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Expert explains why Melaka should obtain a credit rating

...smart capital investment plan. The City has indicated its willingness to pursue this objective, and UNIDO is coordinating with local and national stakeholders, as well as development partners, to rais...

15 May 2019

Expert explains why Melaka should obtain a credit rating

A woman rides in the back of an auto-rickshaw in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Opinion / Transport

Women, work, and India's rickshaw revolution

...smart.” Indian women’s travel is characterised by “trip chaining.” They make shorter and more frequent trips than men, and their trips often involve more stops, to run errands, shop, pick up children ...

10 Dec 2018

Women, work, and India's rickshaw revolution

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solutions

Blue Planet moves closer to ‘zero waste to landfill’ vision with new green building solution

...Smart Creative’s e-waste processing technology in the UK, Blue Planet is achieving its vision of closing the loop on waste. This latest acquisition is an opportunity for Blue Planet to provide ...

29 Aug 2019

Blue Planet moves closer to ‘zero waste to landfill’ vision with new green building solution

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solutions

Blue Planet’s latest acquisition marks entry into industrial waste processing

...Smart Creative Technologies Ltd., which will help Blue Planet expand its e-waste processing capabilities in Asia. Bradley Chew, Director, Blue Planet, commented: “Blue Planet was founded on the...

19 Aug 2019

Blue Planet’s latest acquisition marks entry into industrial waste processing

News / Cities

Clean, green and safe: The Philippines' first sustainable city to be built by 2022

...smart cities should also be resilient. So smart systems should also be mindful of environmental concerns like clean energy, better use of resources and capacity building of populations,” he added. Val...

9 Mar 2018

Clean, green and safe: The Philippines' first sustainable city to be built by 2022

Podcasts / Energy

The future of energy

...smart energy and how can it solve Asia's energy challenges? What policies are needed to support the transition to a smart, sustainable energy future? How do governments and companies meaningfully eng...

2 Feb 2018

The future of energy

News / Cities

Wi-Fi but no water: Can smart tech help a city's poor?

...smart technology) as a package without any kind of customisation at a grassroots level," she said. Smart technology installed like this is "giving the icing on the cake to people who are already conne...

8 Jan 2018

Wi-Fi but no water: Can smart tech help a city's poor?

Inside what could be the office of a startup perhaps

News / Policy & Finance

Can start-ups help big business become sustainable?

...smart platform for reuseables, a device to enhance diesel engines with hydrogen, a new biomaterial for 3D printing, green data centres, and a dehumidifier for use in air conditioning. But the grand pr...

14 Jun 2019

Can start-ups help big business become sustainable?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How is a carbon dividend better than a carbon tax?

...smart step in the right direction—one that wouldn’t invite a “yellow vest” reaction. But don’t let anyone tell you it’s a silver bullet. When it comes to climate change, there isn’t one. Mark Paul is...

16 May 2019

How is a carbon dividend better than a carbon tax?

Press Releases / Ethical Corporation

Mayor’s of leading cities in North America join Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

...smart city of the future looks like. The two-day conference, taking place March 18-19, will host 500 CEOs, business leaders, investors, government representatives and NGOs from the likes of; Joste...

17 Dec 2018

Mayor’s of leading cities in North America join Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

school boys in India drink water from bucket

News / Water

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

...smart allocation of water among users in the face of variable supplies. Three ways to reduce water stress In any geography, water stress can be reduced by measures ranging from common sense to cutting...

19 Aug 2019

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

News / Cities

In Asia's space-starved cities, urban planners bring 'dead' land to life

...smart cities category at the World Architecture Festival in November. "Bangkok is a very dense city. Opening up these unused spaces to increase connectivity to parks and canals can encourage more peop...

17 Jan 2019

In Asia's space-starved cities, urban planners bring 'dead' land to life

Press Releases / ID Capital Pte Ltd

2019 winners announced for Future Food Asia

...smart traps that detect the presence of an insect, communicate the information to the cloud, then to an end user via a mobile app. The novel low-power sensor is similar to a 'behavioural fingerprint' ...

11 Jun 2019

2019 winners announced for Future Food Asia

News / Corporate Responsibility

From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

“The food system that we’ve built over the last century is a dead end for the future,” said Emmanuel Faber, CEO of French food and beverage corporation, Danone, at the United Nations Climate Action Su...

11 Nov 2019

From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

Opinion / Waste

The case for building a circular economy

...smart technology with less of the downsides. However, the circular economy needs energy solutions to work as well. As Hartikainen explains, in one way or another, energy remains crucial to solve our e...

26 Apr 2019

The case for building a circular economy

Girls in a village in India read books after dark with the help of solar lamps

Opinion / Energy

Are mini-grids the solution to the big problem of energy poverty?

...Smart Power India, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, has helped to build over 140 (and counting) privately owned mini-grids across the country, representing the largest cluster of local ge...

27 Jun 2018

Are mini-grids the solution to the big problem of energy poverty?

News / Energy

Subsidies killing renewable energy investments in Nepal

...smart to bring in new innovation? Subsidies are good at a certain level, but overdependence is a problem and we failed to have a clear exit plan from the subsidy policy.” “International investment is ...

6 Aug 2019

Subsidies killing renewable energy investments in Nepal

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Three scenarios show we have to think carefully about ethics in designing smart cities

To improve cities, governments are increasingly promoting the use of technology and data-driven decision-making. They decide how technologies and Big Data are being used or deployed in creating smart ...

19 Mar 2018

Three scenarios show we have to think carefully about ethics in designing smart cities

News / Carbon & Climate

Is the future of renewable energy in Asia to share it?

What if countries in Asia, with their shared wealth of sun, wind and tidal potential, could improve energy security and ramp up renewable energy consumption by sharing clean energy across their border...

11 Sep 2019

Is the future of renewable energy in Asia to share it?

Press Releases / PEFC

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

...SMART, a dialogue that explored the benefits and potential for incorporating technology solutions into forest certification. About the programme for the endorsement of forest certification The Progr...

12 Dec 2018

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

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