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Singapore uses more airconditioning per person than any country in Southeast Asia, and energy expended on ai 73 per cent more energy on cooling more by 2030, to a total of 666,748 terrajoules. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

...carbon intensity by 36 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030, it is going to have to get to grips with its addiction to air-con. Finding better ways to chill At IGBC, Singapore's Building and Construction ...

28 Sep 2018

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

News / Carbon & Climate

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

...carbon allows scientists to determine whether tropical forests are a “carbon sink”, meaning they take in more carbon than they release, or a “carbon source”, meaning their carbon emissions exceed thei...

29 Sep 2017

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

News / Food & Agriculture

Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season nears

...carbon-rich peat forests across the country. The BRG chief, Nazir Foead, said he believed that peat fires on the scale of the 2015 disaster would not happen in 2019, citing lessons learned from past m...

9 Jan 2019

Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season nears

News / Lifestyle

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

...carbon mesh inserted into the t-shirt's pocket that absorbs and traps pollutants in the air such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. According to a press release for Kloters, the t-shirt represents ...

18 Apr 2018

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

To save Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, start by mapping them

...carbon than non-peat mineral soils. Peat “domes” are complex hydrological formations that can range in thickness from half a meter to more than 20 meters deep. Peatland forests hold many times more ca...

1 Feb 2018

To save Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, start by mapping them

News / Carbon & Climate

Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals

...carbonisation strategy, something it has long been under pressure to do. Last month at the COP23 climate summit in Bonn, Germany, Carbon Brief spoke to Edmund Hughes, the IMO’s head of air pollution a...

13 Dec 2017

Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals

News / Waste

There is a sustainable solution to Asia's sand crunch

What if Asia's construction industry used only recycled sand and stopped sourcing it from the region's environmentally sensitive beaches, mangroves and river banks? A new mobile processing plant from...

26 Jul 2018

There is a sustainable solution to Asia's sand crunch

News / Carbon & Climate

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

Women's untapped communication skills make them "uniquely placed" to explain the damaging impacts of an overheating planet and spur climate action by the public, mayors said on Thursday. From leaders ...

23 Feb 2019

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

News / Cities

Cities, scientists unite in battle against climate change at UN summit

...carbon emissions, according to U.N. figures. Under the Paris climate agreement, nearly 200 countries agreed to curb planet-warming emissions enough to keep the rise in global temperatures to well belo...

6 Mar 2018

Cities, scientists unite in battle against climate change at UN summit

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Taking action on the SDGs: Lessons from Sembcorp Industries

...carbon emission intensity of its energy business by close to 25 per cent from its current 0.55 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per megawatt hour (tCO2 e/MWh) to 0.42 tCO2 e/MWh by 2022 and to less...

11 May 2018

Taking action on the SDGs: Lessons from Sembcorp Industries

Press Releases / AVPN

AVPN and Prudence Foundation launch competition to foster greater disaster awareness and preparedness

Prudence Foundation, the community investment arm of Prudential in Asia, and AVPN, a Singapore-based funders’ network that is committed to building a high-impact social investment community...

22 Feb 2019

AVPN and Prudence Foundation launch competition to foster greater disaster awareness and preparedness

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

...carbon pricing and emissions trading. The Howard Government debated—and rejected—a national carbon price in 1994. In 2009 Labor proposed laws to establish a national emissions trading scheme, the Carb...

19 Oct 2017

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

News / Carbon & Climate

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

“It’s clear to anyone who puts their head below the waves that the fate of the world’s coral reefs is hanging in the balance,” said UNEP chief Erik Solheim. “At the moment these undersea explosions of...

15 Nov 2018

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

Opinion / Transport

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

Growing demand for electric vehicles is important to help cut transport emissions, but it will also lead to new mining. Without a careful approach, we could create new environmental damage while tryin...

17 Apr 2019

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

News / Policy & Finance

Katowice climate talks run short of time

By tradition, United Nations conferences on tackling global warming always over-run. No surprise then that the Katowice climate talks ended a day late. They made some useful progress. But the underlyi...

18 Dec 2018

Katowice climate talks run short of time

News / Carbon & Climate

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

...carbon budget. Trees grow by using photosynthesis to drawn carbon dioxide from the air, and they use the carbon to build wood, foliage and fruit, and return oxygen to the atmosphere. So the presumptio...

9 Oct 2017

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

News / Food & Agriculture

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

Algae—tiny organisms at the base of the food chain that pack a nutritional punch—could be the next big thing in plant-based protein, if recent developments in Singapore are any indicator. Last month, ...

2 Jul 2019

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

News / Policy & Finance

Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day has fallen to record low of about 655 million—or 9 percent of the world's population—but a global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is unlik...

20 Sep 2018

Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

News / Carbon & Climate

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

South Asia has overtaken China to become home to the most polluted cities in the world. Fifteen of the world’s 20 worst polluted cities in 2018 were in India, according to the latest data from Greenpe...

6 Jun 2019

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Student climate strikes: System change, not climate change

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, is calling for system change. At a press conference in Brussels, she told the European Commission that in order to fight climate change we nee...

18 Mar 2019

Student climate strikes: System change, not climate change

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