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Why India must account for climate adaptation in its budget

India has inexplicably dithered from making dedicated provisions for climate adaptation in its annual budgets, despite facing the brunt of climate change – it was listed as the seventh most vulnerable...

31 Jan 2023

Why India must account for climate adaptation in its budget

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

Farmer Ganpatram Bheda, 66, fears he will lose his two acres of land in northwest India after scarce rainfall and extreme cold in recent years hit crop yields, trapping him in a web of loans with lit...

15 May 2023

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

"No to coal in Asia": 350.org protesters in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore's central bank proposes engagement, over divestment, for decarbonising finance firms

Singapore's central bank and regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said finance institutions should engage with carbon-intensive entities, rather than resort to "indiscriminate divestmen...

30 Oct 2023

Singapore's central bank proposes engagement, over divestment, for decarbonising finance firms

News / Food & Agriculture

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan threatens major food crisis

For nearly 30 years, Mullah Khan Mohammad has worked his family’s land in Surkh Kotal – near the great archaeological site of the same name – in Baghlan province. Baghlan, in northern Afghanistan, is ...

28 Jun 2023

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan threatens major food crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

Will EU deforestation law save trees or marginalise poor palm oil farmers?

Officials from Indonesia and Malaysia are currently locked in heated talks with their counterparts from the European Union (EU) over a law designed to stop deforestation-linked products from entering ...

27 Jun 2023

Will EU deforestation law save trees or marginalise poor palm oil farmers?

Press Releases / Mediacorp

Catch the CNA Green Plan Challenge to find out more about sustainable practices!

Catch Mediacorp’s brand new infotainment series: the CNA Green Plan Challenge, and learn how we can all play a part in securing a sustainable future for Singapore! Premiering 4 April on CNA and ...

1 Apr 2022

Catch the CNA Green Plan Challenge to find out more about sustainable practices!

News / Cities

Inflation is triggering chaos worldwide, where are the hotspots?

The protests over Sri Lanka's economic crisis that brought down the government could be the first of many, analysts warn, as unrest over spiralling inflation grows across the world. According to the U...

25 Jul 2022

Inflation is triggering chaos worldwide, where are the hotspots?

News / Water

Why did drought-hit communities vote against Chile’s ‘ecological’ constitution?

The valleys of Petorca province in central Chile are currently filled with green shoots. Soon, yellow flowers will grow all around and line the road that links the town of the same name with others be...

4 Oct 2022

Why did drought-hit communities vote against Chile’s ‘ecological’ constitution?

News / Waste

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

Fast fashion is fast in more ways than one. The rate of production is fast; the customer’s decision to purchase is fast; product delivery is fast; and the rate of disposal of garments is fast – items...

30 May 2023

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

Opinion / Water

Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. ...

22 Dec 2022

Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

News / Energy

India has big clean energy goals – so why is it banking on coal?

As scientists and activists urge rapid cuts in the use of climate-heating coal for power production around the world, new projections from India show that coal will remain its biggest source of elect...

29 May 2023

India has big clean energy goals – so why is it banking on coal?

Press Releases / International Institute for Sustainable Development

Sustainable cotton sector continues to grow, bring farmers higher incomes

Consumers and companies across the planet are increasingly choosing cotton produced in accordance with voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) such as Better Cotton or Cotton made in Afric...

16 Jan 2023

Sustainable cotton sector continues to grow, bring farmers higher incomes

News / Carbon & Climate

Is the world making real progress towards net zero emissions?

About three-quarters of countries have now set the net-zero emissions targets that scientists say must be met by mid-century to keep global warming to agreed limits. But putting them into practice is...

15 Jun 2023

Is the world making real progress towards net zero emissions?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate adaptation must be transformational, not just fighting fires

There was significant progress on finance for climate adaptation at COP27 last month. Governments agreed to move forward on the Global Goal on Adaptation established in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which...

15 Dec 2022

Climate adaptation must be transformational, not just fighting fires

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

Although the market has swooned from its all-time-high of US$2.9 trillion at the end of 2021, cryptocurrency is now worth US$1.1 trillion – five times the size of the gaming market. Virtual currency's...

18 May 2023

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

News / Policy & Finance

'Auction' of islands in Indonesian marine sanctuary blocked

Indonesian authorities have cracked down on a private developer’s bid to carve out foreign tourism enclaves within a marine reserve in the country’s eastern Widi Islands. The country’s deputy environm...

8 Dec 2022

'Auction' of islands in Indonesian marine sanctuary blocked

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

What do the following brands have in common? HP. Fonterra. Canon. Temasek. Lombard Odier. Interface. Nissan. Allianz. Microsoft. Nestlé. DuPont. Bridgestone. Saab. Marina Bay Sands. Sinar Mas. Samsun...

1 Feb 2023

Brands, please stop saying 'sustainability is in our DNA'

News / Policy & Finance

Asia investors expect more political pressure against ESG investing in the future: Survey

More than half of Asia Pacific (APAC) and North American investors surveyed by Netherlands-based asset manager Robeco are expecting more political pressure against environment, social and governance (...

23 Mar 2023

Asia investors expect more political pressure against ESG investing in the future: Survey

News / Green Buildings

David Fogarty to lead CBRE's Southeast Asia sustainability team

Real estate services firm CBRE has appointed David Fogarty to run its Southeast Asia sustainability consulting team. Fogarty is moving from London to Singapore to take on the position of senior execut...

4 May 2022

David Fogarty to lead CBRE's Southeast Asia sustainability team

News / Energy

Singapore firms want more Australian solar power than can be delivered: project exec

A plan to send solar power produced in Northern Australia via 4,200 kilometres of undersea cables to Singapore has been oversubscribed by about 50 per cent, based on a gauge of interest by the develop...

26 Oct 2022

Singapore firms want more Australian solar power than can be delivered: project exec

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