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News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?

...119m hectares (12 per cent of its land area) between 2012 to 2020, which is smaller than the Chinese official data, which shows 128m hectares, as of 31 December 2019. As the chart below shows, the ar...

31 Aug 2023

Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?

News / Corporate Responsibility

How Asian co-operatives are championing sustainable development

...14.9 kilograms/square metre (kg/sqm) on the FairPrice Food Waste Index, an improvement from the 16.9kg/sqm recorded in 2021. The Great Taste, Less Waste campaign at supermarket NTUC FairPrice. Accor...

30 Jun 2023

How Asian co-operatives are championing sustainable development

News / Energy

Indonesia’s electric vehicle push relies on coal

...157 million tons of CO2 in 2019, or 27 per cent of national emissions. The sector consumes more energy than any other, accounting for 45.8 per cent of the national total in 2021, according to energy m...

4 Apr 2023

Indonesia’s electric vehicle push relies on coal

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

...10 billion annually through 2030 for climate infrastructure investment. That would be 12 per cent of the US$1.8 trillion of sustainable infrastructure investment needed annually through 2030 for emerg...

13 Oct 2023

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

News / Carbon & Climate

COP28 climate dispute: what are 'unabated' fossil fuels?

...1, to accelerate efforts "towards the phasedown of unabated coal power". Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Now, in the run-up to the COP28 conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Nov....

8 Nov 2023

COP28 climate dispute: what are 'unabated' fossil fuels?

News / Cities

Disaster deaths decline but damage rises on hotter planet

...15. But, it noted, economic losses caused by disasters remained high at an average of above US$330 billion per year between 2015 and 2021 - or 1 per cent of gross domestic product of the reporting cou...

26 May 2023

Disaster deaths decline but damage rises on hotter planet

Press Releases / UnaBiz

StorHub, GreenA Consultants and UnaBiz partner to achieve Green Certification for the largest portfolio of self storage facilities in Singapore

...1 Operation and Maintenance (“LEED v4.1 O+M” or “LEED”) certification for the largest collection of self storage facilities in Singapore. StorHub has partnered with GreenA Con...

19 Jan 2024

StorHub, GreenA Consultants and UnaBiz partner to achieve Green Certification for the largest portfolio of self storage facilities in Singapore

News / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis looms in Bangladesh due to degraded soil

...1 tons of urea (nitrogen) in 1980-81, which reached 1,183,024 tons in 2015-16. As a result, beneficial microorganisms in the soil are rapidly declining. Plants are not receiving necessary nutrients fr...

10 Jan 2023

Food crisis looms in Bangladesh due to degraded soil

Press Releases / Apical

Apical’s sustainable aviation fuels entry takes flight with Cepsa to build largest 2G biofuels plant in Southern Europe

...1 and 2 CO2 emissions by 55 per cent and its carbon intensity index by 15-20 per cent, with the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Bio-Oils was founded in 2005 to develop biofuels projects...

17 Apr 2023

Apical’s sustainable aviation fuels entry takes flight with Cepsa to build largest 2G biofuels plant in Southern Europe

Press Releases / EB Impact

EB Impact’s Sustainability Media Academy returns for the third edition

...187 1 Rochester Park, #03-01, Rochester Commons, Singapore 139212 About EB Impact EB Impact is a Singapore-registered nonprofit and sister organisation of Eco-Business, focuse...

17 Jul 2024

EB Impact’s Sustainability Media Academy returns for the third edition

News / Carbon & Climate

Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi

...10 species is likely to face a “very high” risk of extinction at 2C of global warming, the upper limit of the Paris Agreement. This rises to 12 per cent at 3C, 13 per cent at 4C and 15 per cent at 5C....

17 Oct 2023

Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi

News / Cities

Greta Thunberg's rise from youth activist to global climate leader

...19. April 19, 2021: Thunberg says her foundation will give 100,000 euros ($120,000) to the WHO Foundation to support the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme. November 2, 2021: Protesting outside the COP26 cl...

5 Jan 2023

Greta Thunberg's rise from youth activist to global climate leader

A shoe collection in an average household.

News / Waste

A door-to-door solution for donating unwanted items to charity has come to Singapore

...1 million households and works with 135 charities in 11 cities, and with more than 120 corporate partners, including ride-hailing firm Uber, pharmaceuticals company GSK and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

3 Jun 2023

A door-to-door solution for donating unwanted items to charity has come to Singapore

Press Releases / ESG Book

Companies make almost no progress on 1.5°C Paris goal since 2018

...1.5°C aligned in 2023, only a 1 percentage point improvement from 2018 (24 per cent). The US and China saw more notable progress, but from a lower baselines. In 2018, 11 per cent of the biggest U...

19 Jun 2023

Companies make almost no progress on 1.5°C Paris goal since 2018

News / Energy

Philippines raises minimum renewable energy capacity to 2.5% in power mix

...1 per cent to 2.5 per cent by 2023, the department of energy said in a statement. The current share of solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and biomass energy in the power generation mix is at 22 per c...

3 Oct 2022

Philippines raises minimum renewable energy capacity to 2.5% in power mix

Opinion / Policy & Finance

APEC faces up to the China challenge

...1 and 2 , respectively, since 2013. As China claims regional and global hegemony and the US seeks to avert Chinese challenges to its hegemony, APEC will be an integral aspect of their claims of holdin...

26 Oct 2023

APEC faces up to the China challenge

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why I think the US is the biggest bully and blocker of climate action

...1 Climate Leaders’ Summit convened by the Biden Administration, the US promised to mobilise US$11 billion Climate Finance for developing countries by 2024. However, in the fiscal year 2024 budget prop...

29 Sep 2023

Why I think the US is the biggest bully and blocker of climate action

News / Energy

World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar

...1,930 terawatt hours (TWh), up 12 per cent from 1,717TWh during the first half of 2022. This accounted for 14.3 per cent of global electricity generation overall, of which 5.5 per cent came from solar...

11 Oct 2023

World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar

A palm oil plantation next to tropical forests in Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

...18 study in the science journal Nature that found that 174 tonnes of carbon is lost per hectare of rainforest converted to plantation. Familiar tactics Indonesian palm oil lobbyists have deployed disi...

2 Aug 2023

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

News / Policy & Finance

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC

...18.1m hectares of land that have been targeted for large-scale acquisitions in Cambodia, Colombia and the DRC since 2000. The vast majority of this land – 14.2m hectares – is in the DRC, amounting to ...

14 Mar 2024

Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC

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