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Singapore's recycling rate falls to 10-year low

Singapore's recycling rate has fallen to a 10-year low, with the country's environment agency blaming the Covid-19 pandemic for low waste collection, processing and recycling. The city-state's overall...

23 Apr 2021

Singapore's recycling rate falls to 10-year low

News / Water

Struggle for water amid worsening floods in Kathmandu

The Bisnumati River, in the western part of Kathmandu, is sacred to Nepal's Hindu and Buddhist populations. One of the main waterways running through the Kathmandu Valley, it is now suffering from a s...

18 Jan 2022

Struggle for water amid worsening floods in Kathmandu

Press Releases / CapitaLand

CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge's winners and finalists get access to potential investors

Singapore, 4 February 2021 – CapitaLand’s inaugural CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge (CSXC) that was launched in November 2020 has secured over 270 entries from more than 25 coun...

5 Feb 2021

CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge's winners and finalists get access to potential investors

News / Carbon & Climate

Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2021 is ‘12th lowest’ on record

While this is the largest summer minimum since 2014, the NSIDC notes that the amount of multi-year sea ice this year is “one of the lowest levels in the ice age record”. Sea ice in both the Arctic and...

23 Sep 2021

Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2021 is ‘12th lowest’ on record

A woman walks into dried-up Narayanapuram Lake to collect waste to be sold in the scrap market

News / Policy & Finance

Pandemic has widened gap between rich and poor nations in meeting sustainable development goals

The socioeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has stunted progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and widened the gulf between rich and poor countries in their capacit...

2 Jul 2021

Pandemic has widened gap between rich and poor nations in meeting sustainable development goals

News / Cities

Heavy toll of development frenzy on Karachi coast

It’s a bright and humid April day in Karachi, on the eve of Ramadan. Muslim Ishaq has just returned to the jetty in Ibrahim Hyderi after the day’s fishing and is tying up his boat. He and his crew set...

8 Aug 2022

Heavy toll of development frenzy on Karachi coast

News / Carbon & Climate

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

Sarun Nong, a fisher on Koh Krabey, a small island in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, takes another look at the fishing net in front of him. It contains only small fish, and too few of them to make ends me...

25 Nov 2021

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced at the recent Climate Adaptation Summit its intention to place climate change at the heart of its work – recognising the natural world and the economy ...

7 Apr 2021

Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest

News / Energy

Hydropower push leaves Pakistani Kashmir's capital hot and bothered

On hot summer evenings, Khawaja Magbool Hadieri's family used to sit on their home's balcony and relish the cool breeze wafting off the nearby Neelum river. But these days, after 80 per cent of the ri...

19 Jul 2021

Hydropower push leaves Pakistani Kashmir's capital hot and bothered

News / Policy & Finance

Primary-coloured poison: lead paint still a huge threat to Indonesian kids

At the corner of Sei Batanghari Road in Medan, the capital of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, kindergarten students run around a building in their school uniforms. The bell to call them back to cl...

18 Nov 2021

Primary-coloured poison: lead paint still a huge threat to Indonesian kids

News / Carbon & Climate

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to approve marine sanctuaries

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), a governing body of 25 member states and the European Union, missed an opportunity to establish a network of three ma...

10 Nov 2020

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to approve marine sanctuaries

Press Releases / Temasek Foundation

#WeGotThis launches out of Singapore for the world

The programme aims to inspire and empower a generation of influencers and doers to lead change and amplify their voices and action for a more sustainable future. #WeGotThis (WGT), a global youth sust...

24 Sep 2021

#WeGotThis launches out of Singapore for the world

Singapore's central business district. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Dilemmas for central banks: climate stress tests for the real world

You might sometimes be irritated when banks ask endless questions to check up on your creditworthiness. Perhaps it will give you a measure of satisfaction to know that banks in turn are increasing...

5 Jul 2021

Dilemmas for central banks: climate stress tests for the real world

Press Releases / CropLife Asia

CropLife Asia 2021 annual general meeting tackles regional food supply chain & farmer resiliency

Croplife Asia 2021 AGM kicks off with election of Board of Directors The CropLife Asia 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) commenced virtually today, bringing together plant science industry leaders fr...

5 Mar 2021

CropLife Asia 2021 annual general meeting tackles regional food supply chain & farmer resiliency

A GrabFood driver riding an e-scooter in Little India, Singapore.

News / Transport

Grab is hatching a carbon-cutting plan

Grab, the Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing and delivery app, is working on a plan to decarbonise its operations. The eight-year-old company has been seeking advice from experts to set science-base...

5 Mar 2021

Grab is hatching a carbon-cutting plan

Press Releases / Equis Development Pte. Ltd

Equis Development Pte Ltd completes capital raising for Korean waste to energy platform

03 August, 2020 – Equis Development Pte. Ltd (or Equis), Asia-Pacific’s leading renewable energy and waste infrastructure developer, has successfully completed an equity capital raise of K...

7 Aug 2020

Equis Development Pte Ltd completes capital raising for Korean waste to energy platform

Bear attack victim Indian coal mining hub

News / Cities

'Tiger on my farm': Indian coal mining hub brings new dangers for villagers

The hillocks dotting the coal hub of Chandrapur are a green oasis in the central Indian region pockmarked with coal mines, where even rain puddles are black and a coal-fed thermal power plant belches ...

10 Sep 2021

'Tiger on my farm': Indian coal mining hub brings new dangers for villagers

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia to drive rapid rise in carbon emissions this year

One year after Covid-19 caused emissions to dip globally, the direction energy demand is now taking suggests that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are headed for their second-biggest annual ris...

26 Apr 2021

Asia to drive rapid rise in carbon emissions this year

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A bolder carbon target and a serious shift to EVs: what can the Philippines do to hit 2022 climate targets?

The 26th Conference of Parties (COP) ended with the failure of developed countries to deliver the promised US$100 billion of climate finance, disappointing poorer nations who pushed for the financial ...

14 Jan 2022

A bolder carbon target and a serious shift to EVs: what can the Philippines do to hit 2022 climate targets?

News / Energy

Twin-state hydropower project seen to sweep away vulnerable communities, local biodiversity

Straddling the border districts of Dehradun in Uttarakhand and Sirmour in Himachal Pradesh, the Kishau hydropower project, a multipurpose project with 660 MW power generation capacity, has been planne...

29 Apr 2022

Twin-state hydropower project seen to sweep away vulnerable communities, local biodiversity

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