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Could solar energy sharing between Australia and Singapore be a model for other regions?

...the regional level, the project will kickstart the clean energy industry in the Northern Territory, the state with one of the lowest uptakes of renewables development in Australia, said Dixon. The pro...

24 Jul 2019

Could solar energy sharing between Australia and Singapore be a model for other regions?

News / Energy

Not so fast on fracking, UN agency tells developing countries

...the ups and downs of commodity price changes. “In the US sometimes when the prices go down they stop fracking, when the prices increase the investments are there, so investors will come and do it, so ...

25 May 2018

Not so fast on fracking, UN agency tells developing countries

Singapore's 'City in a Garden' plan has seen a network of parks, nature reserves and greened buildings span the 70 kilometre-squared island—but the country has just 0.5 per cent primary forest cover left. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

...the wildlife they share the city with. "When people go to the park, they take pictures of butterflies. They don’t run away when they see a monitor lizard anymore," he says. Wildlife in urban areas is ...

19 Sep 2018

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

News / Waste

We know the wrong way to deal with e-waste. But what should we do instead?

...the metals in the waste stream are chemically separated. The plastic casings go into the smelter, where they are burned to provide most of the fuel for the facility. “Over 95 per cent of the feed is t...

23 Aug 2018

We know the wrong way to deal with e-waste. But what should we do instead?

News / Energy

Can palm oil enter the circular economy?

...the most substantive outcome of the workshop was the lack of clarity between the parties. Currently, the price of energy produced by the biomass plant and sold to the grid has not been defined: the el...

15 Aug 2019

Can palm oil enter the circular economy?

Experts from industry and civil society discuss the role of women in advancing the climate agenda in a panel titled 'Tackling Climate Change: Designing ASEAN's sustainable future.' Image: Women's Forum / Sipa Press

News / Carbon & Climate

Women's voices key to carving a sustainable future

...the areas of STEM in Asia than in other parts of the world, with only 22.9 per cent in East Asia and the Pacific and even lower in South and West Asia. The Philippines performs best in the region when...

19 Sep 2018

Women's voices key to carving a sustainable future

News / Food & Agriculture

The grapes of trash

...when phenolic compounds from pomace are added to such popular high-fat foods as mayonnaise and salad dressing. They found that the compounds significantly curbed lipid oxidation, and extended the shel...

20 Mar 2018

The grapes of trash

News / Policy & Finance

Uneven progress on climate action at Bangkok conference

...the globe. Work on preparing the guidelines has been ongoing since 2016, the year after the Paris Agreement was signed by practically every country in the world. The guidelines are due to be adopted a...

10 Sep 2018

Uneven progress on climate action at Bangkok conference

News / Carbon & Climate

World can ‘safely’ store billions of tonnes of CO2 underground

...the charts, the black lines show the total CO2 injected, the grey lines show the when the injection ceases, the red shading shows the proportion of CO2 that is leaked, the blue lines show the proporti...

13 Jun 2018

World can ‘safely’ store billions of tonnes of CO2 underground

Gateway to palm oil plantation Riau Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

...the end of this year, and there’s no other source of funding in sight to fill the gap. Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen, the Danish ambassador to Indonesia, says the decision to end the funding has nothin...

12 Nov 2018

End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s cities face sobering cooling costs

...the average demand. For the same shift in the thermometer reading, peak electricity demand in the Yangtze Valley delta could go up by 36 per cent. And the global average rise of 1°C so far during the ...

3 Jan 2019

China’s cities face sobering cooling costs

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

5 reasons why China is the world's sustainable development superpower

...the scale of the project to date, and the number of members from developing and developed nations alike in support of the BRI, there is a convincing argument for helping the poorer nations move up the...

29 May 2019

5 reasons why China is the world's sustainable development superpower

Singapore: a greened vision of the future that is not just about liveability, but a more sustainable financial ecosystem, says Steven Stone. Image: Pexels

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Mean, lean and green: Finding a new path for sustainable finance

...the plastic waste was simply becoming a liability. Which has now spilled over into the rest of Asia and probably the rest of the world. A minister from Malaysia said at the meeting that in the year 20...

3 Feb 2019

Mean, lean and green: Finding a new path for sustainable finance

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why investing in women and girls will take off in 2019

...the labor force—over and above the benefit resulting from simply adding more workers regardless of whether they are male or female. The IFC and IMF studies also reflect growing interest in impact inve...

6 Mar 2019

Why investing in women and girls will take off in 2019

News / Policy & Finance

Environmental issues among top priorities of urban Indian voters

...the voters in the survey, and the category ranked 17th in the list of 31 governance-related priorities. However, the issue of water and air pollution did feature in the top 10 priorities of surveyed v...

4 Apr 2019

Environmental issues among top priorities of urban Indian voters

News / Lifestyle

Save together or crash together: Why conserving every animal species counts

...them. That is why it is so important that we get people to understand that when they buy illegal wildlife products, they are not only wasting their money but also driving these species to extinction. ...

21 Feb 2018

Save together or crash together: Why conserving every animal species counts

Videos / Lifestyle

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

...the themes Live, Work, Consume and Travel. Stephanie Dickson, co-founder of GITNB, said ahead of the Consume panel that this year's festival had come a long way from the first edition, when single-use...

9 Nov 2018

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

News / Energy

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

...the missing link in the renewable energy revolution by storing energy from when it is produced—when the wind blows or the sun shines—to when it is needed on a still day or at night,” says Simon Hacket...

23 Apr 2018

How to unlock renewables? Cheaper, cleaner, better batteries

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Air pollution may be affecting how happy you are

...the microblog platform Sina Weibo (a Chinese equivalent to Twitter). Given they knew where these tweets had been sent from, and how happy or sad they were, the researchers were then able to match the ...

2 Feb 2019

Air pollution may be affecting how happy you are

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

In memory of Kofi Annan: Father of the modern corporate sustainability movement

...The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take. History teaches us that such an imbalance between the ec...

24 Aug 2018

In memory of Kofi Annan: Father of the modern corporate sustainability movement

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