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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Mahathir is back—good news or bad for sustainability in Malaysia?

...carbon emissions by 45 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030 after the Paris climate deal was struck in 2015. Will Mahathir stick to this promise? Much of Najib's commitment was predicated on keeping carbon...

13 May 2018

Mahathir is back—good news or bad for sustainability in Malaysia?

Press Releases / UN Environment

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

05 June 2019, Hangzhou, China—Governments, industry, communities and individuals around the world today commemorated World Environment Day, the United Nations’ biggest annual event for pos...

6 Jun 2019

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

Singapore's 'City in a Garden' plan has seen a network of parks, nature reserves and greened buildings span the 70 kilometre-squared island—but the country has just 0.5 per cent primary forest cover left. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

...carbon, it needs to get greener—literally. By 2030, the tropical city-state aims to cut carbon emissions intensity by 36 per cent of 2005 levels, and one way of doing so is to adorn its thousands of h...

19 Sep 2018

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

So…Trump is wrong about climate change, what are you doing about it?

...carbon-neutral, Interface has launched its Climate Take Back™ mission. This includes an Insights Report, featuring the views of 404 climate experts and over 300 young business leaders (18-35 years old...

29 Jun 2018

So…Trump is wrong about climate change, what are you doing about it?

News / Cities

What does a sustainable city mean to Singapore's youth?

...carbon emissions, Tan Chuan-Jin responded that the country has to focus on generating good quality growth that will attract foreign investors, increase people’s incomes and make sure different segment...

22 Oct 2018

What does a sustainable city mean to Singapore's youth?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate science supports youth protests

The global youth protests demanding action on climate change are having a marked effect. In their thousands, concerned climate scientists, backed by colleagues from other disciplines, are voicing supp...

22 Apr 2019

Climate science supports youth protests

News / Energy

Not so fast on fracking, UN agency tells developing countries

...carbon dioxide found in other fossil fuels. The fuel “should contribute…to achieving a low-carbon economy” by 2030, the report says, while pointing to “gaps in local geological and hydrological knowle...

25 May 2018

Not so fast on fracking, UN agency tells developing countries

Press Releases / Full Circle Public Relations

Income Eco Run welcomes Singapore Environment Council as Strategic Green Advisor

...carbon emissions Choosing to share transport or taking eco-friendly transport options to and from the race in order to reduce carbon footprint This year, ofo is providing every participant with tw...

26 Apr 2018

Income Eco Run welcomes Singapore Environment Council as Strategic Green Advisor

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Local communities are not just climate victims

“Poor and vulnerable” is a common refrain in climate change stories. It’s a phrase used with good reason, to highlight how climate change disproportionately affects the disenfranchised. Economically, ...

19 Jun 2019

Local communities are not just climate victims

Houston, you have a problem. Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey

News / Carbon & Climate

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

...Carbon emissions to set a new record in 2018. Source: International Energy Agency Scarier still, humanity doesn't seem to care. We continue to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, dump plastic in...

31 Oct 2018

Be afraid—11 scary facts, stats and lies about our planet this Halloween

News / Green Buildings

Singapore puts health at the heart of green buildings

Green buildings in Singapore will soon be kinder to not just the environment, but the people working in them. Launched on the third day of the 2018 International Green Building Conference, the new Gre...

26 Sep 2018

Singapore puts health at the heart of green buildings

Opinion / Policy & Finance

3 issues to watch as China and India move toward sustainable development

...carbon trading market and India's "Perform, Achieve, Trade" scheme are two potential models for carbon mitigation. China recently launched the world's largest carbon trading scheme in its power sector...

15 Feb 2018

3 issues to watch as China and India move toward sustainable development

News / Carbon & Climate

Great Barrier Reef at ‘unprecedented’ risk of collapse after major bleaching event

...carbon emissions are rapidly reduced and we limit warming to 1.5-2C." This story was published with permission from Carbon Brief.

19 Apr 2018

Great Barrier Reef at ‘unprecedented’ risk of collapse after major bleaching event

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia dam builder rebuffs new study to assess impact on orangutans

Developers of a hydropower dam that threatens the only known habitat of a critically endangered orangutan say they will push on despite calls from the IUCN for an independent study into the impact of ...

25 Aug 2020

Indonesia dam builder rebuffs new study to assess impact on orangutans

Opinion / Policy & Finance

China's carbon market needs ambition

...carbon markets are often lower than expected suggests that there is room for more ambition on the part of authorities. China Carbon Forum conducts a biennial China Carbon Pricing Survey, and we recent...

3 Jan 2018

China's carbon market needs ambition

Extinction Rebellion protests near Waterloo Bridge, central London.

News / Carbon & Climate

'Rebel or sink': Rallies against government inaction on climate change go global

People in cities around the world have taken to the streets to protest against the inaction of their governments to confront climate change. Environmental civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebell...

16 Apr 2019

'Rebel or sink': Rallies against government inaction on climate change go global

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What staying cool has to do with eradicating poverty in India

The record-setting heat that blanketed the planet this summer was a sticky reminder that as global temperatures increase, people on the margins of society—the sick, the elderly, and the poor—will suff...

15 Oct 2018

What staying cool has to do with eradicating poverty in India

News / Carbon & Climate

Failure in conservation projects are rarely recorded, new study finds

We’ve all had duds. We’ve worked on projects far longer than we would have liked to and failed. We’ve agonised over missteps. We’ve learned from roadblocks — sometimes we’ve not. Yet it’s the successe...

21 Oct 2019

Failure in conservation projects are rarely recorded, new study finds

News / Carbon & Climate

Future of food under 'severe threat' as species diversity disappears—UN

The future of food supplies is under "severe threat" because of the number of animal and plant species fast disappearing, a United Nations report said on Friday, as the world grapples with how to feed...

25 Feb 2019

Future of food under 'severe threat' as species diversity disappears—UN

News / Food & Agriculture

Crops at risk from changing climate

...carbon dioxide should and sometimes could mean a greener world. More warmth and earlier springs mean a longer growing season with lower risks of late frost. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture,...

15 May 2019

Crops at risk from changing climate

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