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Press Releases / Green Initiatives

One Museum Place partners with Green Initiatives to launch ‘Better Water’ Campaign to reduce plastic waste

One Museum Place, the newly-completed 60-story Premium Grade-A office tower and retail pavilion in Shanghai by US-based developer Hines, has partnered with Green Initiatives (GI) to launch BETTER WATE...

22 Apr 2019

One Museum Place partners with Green Initiatives to launch ‘Better Water’ Campaign to reduce plastic waste

A woman with her baby at a bus stop in Delhi. Women in developing countries are being hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Image: rajput/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

News / Carbon & Climate

How the coronavirus pandemic is changing people and our planet

First celebrated in 1970—the year that American troops invaded Cambodia, a cyclone claimed 500,000 lives in Bangladesh, and The Beatles broke up—today is the fiftieth Earth Day, a day that marked the ...

22 Apr 2020

How the coronavirus pandemic is changing people and our planet

News / Waste

Forty per cent of global e-waste comes from Asia

Humans generated a staggering 44.7 million metric tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2016 — the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers, and five per cent more than the electrical and electronic goods ...

5 Jan 2018

Forty per cent of global e-waste comes from Asia

News / Waste

Electronic waste poses ‘growing risk’ to environment, human health, UN report warns

The growing volume of electronic waste, including discarded products with a battery or plug, such as mobile phones, laptops, televisions, refrigerators and electrical toys, poses a major threat to th...

15 Dec 2017

Electronic waste poses ‘growing risk’ to environment, human health, UN report warns

News / Cities

Solutions for a cleaner, stronger, more sustainable Asia

Air pollution, increased urbanisation, deforestation—these are just some of the major environmental challenges that Southeast Asia currently faces. Though these problems affect rural and urban communi...

4 Jul 2018

Solutions for a cleaner, stronger, more sustainable Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Ireland spurns fossil fuel investments

Other countries talk about it, Ireland is actually doing it: it’s turning its back on fossil fuel investments. In recent days members of the Dáil, the main law-making body in the Irish parliament, hav...

26 Jul 2018

Ireland spurns fossil fuel investments

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

The world was not kind to the environment over the past decade, the warmest in recorded history. Superstorm Sandy caused more than $70 billion of damages in the United States. Cities like Cape Town, S...

17 Jan 2020

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

News / Policy & Finance

Can we turn Singapore into an urban mine?

Singapore may be a resource-constrained economy, but there are rich resources in the waste we throw away, said Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources, at this year’...

11 Jun 2018

Can we turn Singapore into an urban mine?

Children play with informal waste pickers in Myanmar

News / Lifestyle

7 eco-friendly ways to stir the senses this Earth Day

With just a decade to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions before the weather starts going seriously crazy, it is tempting to shut out reality and go live in a cave. But rather than turn our back...

24 Apr 2019

7 eco-friendly ways to stir the senses this Earth Day

News / Food & Agriculture

Not cheap or cheerful: Singapore hawker centres struggle with new business model

A social enterprise model for some of Singapore's hawker centres has been criticised over high costs and poor management, as the wealthy nation tries to revitalise its popular food stalls. The hawker ...

16 Jan 2019

Not cheap or cheerful: Singapore hawker centres struggle with new business model

Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Environment and Water resources, announcing 2019 as Year Towards Zero Waste on 12 January

Opinion / Waste

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

A few Saturdays ago, in a shopping mall in the east of the island, Singapore's Minister of Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) declared 2019 the Year Towards Zero Waste. The aim for the year ahead ...

29 Jan 2019

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

Press Releases / Green Is The New Black

Vegan, almost zero waste & carbon neutral: the Conscious Festival powered by Holland & Barrett is back for its 5th edition

Powered by Holland & Barrett, The Conscious Festival by Green Is The New Black is returning to The Lion City on 2 - 3 November 2019. The fifth edition will take place at South Beach, a sprawling e...

9 Oct 2019

Vegan, almost zero waste & carbon neutral: the Conscious Festival powered by Holland & Barrett is back for its 5th edition

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The energy transformation is not happening fast enough

Energy powers our modern lives. It is also the major cause of global warming. Over 70 per cent of the gases that trap the heat in our atmosphere are caused by the burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil an...

9 Oct 2019

The energy transformation is not happening fast enough

Press Releases / IUCN

Six years of conservation progress in Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot

More than 100 conservation and development practitioners attended the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Phase II Final Assessment Workshop, held from 28 to 30 May in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Part...

4 Jun 2019

Six years of conservation progress in Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot

canada trash protests outside embassy in the philippines

News / Waste

The Philippines is not a garbage dump for rich nations, environmentalists warn

Unnacceptable, reprehensible and deplorable. This was how Greenpeace activists described the shipment of 211 tonnes of waste from Australia that arrived in the Philippines on 7 May. “Why do we need to...

29 May 2019

The Philippines is not a garbage dump for rich nations, environmentalists warn

News / Carbon & Climate

How is global media reporting on the climate crisis?

Climate change is a crisis that crosses borders, but until recently the global media has struggled to effectively report on a phenomenon that touches virtually every corner of the world. However, desp...

3 Sep 2019

How is global media reporting on the climate crisis?

Research / Eco-Business

Industry Innovation in the Year of Climate Action - Eco Action Day Roundtable

As Asia pursues industrial growth, the world's fastest growing region is struggling to balance development with sustainable resource use, and ensuring that prosperity is fairly shared. Balancing the ...

11 Jul 2018

Industry Innovation in the Year of Climate Action - Eco Action Day Roundtable

News / Carbon & Climate

In a warming world, deadly bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics

Tom Patterson became ill in 2015 while vacationing in Egypt. He was felled by Acinetobacter baumannii, an often deadly bacterium resistant to every antibiotic his doctors tried. Patterson, a Universit...

19 Jun 2018

In a warming world, deadly bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics

News / Food & Agriculture

Bangladesh’s polluting fish farms

On a Monday evening, Delowar Jahan’s modest shop was overflowing with fresh produce that arrived early in the day. In a middle-class Dhaka neighbourhood, this tiny outlet of a farmers’ collective does...

26 Jul 2019

Bangladesh’s polluting fish farms

News / Food & Agriculture

How apps, AI and solar-powered cold rooms are driving sustainable agriculture

When Prateek Singhal and two friends devised a solar pump to help Indian farmers tap water from wells to irrigate their crops, they were ecstatic. But they soon noticed that the growth in farmers’ in...

13 Aug 2019

How apps, AI and solar-powered cold rooms are driving sustainable agriculture

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