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...carbon technologies. Even though government departments have already proposed targets for increasing the proportion of low-carbon smelting and steelmaking, companies have been slow to decarbonise thro...

19 Nov 2024

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Yet they face growing pressures: climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, increased vessel traffic and (potentially) deep-sea mining. “ The agreement was neg...

20 Jan 2026

NVPC National Corporate Purpose & Impact Study 2025

While nearly eight in 10 companies in Singapore say they have a moral obligation to support broader societal goals, only a smaller group are actually engaging in corporate giving or volunteering, a ne...

6 Feb 2026

Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn’t countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...

1 Dec 2025

...carbon sinks. These dynamics create formidable obstacles – namely, limited fiscal space and high capital costs – that trap countries in a vicious cycle of vulnerability. Breaking free requires a signi...

16 Sep 2025

...carbon projects developed in Malaysia and beyond, such as large hydropower dams and forest-based carbon projects in Sarawak, as well as the expansion of sugarcane and palm oil plantation estates in In...

17 Feb 2025

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Amid all the bad climate news, the Amazon rainforest - the world's largest tropical forest - is teasing out some hope. After record-setting temperatures, drought and wildfires in 2024, last year saw ...

4 Feb 2026

Philippine environmental and community groups are denouncing what they call a destructive development model, enabled by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), that is stripping ...

29 May 2026

...carbon accounting, stated the report. Myllyvirta said that most clean energy applications have an emissions payback time of a few years. “They increase emissions at the time of production and then beg...

21 Feb 2025

...carbon market mechanisms. Malaysia is aligning this framework with its own National Carbon Market Policy to mobilise financing for carbon projects. Similarly, our National Planetary Health Action Plan...

27 Dec 2024

Asia-Pacific countries endorse bold steps for greener, resilient cities at UN assembly

...carbon transport, nature-based solutions and climate- and disaster-resilient infrastructure. The resolution also recognises the critical role of city leaders and community networks in shaping u...

5 May 2025

Emissions from the sector increased by 1.6 per cent year-on-year to reach a record high of 14.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (tCO2). This increase was predominantly due to a 4 per cent growth in electr...

9 Apr 2025

Glasgow's St Enoch Underground Station in the rain

More than four in five companies worldwide have seen their operations disrupted by extreme weather over the last five years, according to new research by MSCI Institute released on Monday as governmen...

10 Nov 2025

...carbon market. Article 6.4, a section under the Paris Agreement which lays out the foundation for countries to trade carbon credits, has been one of the longest-standing disputes at the COP negotiatio...

12 Nov 2024

DBS CEO Helge Muenkel - 2025 SR briefing

...carbon credits generated from the early phase-out of coal, as a new source of capital to shut down the region’s relatively young coal fleet. “Asian decarbonisation doesn’t necessarily mean slower deca...

6 Mar 2025

The 2026 FIFA World Cup heads into Sunday's final after experts documented dangerous heat at more than one in four matches, making it the hottest edition of football's biggest tournament on record. De...

17 Jul 2026

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...carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). Interestingly, the positioning of technical innovation and green industrial policy as the preferred solutions to reduce emissions has parallels with ele...

22 Jul 2025

...carbon markets, fostering research collaboration, innovating impact finance solutions, and supporting regional corporate partnerships.

9 Apr 2025

Pak Gadang walks down the log yard at OKI pulp mill

...carbon taxes," he said. In an interview in 2023, Fu cited the introduction of carbon border taxes as a potential barrier to growth for Asian steel companies, which has motivated the company to decarbo...

25 Feb 2025

...Carbon Brief, but the “main driver” was the destabilising effect caused by thawing permafrost. The research also finds that the South Lhonak lake has been expanding for decades, due to meltwater from ...

6 Feb 2025

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