Indonesia’s new rice cultivation plan will undermine peatland restoration efforts

News / Policy & Finance

Indian street vendors 'shattered' as coronavirus wrecks trade

...the Thomson Reuters Foundation in New Delhi, only three said they had applied for the loan. Others said they did not plan to apply, citing reasons including red tape or lack of interest in the amount ...

22 Sep 2020

Indian street vendors 'shattered' as coronavirus wrecks trade

News / Water

As rains fall short, Manila trickles into a water crisis

...The crisis in Manila hit in early March when the water level at a secondary city source, the La Mesa reserve, fell below the aqueducts that allow it to flow to the city. When news of shortages spread,...

21 May 2019

As rains fall short, Manila trickles into a water crisis

Panelists at the 2019 Asian Sustainability Reporting Summit

News / Policy & Finance

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

...their performance with their peers. Mohin countered that GRI is used by 75 per cent of the world’s largest companies and 80 per cent of big firms in Southeast Asia, where the non-profit opened a Singa...

6 Sep 2019

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

Asia school closures for coronavirus expose digital divide

...the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, education charities say they are worried about girls dropping out. Nearly a fourth of the country's girls leave school before puberty, with the result that the ...

16 Mar 2020

Asia school closures for coronavirus expose digital divide

News / Energy

Vietnam considers scrapping half of coal power plant pipeline in favour of gas and renewables

...the most ambitious in Southeast Asia, with consumption of the fossil fuel—the single biggest contributor to man-made climate change—tripling over the past decade. Beyond the nation's power sector, the...

28 Jul 2020

Vietnam considers scrapping half of coal power plant pipeline in favour of gas and renewables

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