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Opinion / Cities

Clean air in a Covid-19 crisis. But what’s next?

...carbon sponges' when applied to buildings. It should therefore come as little surprise that these skyward vertical terraces for people to enjoy the great outdoors are often featured heavily in our bui...

15 May 2020

Clean air in a Covid-19 crisis. But what’s next?

News / Energy

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

Previously praised for its attractiveness and gusty growth, Vietnam’s wind market now faces a pivotal moment. Should the Vietnamese government fail to send a clear signal of continued support for the ...

23 Mar 2020

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

News / Carbon & Climate

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming

...carbon reductions. Despite a current White House hostile to climate-change policy, the United States has peaked its carbon emissions, at least for now, as has neighboring Canada and much of the EU and...

18 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming

News / Energy

Microgrids are powering remote communities—and helping Southeast Asia's eco resorts live up to their name

...Carbon emissions drop and this is also a good marketing tool for the resorts, he said. Canopy Power chief executive Sujay Malve (second from left) and some members of his team working on the Hornbill...

13 Sep 2019

Microgrids are powering remote communities—and helping Southeast Asia's eco resorts live up to their name

News / Policy & Finance

Work to make the world a better place: 5 things you need to know about ‘green jobs’

...carbonising the economy and bringing down emissions of harmful gasses in the atmosphere. The ILO says that green jobs contribute to the transformation of economies, workplaces, enterprises and labou...

29 Apr 2019

Work to make the world a better place: 5 things you need to know about ‘green jobs’

Opinion / Green Buildings

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

...Carbon Buildings Commitment, which was launched on 13 September during the Building Up to Net Zero Carbon Emissions session with 38 founding signatories. Buildings are responsible for 39 per cent of g...

2 Oct 2018

Three lessons for the building sector from the Global Climate Action Summit

News / Food & Agriculture

Agribusiness must reduce environmental impact. What role can banks and NGOs play?

...carbon emissions, and industrial farming to feed a growing population has led to devastating impacts ranging from the loss of forests and wildlife habitats, to soil degradation and water pollution. Th...

4 Nov 2019

Agribusiness must reduce environmental impact. What role can banks and NGOs play?

News / Policy & Finance

Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise

Despite promising a decade ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the world's leading economies more than doubled subsidies to coal-fired power plants over three years, putting climate goals at risk,...

25 Jun 2019

Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change threats ignored by most Southeast Asian banks

...carbon future, McCarron told Eco-Business. Otherwise, he noted, banks not only risk missing green investment opportunities, but also having to deal with stranded assets, credit risk and reputational d...

22 Aug 2019

Climate change threats ignored by most Southeast Asian banks

News / Carbon & Climate

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

...carbon reduction targets from carbon intensity targets (the latter being the amount of carbon emitted per unit of gross domestic product). The policies can have radically different socio-economic impa...

10 Oct 2018

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The science is clear: We have to start creating our low-carbon future today

...carbon dioxide removal (CDR): large-scale technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. carbon capture and sequestration (CCS): technology to capture and store carbon dioxide from elect...

15 Oct 2018

The science is clear: We have to start creating our low-carbon future today

Opinion / Energy

Can the Pacific become the world’s first fossil-fuel-free zone?

...carbons for electricity. Imported fuel is over 90 per cent of the energy mix and costs about 75 per cent of power utilities’ operating costs. Given the size of economies in the Pacific, hydrocarbons r...

18 Feb 2020

Can the Pacific become the world’s first fossil-fuel-free zone?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Europe must answer the climate call

...carbonise the global economy even faster. The scientific consensus on climate change underscores the danger of complacency. Global average temperatures are already 1ºC higher than in the pre-industria...

21 Jun 2019

Europe must answer the climate call

Opinion / Waste

Protector or polluter? The impact of Covid-19 on the movement to end plastic waste

Versatile, affordable and ever-present, plastics have been essential to keeping hospitals running and protecting our frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. They’re the bedrock of medical equi...

8 May 2020

Protector or polluter? The impact of Covid-19 on the movement to end plastic waste

Trees made bare by acid rain in Smokey Mountain National Park, USA

News / Policy & Finance

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

...carbon trading” for his work on carbon markets around the world. “That does not include 37,000 lives a year saved nor the restoration of rivers.” But could market-based solutions solve the persistent ...

7 Nov 2018

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia's banks are bucking global finance decarbonisation trend by funding coal, study finds

...carbonisation of the finance industry by continuing to finance new coal-fired power projects in Southeast Asia, a new report has found. Maybank, Malaysia's largest bank by assets and Southeast Asia's ...

17 Feb 2020

Malaysia's banks are bucking global finance decarbonisation trend by funding coal, study finds

Videos / Lifestyle

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

...carbon-neutral energy retailer to purchase carbon credits, which contribute to the building of a new grid-connected hydropower plant in Quang Nam, Vietnam, offsetting 105 metric tons of carbon dioxide...

9 Nov 2018

The Conscious Festival draws biggest turnout yet in Singapore

News / Carbon & Climate

Eco-Business wins at WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2019

Eco-Business has won an award for best news website at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2019 held in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFR...

30 Oct 2019

Eco-Business wins at WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2019

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can the broken capitalism system be fixed?

In 2015, the international community launched a renewed effort to tackle collective global challenges under the auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and the Framework Convent...

19 Jun 2019

Can the broken capitalism system be fixed?

News / Cities

Philippine resort city chooses 'morally correct' low-carbon path

...carbon. And we are happy that we make a difference to not just Puerto Princesa and Palawan, but also the Earth." In 2011, Puerto Princesa became the first Southeast Asian city to earn a "zero carbon" ...

8 Oct 2018

Philippine resort city chooses 'morally correct' low-carbon path

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