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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

News / Corporate Responsibility

Sustainable business certifier B Corp is launching in Southeast Asia

B Lab, a United States-headquartered certification non-profit, is setting up shop in Southeast Asia with a mission to grow a community of B Corporations, or B Corps, and advance stakeholder capitalism...

2 Jun 2021

Sustainable business certifier B Corp is launching in Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

How will BP achieve its net zero ambition?

...Carbon Tracker What's the best path to decarbonisation? Looney said that BP would “very likely” be producing and refining hydrocarbons in 2050. Although the company will increasingly invest in low-c...

19 Feb 2020

How will BP achieve its net zero ambition?

Unilever has ramped up soap production in Africa to address shortages of hygiene products

News / Corporate Responsibility

The fear that Covid would kill corporate sustainability was overblown, study finds

When the Covid-19 pandemic started to squeeze the global economy in 2020, sustainability experts around the world feared that companies would deprioritise sustainability programmes — but that view has...

29 Jul 2021

The fear that Covid would kill corporate sustainability was overblown, study finds

Opinion / Energy

A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream

...carbonising the global economy. Except it isn’t. Economics have long conspired against the industry as it built ever larger and more complex reactors. From China to the United States, projects have ru...

12 Mar 2021

A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream

Workers on a scaffolding on a construction site in Singapore

News / Green Buildings

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

...carbon emissions and 11 per cent of all carbon emissions globally. And, between now and 2050, embodied carbon will be responsible for half of the entire carbon footprint of new construction, threateni...

7 Jan 2020

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore

Videos / Energy

Energy efficiency: Southeast Asia's decarbonisation quick fix?

...carbon emissions are projected to grow by two-thirds by 2040. While the tropical sub-region has been rapidly adding renewable energy capacity to help curb its emissions growth, there is a faster and c...

12 Jun 2020

Energy efficiency: Southeast Asia's decarbonisation quick fix?

Martyn Tickner, Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Image: supplied

News / Waste

From plastic producer to pollution fighter: Martyn Tickner on the dilemma facing the war on waste

...carbon emissions? Cardboard, glass, metal and most bio-plastics also have a higher carbon footprint than plastic. There are no solutions that fit all the right criteria of being environmentally and so...

20 May 2020

From plastic producer to pollution fighter: Martyn Tickner on the dilemma facing the war on waste

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

New frontiers in climate-risk analytics

In recent years, record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events have highlighted the overwhelming impact of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions on the global climate. Moreover, the costs of such ...

28 Jun 2021

New frontiers in climate-risk analytics

News / Carbon & Climate

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

...carbon dioxide emissions, neglecting other greenhouse gases such as hydrofluorocarbons from air-conditioners, Low said. Hydrofluorocarbons trap thousands of times as much heat in the atmosphere as car...

19 Feb 2020

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

News / Policy & Finance

China’s plans for gigantic Brahmaputra dam strains relations with India further

...carbon emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 and would bring money and development to the Tibet Autonomous Region. World’s largest dam The development of nearly 60 million kilowatts [60 ...

8 Dec 2020

China’s plans for gigantic Brahmaputra dam strains relations with India further

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solutions

Blue Planet receives investment of US$10 million from Sysma Holdings

...carbon emissions, and creating meaningful employment in local communities. Currently, Blue Planet has more than fifty decentralized organic waste management units and five plastic waste processing un...

18 Nov 2020

Blue Planet receives investment of US$10 million from Sysma Holdings

News / Carbon & Climate

Study fails to establish link between increased deforestation and Covid crisis

When the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, and national governments responded with lockdowns of varying degrees, conservationists warned it would lead to a surge in illegal logging in tropical countries...

15 Sep 2021

Study fails to establish link between increased deforestation and Covid crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

Sarun Nong, a fisher on Koh Krabey, a small island in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, takes another look at the fishing net in front of him. It contains only small fish, and too few of them to make ends me...

25 Nov 2021

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

News / Carbon & Climate

Dutch bank ING draws complaint for financing controversial Indonesian coal plants

...carbon emissions globally — by 2030, with the rest of the world following by 2040.

28 Apr 2021

Dutch bank ING draws complaint for financing controversial Indonesian coal plants

News / Policy & Finance

Duterte tells UN: Fight climate change with the same urgency as Covid-19

The same urgency in fighting the coronavirus pandemic is needed to tackle climate change, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (23 September). Spe...

25 Sep 2020

Duterte tells UN: Fight climate change with the same urgency as Covid-19

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Three ways to tell if corporations are genuine about fighting climate change

...carbon emissions by 2050 — while continuing to produce carbon-emitting fuels. Image: Cenovus Energy Inc. “Anytime someone says ‘carbon neutral,’ how hard do they work before they trigger the final t...

3 Mar 2020

Three ways to tell if corporations are genuine about fighting climate change

News / Energy

Companies race to net zero

...carbon offsetting can be a cop-out. “ We hope that this discussion will help corporations seek viable ways to reduce their carbon emissions and switch to renewables, and that the insights gained will...

22 Apr 2020

Companies race to net zero

Opinion / Energy

How to replace coal power with renewables in developing countries

...carbon emissions. Health costs and climate maths Coal-fired power generation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases and a major contributor to air pollution. Annually, 200,000-550,000 deat...

5 Jun 2020

How to replace coal power with renewables in developing countries

Women sift sand, hunting for tiny plastic pellets and other debris still washing ashore since the sinking of the X-Press Pearl, a vessel containing chemicals and plastics, in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka

News / Transport

Sri Lankan communities count the cost of devastating chemicals and plastics spill

On a beach in Sri Lanka’s western coast on 7 February, a band of women painstakingly sift sand in the pelting sun, hunting for tiny plastic pellets and other debris still washing ashore since the X-Pr...

14 Feb 2022

Sri Lankan communities count the cost of devastating chemicals and plastics spill

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