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News / Corporate Responsibility

B Lab appoints Singapore CEO to 'accelerate' sustainable business movement

...2025. The certification of a listed company is an important win for the B Corp movement in Singapore, as typically B Corps tend to be small-to medium-sized businesses. Other certified B Corps in Singa...

16 Jun 2023

B Lab appoints Singapore CEO to 'accelerate' sustainable business movement

Opinion / Energy

Gas should not be eligible for transition finance

...2025 (unless extended). This is a lower standard as compared to, for example, Singapore and Thailand, which require all greenhouse gases to be measured, necessitating an emission abatement technology ...

28 Feb 2024

Gas should not be eligible for transition finance

News / Food & Agriculture

With sustainable cotton in fashion, Indian farmers seek fair price

...2025 in response to consumer concerns over the environment. About six million farmers in India cultivate cotton on 12 million hectares, producing a quarter of the world’s cotton, making it a key marke...

23 Nov 2023

With sustainable cotton in fashion, Indian farmers seek fair price

News / Carbon & Climate

Hottest ever July heralds ‘era of global boiling’: UN chief

...2025 – five years late and still woefully short of the required amount. The Portugese diplomat who has served as the UN’s climate chief for the past seven years, also sought for the loss and damage fu...

28 Jul 2023

Hottest ever July heralds ‘era of global boiling’: UN chief

Opinion / Transport

Repurposing Malaysia's fuel subsidy to facilitate the shift to electric vehicles

...2025, while for locally-assembled EVs the excise duty and sales tax exemption will stay until end 2027. Nonetheless, EV take-up in Malaysia remains dismal with only 2,631 EVs sold in 2022, which is le...

27 Mar 2023

Repurposing Malaysia's fuel subsidy to facilitate the shift to electric vehicles

News / Energy

Could hyperscale data centres be the key to achieving round-the-clock clean power in Asia?

...2025. Spillane agreed that the tech industry can accelerate the deployment of dispatchable carbon-free energy solutions, taking into account the sector's scale and the 24/7 clean energy targets it ha...

20 Feb 2024

Could hyperscale data centres be the key to achieving round-the-clock clean power in Asia?

News / Carbon & Climate

As China’s carbon market turns two, how has it performed?

...2025,” says Slater, an energy and climate specialist at environmental charity ClientEarth. Meanwhile, over 20 per cent of the respondents predicted the market to “strongly” impact their companies’ dec...

5 Sep 2023

As China’s carbon market turns two, how has it performed?

News / Water

Singapore counts costs of oil spill to biodiversity-rich waters as shore cleanup expands

...2025 to help them "ease cost stress" and remain competitive. Sivasothi said he is unaware if liabilities for previous oil spills in Singapore took into consideration the impacts on nature and biodiver...

19 Jun 2024

Singapore counts costs of oil spill to biodiversity-rich waters as shore cleanup expands

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News / Transport

What the Philippines' US$1 billion electric bus project means for female commuters and the environment

...2025, when a fleet of electric buses is expected to begin operations in the city. Women commuters riding a bus in Davao City, Philippines: RVTM The Davao Public Transport Modernisation Project aims...

7 Jul 2023

What the Philippines' US$1 billion electric bus project means for female commuters and the environment

An advertising for City Energy in Singapore, promoting natural gas-powered water heaters as "greener"

News / Energy

Singapore energy firm sparks confusion with promotion for ‘green’ gas-fired heaters

...2025 as one of the measures needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. City Energy's messaging is ambiguous as the poster does not clearly state where the 'green' part of the messaging is relevant ...

19 Sep 2023

Singapore energy firm sparks confusion with promotion for ‘green’ gas-fired heaters

News / Energy

Bangladesh solar power surge set to unlock thousands of green jobs

...2025, solar power will become the cheapest energy source for the country, the report said. Chowdhury said recently approved independent solar photovoltaic (PV) projects have a tariff of less than 10...

22 Jan 2024

Bangladesh solar power surge set to unlock thousands of green jobs

News / Policy & Finance

Jubilation for COP28 loss and damage deal but World Bank's role as interim funder still a concern

...2025. Previous studies have stated that billions of dollars a year is needed for developing countries to both protect themselves and recover from increasingly severe storms, floods and droughts. At th...

4 Dec 2023

Jubilation for COP28 loss and damage deal but World Bank's role as interim funder still a concern

News / Waste

New scheme to up plastic recycling rates in Hong Kong gets broad support, but consumers want higher rebates: survey

...2025, will provide rebates of S$0.10 ( US$0.075 per plastic bottle or metal can returned – nearly six times the amount offered in Hong Kong’s PRS. The city-state deployed reverse vending machines in 2...

19 Jan 2024

New scheme to up plastic recycling rates in Hong Kong gets broad support, but consumers want higher rebates: survey

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition

...2025, compared to 2020 figures. By late 2023, coking furnaces under 4.3 metres in height had been phased out in Shanxi, as taller furnaces are more energy-efficient and less polluting. In addition, Sh...

8 Feb 2024

Analysis: China’s steel industry needs time to transition

News / Policy & Finance

Why the COP28 deal on fossil fuels will push a ‘just transition’

...2025. What is being learned could also help deal with the need to cut planet-heating emissions in other economic sectors, including forestry, agriculture and transport, he added. Manal Shehabi, a rese...

21 Dec 2023

Why the COP28 deal on fossil fuels will push a ‘just transition’

Press Releases / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Asean pushes for inclusive business models for sustainable growth

...2025. Incoming Asean chair Lao PDR announced that the Seventh Asean IB Summit will be organised in 2024.

5 Sep 2023

Asean pushes for inclusive business models for sustainable growth

Press Releases / UiPath

79% of Singapore business leaders struggle with ESG data collection: new UiPath study

...2025 and 2027, respectively. This will require businesses to be more efficient in their reporting processes. Technology investments – including automation – for robust ESG data collection,...

19 Nov 2023

79% of Singapore business leaders struggle with ESG data collection: new UiPath study

News / Policy & Finance

Conflict-hit countries left to face climate change alone

...2025. Even when money is short for longer-term adaptation, resilience experts say providing aid in the run-up to a disaster can reduce the need for food and other emergency relief later. In Somalia, w...

12 Dec 2023

Conflict-hit countries left to face climate change alone

Farmers using solar conduction dryer S4S Technologies Earthshot Prize

News / Food & Agriculture

Linking smallholders to markets was the breakthrough: Earthshot Prize winner S4S Technologies

...2025, and in the year after, reduce food waste by a total of 1.2 million tonnes. Nidhi Pant, 29, is a co-founder of S4S Technologies, one of the 2023 winners of UK's Earthshot Prize. Image: LinkedIn/...

17 Nov 2023

Linking smallholders to markets was the breakthrough: Earthshot Prize winner S4S Technologies

News / Policy & Finance

‘Dire, dismal, awful’: Climate adaptation deadlock at half-time threatens COP28 success

...2025 would be insufficient given the scale of climate risks today. A United Nations report last month had said that developing countries need 10 to 18 times more adaptation finance than what is curre...

8 Dec 2023

‘Dire, dismal, awful’: Climate adaptation deadlock at half-time threatens COP28 success

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