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Changing Course - Climate Adaptation Hub

...100 representatives across society gathered at Sentosa for the first session of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment's (MSE) National Adaptation Conversation, a new platform for stakehol...

30 Jul 2026

...19 per cent increase in deals that it categorises as sustainable finance, amounting to US$54.1 billion in the first half of last year, according to Bloomberg. HSBC has provided US$448 billion in susta...

7 Jan 2026

...1.7 GW from India: 160 MW through the Surajmaninagar to Comilla interconnection, and 1.5 GW from Godda to Rohanpur, the latter operated by Adani Power. However, transporting the 20 MW via existing cor...

7 Sep 2026

...11,300 NGO observers registered for COP30, 11 per cent chose not to disclose funding. The most common funders were NGOs (57 per cent) and academic or research institutions (11 per cent). However, the...

18 Nov 2025

World’s largest CEO climate alliance slashes emissions while delivering growth

...130 companies in 27 countries and 12 industries. In terms of emissions, Alliance companies equate to the second-largest country in the world with a combined emissions footprint of 5.2Gt, accounting fo...

14 Oct 2025

Producers must register their products for the Beverage Container Return Scheme from 1 April

...10 (US$0.07) refundable deposit on all pre-packaged drinks in plastic bottles and metal cans by 1 April 2026. The extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme aims to improve the country’s low domest...

20 Nov 2025

...1 per cent of citizens owned 40.1 per cent of the country’s wealth. The wealthiest 10 per cent of Indians emit over 10 times the per capita emissions of the bottom 50 per cent. Yet, surveys show that...

18 Dec 2025

...19 and 2023, combined energy use among major industry players such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Micron, TSMC and Intel rose from 83 TWh to 113 TWh, according to Shin. This is an annual increase o...

15 Dec 2025

...1) and environmental impacts such as drought (Panama Canal in 2019 and 2023). But disruptions can also be intentional. At any time, around 1 per cent of the global commercial fleet is deliberately lai...

14 Aug 2026

...1970s, 10 per cent of fish stocks were fished at unsustainable levels. By 2021, that number had almost quadrupled to 37.7 per cent. Subsidy-driven overfishing is depleting fish populations and hurting...

7 Oct 2025

...14 Federal Court case involving the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC), which challenged the government's refusal to disclose water privatisation concession agreements and audit reports. The Feder...

11 Aug 2026

...10 large US brokers have collectively exported over 10,000 containers of discarded electronics – valued at more than US$1 billion – between January 2023 and February 2025. BAN estimates that about 2,0...

27 Oct 2025

...10-year average is 17 per cent. Floods in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia in late November and early December caused at least US$11 billion in losses. Heat stress cost Singapore S$1.18 billion (US$92...

2 Oct 2026

...1 per cent of today’s global oil and gas consumption. In practice, technology, economics, upfront investment, and asset turnover will affect the speed and scale of progress on substitution. New oil an...

1 Oct 2026

A*STAR has signed a five-year research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to help develop technologies for future fusion power plants

...1 billion SPARC project to Arc, its first commercial-scale fusion power plant planned in Virginia in the early 2030s. Google, one of CFS’s investors, has signed an agreement to buy half of the plant’s...

22 May 2026

...12.1 per cent year on year in the first half of 2025. A policy released in December 2025 sets new efficiency and emissions benchmarks for new and selected existing coal projects, including coal-to-ch...

17 Apr 2026

...1990-91 Gulf War between Kuwait and Iraq pushed up fuel costs in India, which impacted truck driver incomes, forcing him and others like him to move to Delhi in search of work opportunities. He recall...

17 Jun 2026

...12,000 m3 (3.2 million gal) per day, or 4.38 million m3 (1.16 billion gal) annually. Neither East Water nor BDC provided answers to written questions by the time this story was published. East Water’s...

17 Mar 2026

Solar panels on a commercial building in Penang, Malaysia2

...1, which certifies that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity is sourced from renewable sources like solar or hydropower. RECs only guarantee that renewable energy was produced at some point during the...

17 Oct 2025

Singapore central business district on a stormy day

...1 billion (US$780 million) and above will only be required to comply from 2028, while those with under S$1 billion market capitalisation will be expected to follow from 2030. Over 550 listed companies...

30 Aug 2025

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