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Six months after Melamchi floods in Nepal, no respite for displaced people

“Don’t take pictures,” shouts Deep Bahadur Jyoti. Jyoti is a resident of Ganise, a village on the left bank of the Melamchi River about 40 kilometres northeast of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. The rivers...

9 Dec 2021

Six months after Melamchi floods in Nepal, no respite for displaced people

News / Energy

Pakistan pushes renewables—but coal expansion continues too

Pakistan this week set in motion a plan to boost the share of its electric power that comes from renewables to 30 per cent by 2030, up from about 4 per cent today, government officials said. "The targ...

12 Aug 2020

Pakistan pushes renewables—but coal expansion continues too

Masayo Hada (centre) at Eco Action Day in 2017

News / Manufacturing

Masayo Hada leaves Ricoh after 14 years for Mondelez sustainability role

...carbon emissions cut by 2025, packaging recyclability by 2025, and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification of all the palm oil it uses. At Ricoh, Hada's duties have been taken on by Wong Yee ...

23 Jun 2020

Masayo Hada leaves Ricoh after 14 years for Mondelez sustainability role

Ice cores in the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean

News / Carbon & Climate

Earth cooled naturally long before human heating

...carbon to the atmosphere. The rate of natural cooling would be imperceptible in any human lifespan: less than 0.1°C per thousand years. This slow, subtle lowering of the temperature began 4,500 years ...

9 Jul 2020

Earth cooled naturally long before human heating

News / Carbon & Climate

Animals on the brink: why extinctions matter

...carbon value, grasslands are regarded as wastelands, and have been used by the energy-hungry state of Rajastan as sites for wind and solar farms. "We are not against solar and wind, but it's being put...

1 Mar 2022

Animals on the brink: why extinctions matter

News / Food & Agriculture

Planning and planting future forests with climate change in mind

Lumber prices are up more than 500 per cent in some areas, and people are even poaching trees from public forests for home projects, but this late-pandemic surge in lumber demand is a short-term threa...

9 Jun 2021

Planning and planting future forests with climate change in mind

News / Waste

Singapore's recycling rate falls to 10-year low

Singapore's recycling rate has fallen to a 10-year low, with the country's environment agency blaming the Covid-19 pandemic for low waste collection, processing and recycling. The city-state's overall...

23 Apr 2021

Singapore's recycling rate falls to 10-year low

News / Policy & Finance

Covid-19: Can Asean make sustainable recovery a reality?

...carbonisation in their economic stimulus packages, and work towards achieving—at the minimum—a 23 per cent share of renewable energy and 30 per cent energy intensity reduction by 2025, it stated. Memb...

21 Nov 2020

Covid-19: Can Asean make sustainable recovery a reality?

News / Policy & Finance

Societe Generale appoints Yasmine Djeddai as Asia Pacific head of sustainable finance

Societe Generale has appointed Yasmine Djeddai as the French financial services group's first head of sustainable finance for the Asia Pacific region. Djeddai takes on the role after 15 years with the...

20 Oct 2020

Societe Generale appoints Yasmine Djeddai as Asia Pacific head of sustainable finance

Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore

News / Manufacturing

Playing it cool on climate: Cooling tech firms are not innovating or promoting energy-efficient products, report finds

Global energy demand from cooling technologies is expected to triple by 2050, but the companies that make air-conditioners and refrigerators are not innovating to rein in the sector's monster carbon f...

8 Jun 2020

Playing it cool on climate: Cooling tech firms are not innovating or promoting energy-efficient products, report finds

News / Policy & Finance

South Korean utility Kepco moves away from coal

...carbon emission regulations take hold and clean energy costs continue to drop. Investors that have challenged the utility include APG, Legal & General Investment Management, the Church Commissione...

16 Oct 2020

South Korean utility Kepco moves away from coal

News / Policy & Finance

ADB announces coal exit in draft energy policy

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will cease financing new coal-fired power stations, it announced through its draft energy policy on Friday (7 May). The multi-lateral lender's new policy stated that ...

7 May 2021

ADB announces coal exit in draft energy policy

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Cheap oil is a trap

...carbonised solutions, especially in the transport sector. On average, each additional dollar per barrel of conventional oil corresponds to an implicit carbon tax of $2 per ton of carbon dioxide. This ...

5 May 2020

Cheap oil is a trap

News / Corporate Responsibility

Singapore law firm launches sustainability practice

Singapore law firm Rajah & Tann has launched a new sustainability practice to advise local and regional clients on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. The full-service law firm is ...

6 Jan 2021

Singapore law firm launches sustainability practice

News / Energy

Asian banks are the biggest backers of the coal industry—and their support for the dirtiest fossil fuel is growing

Asian financial institutions are the world's biggest funders and insurers of the coal industry, and have increased their support for the sector over the last few years, a report from civic society gro...

1 Mar 2021

Asian banks are the biggest backers of the coal industry—and their support for the dirtiest fossil fuel is growing

News / Policy & Finance

Deutsche Bank hires Kalpana Seethepalli to grow Asia Pacific ESG team

Deutsche Bank has expanded its new Asia Pacific environmental, social and governence (ESG) team with the appointment of Kalpana Seethepalli. Seethepalli joins as APAC director of ESG — a newly created...

27 Oct 2020

Deutsche Bank hires Kalpana Seethepalli to grow Asia Pacific ESG team

Research / Eden Strategy Institute, LLP

Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

...carbon neutrality, Microsoft just announced that it will become carbon negative by around 2030, and remove all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975. Companies such as Autodesk...

18 Feb 2020

Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

News / Energy

Nuclear industry’s propaganda war rages on

To maintain the assertion that it is still a key part of the struggle to limit the climate crisis, the global nuclear industry’s propaganda war is unremitting in its attempt to avoid oblivion in the w...

4 Jun 2021

Nuclear industry’s propaganda war rages on

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

...carbon neutrality. Why go carbon neutral? In theory, a carbon-neutral version of a product or service is better for the environment than its carbon-producing equivalent. For organisations that unders...

13 Jan 2020

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

News / Carbon & Climate

As Singapore suffers bad air, electricity demand shifts up—study

Record air pollution levels in Singapore at the height of the 2015 haze season caused a spike in electricity consumption among households, which in turn increased carbon emissions from the generation ...

20 Aug 2020

As Singapore suffers bad air, electricity demand shifts up—study

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