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COP27: 5 ways cities can implement solutions towards their net-zero targets

By 2050, almost 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to United Nations data. However, urban areas are also responsible for over 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emi...

18 Nov 2022

COP27: 5 ways cities can implement solutions towards their net-zero targets

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EB Impact unveils new sustainability media academy for Asian journalists

With blistering heatwaves and catastrophic typhoons becoming more frequent than ever in Asia, there is growing demand for information about climate change from the world’s most natural disaster-prone ...

22 Apr 2022

EB Impact unveils new sustainability media academy for Asian journalists

News / Policy & Finance

Grassroots groups tackle human-wildlife conflict across India-Nepal border

Five years ago, Shankar Luitel, a farmer who lives in Bahundangi village in Jhapa district, in the south-east corner of Nepal, used to spend several days every month at local forest department offices...

25 May 2023

Grassroots groups tackle human-wildlife conflict across India-Nepal border

News / Energy

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

Farmer Shiv Lal barely slept this week, overcome by worry about the deep cracks scarring his land and hundreds of other homes and buildings in a sinking town in India's Himalayas. On Jan. 2 and 3, La...

17 Jan 2023

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

Rainforest in Papua province, Indonesia.

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Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

An eight-year effort by Indonesia to protect its remaining forests contributed just 4 per cent of its emissions reduction target, yet still yielded carbon savings worth far more than it was paid under...

17 Mar 2022

Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

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22 brands called out for greenwashing in 2023

2023 was the year that policymakers in Asia Pacific took cues from regulators in the West and made tentative steps to police greenwashing. South Korea became the first Asian country to fine companies ...

19 Dec 2023

22 brands called out for greenwashing in 2023

Desmond Tan speaking at Sustainability Exchange season 2

News / Carbon & Climate

Don’t neglect climate change amid high cost of living: Singapore environment official

Singapore cannot forsake its “long-term interest” in fighting climate change just because the cost of living is rising today, said a politician in the country’s environment office. Youths will need to...

30 May 2022

Don’t neglect climate change amid high cost of living: Singapore environment official

News / Carbon & Climate

Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming

Even if the world is successful in meeting its most ambitious climate goal of 1.5C, glaciers could lose a quarter of their total mass by 2100 – raising global sea levels by 90mm. The world is not curr...

12 Jan 2023

Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia's fishing industry faces downturn amid push for higher productivity

Indonesia’s fish stock has declined in the past five years as more of the country’s waters are now fully exploited, according to new government data. The latest data released by the fisheries ministry...

26 Apr 2022

Indonesia's fishing industry faces downturn amid push for higher productivity

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore’s UOB to stop backing new upstream oil and gas projects, sets 2050 net-zero targets for polluting sectors

Southeast Asia’s third largest lender United Overseas Bank (UOB) laid out its interim and 2050 decarbonisation targets for six top polluting sectors on Monday. Among its wider commitments, it pledged ...

31 Oct 2022

Singapore’s UOB to stop backing new upstream oil and gas projects, sets 2050 net-zero targets for polluting sectors

News / Lifestyle

Does individual climate action matter?

“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” “Go straw-free.” “We all have a part to play.” As climate change looms large as a global emergency, we’ve heard these refrains over and over again. But do these individual ac...

7 Sep 2022

Does individual climate action matter?

Press Releases / S&P Global Platts

S&P Global Platts launches first carbon neutral hydrogen assessments

S&P Global Platts (Platts), the leading independent provider of information, analytics and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, has launched the world’s first suite of Ca...

10 Dec 2021

S&P Global Platts launches first carbon neutral hydrogen assessments

News / Transport

Price and performance are slowing EV adoption in Southeast Asia: Grab sustainability chief

The head of sustainability for ride-hailing giant Grab has said that electric vehicles (EVs) are "nowhere close" to the affordability and performance of petrol-powered vehicles in Southeast Asia, as t...

9 Jun 2022

Price and performance are slowing EV adoption in Southeast Asia: Grab sustainability chief

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Asean and Japan at 50 years: Shaping a sustainable society for the future

In 1967, when Southeast Asian nations came together to form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Japan was the first country in the world to build official ties with the regional bloc a...

29 Mar 2023

Asean and Japan at 50 years: Shaping a sustainable society for the future

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Indigenous youth leaders seek inclusion at global strike

The 2022 Fridays for Future (FFF) International Meeting held in Turin, Italy, ended today with a climate strike. Among the demands for urgent climate action from young Indigenous leaders are calls f...

5 Aug 2022

Indigenous youth leaders seek inclusion at global strike

News / Cities

Low-cost, low-tech cooling offers hope for Indian slums

When a group of engineers offered Rayissa Sayyad a simple mechanism to cool her 150 sq ft home that had a tin roof, she was more than a little incredulous. The tiny dwelling in the Shindevasti slum in...

13 Feb 2023

Low-cost, low-tech cooling offers hope for Indian slums

News / Food & Agriculture

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

Shankar Nepali, a resident of Lum, located in one of the rural municipalities of Jumla district in West Nepal, had recently bought 20 sheep with borrowed money worth Rs.250,000 (US$1,930). The sheep r...

6 Dec 2022

Farmers left in the lurch as climate-induced lightning strikes kill sheep by hundreds in Nepal

News / Food & Agriculture

In Colombia, a seed bank unlocks genetic secrets in climate fight

Colombian agronomist Javier Gereda gestures proudly towards the sturdy bean plant and bright green seedlings he has spent the past seven years nurturing back from agricultural oblivion. "This is my s...

17 Oct 2022

In Colombia, a seed bank unlocks genetic secrets in climate fight

Press Releases / NDC Transport Initiative for Asia

Council for decarbonising transport in Asia reports zero-carbon goal by mid-century

A groundbreaking council of 14 experts known as the Council for Decarbonising Transport in Asia, set up under the NDC Transport Initiative for Asia, gathered to promote critical dialogue on achieving ...

28 Jul 2022

Council for decarbonising transport in Asia reports zero-carbon goal by mid-century

News / Energy

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

It has been described by some as an “election year decision” to please climate activists and by others as a distraction that might even raise global emissions. In recent years LNG exports from the US ...

7 Mar 2024

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

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