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Kaveh Madani is many things. He has been deputy head of Iran’s environmental agency, an activist, a climate negotiator. But fundamentally he has always been a water scientist. Now, as director of t...

26 Jan 2026

Asia is entering a major infrastructure build-out as governments expand power grids, transport networks, water systems and digital infrastructure to support urbanisation, industrialisation and the ene...

30 Sep 2026

Financing for development: Reforming global systems to drive progress

The global financial system is failing to meet the challenges of escalating debt, systemic inequalities and intensifying shocks of climate change. Developing economies are at a crit...

15 Mar 2025

The three-day conference brought together nearly 200 researchers and legal experts to discuss future temperature pathways where the Paris Agreement’s “aspirational” target to limit global warming to 1...

17 Oct 2025

GIC sustainability head Emily Chew speaking at SGFIN summit 2025

...equities saw a big boost in 2020, but they have underperformed oil and gas stocks and the broader market since early 2022. Image: Columbia University's Centre on Global Energy Policy However, Chew sa...

19 Mar 2025

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank have launched a new financing initiative to accelerate the Asean Power Grid (APG) – a three-deca...

16 Oct 2025

...equities. Bengaluru’s data centres alone consume over 26 million litres each year, even as the city recently experienced what was described as its “worst water crisis” in nearly five centuries. Hydera...

21 Apr 2026

When one thinks of metropolitan Hong Kong, farmers do not typically come to mind. Yet there are many farms in the New Territories surrounding Alan To’s Aromafunapy site which have seen their harvests ...

4 Aug 2025

Global climate and health leaders convene in Vietnam to tackle equity, sustainability and climate resilience

More than 300 healthcare leaders, policymakers, and environmental advocates from across Asia and all over the globe will gather at the International Scientific Conference on Climate Change and Health ...

28 Oct 2024

Asean Power Grid: Accelerating the region’s energy transition

Southeast Asia is entering a decisive stage in its energy transition. As energy demand grows, governments are looking for ways to deliver affordable, reliable and clean electricity to homes, businesse...

22 Jan 2026

Last month, the southern Indian city of Bengaluru faced an early start to the monsoon and experienced its wettest May ever. Beneath the heavy rains and floods, water shortages may seem a far cry. Yet ...

16 Jun 2025

Groundbreaking budget tagging tool to strengthen public spending on the welfare of children in the Philippines

In a landmark move to institutionalise child-responsive budgeting for local governments, the Government of the Philippines, through the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), the Dep...

25 Aug 2025

Countries are increasingly referencing the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the climate action plans they produce every five years under the Paris Agreement. As of August 2025, about 54 per cent (105 o...

12 Feb 2026

When Jessa Cabaay began working in marine conservation in the Philippines, she frequently found she was the only woman in the room. Her isolation meant she often felt anxious while presenting at stake...

10 Jul 2026

Amid signs that the US and Iran are nearing a war-ending deal, it is time to examine the economies that the conflict effectively brought to a standstill this year. In March 2026, when the exchange of ...

10 Jul 2026

In Bangladesh, a country where a colonial-era law still criminalises same-sex relations, the grassroots group Noboprobhaat Foundation created a rare safe space for LGBTQ+ people living in the country...

2 Jan 2026

UNDP, IBM launch new tools to forecast energy access and model energy equity

IBM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched new interactive models on energy within UNDP’s global GeoHub platform. These innovative solutions use technologi...

25 Sep 2024

Gender equality is the world’s unfinished business – and unfinished potential

Gender equality remains the unfinished business of our time – and the private sector is indispensable for closing the gap, according to a new report from UN Women lau...

6 Oct 2025

Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI: Global leaders commit to responsible AI for sustainable development

At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC), global leaders from the public sector, business, science, and civil society have jointly endorsed the Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the Sust...

13 Jun 2025

...equities and other asset classes. The fund, which manages about US$770 billion assets by some estimates, has invested in a number of climate tech firms in recent years. In 2023, GIC co-invested in Sw...

25 Jul 2024

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