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

...1 per cent of business leaders have reported at least a moderate improvement since adopting automation for ESG management, with 13 per cent experiencing a significant improvement in productivity. Desp...

19 Nov 2023

...18 per cent. An analysis by Mercy Corps found that the 10 most fragile states received less than 1 per cent of total climate adaptation finance in 2021, amounting to just US$223 million. That year, in...

12 Dec 2023

...11, workers slowed down and demonstrations cost Batam US$10 million in revenue. This civil disturbance repeats itself every year, resulting in some investors leaving Batam completely. This is detrimen...

25 Sep 2023

With a livestock population exceeding 535 million, India boasts the world's largest farmed animal population.

...1.5ºC global warming scenario, which is alarmingly close, models predict over 100 days of extreme heat annually, posing risks to both animals and humans,” adds the researcher. India's livestock conund...

25 Sep 2023

...1). Its total dependency ratio (the number of people below 15 years old plus those aged 65 years and older, divided by those aged 15 to 64 years) was 47.2 per cent in 2022. This ratio is expected to r...

25 Sep 2023

Upland farming near Lake Sebu, Philippines

...1 metric ton per month, but now they only have 1 hectare (2.5 acres) left, and the yield is significantly reduced. “You can no longer benefit from them because they die. Once the mother plant is infec...

8 Aug 2023

...1.03 billion rupiah ($67,600) to pay 1,721 fishers across the archipelago for any plastic trash they collected daily from Oct. 1-26. It said the money, which works out to about 150,000 rupiah ($10) pe...

18 Oct 2022

...1991-2018, oases gardens on Jabal Akhdar lost between 18 per cent and 75 per cent of winter chill hours, according to a 2020 study by Bürkert, with the greatest declines at higher elevations. In an ea...

25 Jun 2024

BlackRock-SGX launch of climate action ETF

...1 and US$10 billion, compared to large-cap companies which exceed US$10 billion in market value. Asia, excluding Japan, is estimated to be home to more than 19,000 listed companies in the small- and m...

15 Sep 2023

...1 and Scope 2 emissions, before proceeding to tackle the more complex Scope 3 emissions.In 2021, CJ Century started tracking and disclosing carbon emissions under Scope 1 (which consist direct carbon ...

11 Apr 2023

...1, Nable was responsible for enhancing Meralco’s environment, social and governance (ESG) transparency by aligning the company’s sustainability disclosure with globally-recognised ESG reporting standa...

22 Mar 2023

...15.7 GW, 17 per cent above additions in 2021. The additional capacity is comparable to the size of the UK’s entire solar capacity as of 2021. Coal capacity additions amounted to less than 1 GW, 78 per...

22 Mar 2023

...10 km (190 miles) southeast of Johannesburg, used to support her younger brother's studies. But with his sister no longer able to work, he had to quit his civil engineering course and is now unemploye...

14 May 2024

...1 million hectares (10.1 million acres) of primary rainforest – an area roughly the size of Switzerland – at a rate equivalent to 11 football pitches a minute. This represents a ten per cent increase ...

12 Jul 2023

...11,000 MRFs in the country as of 2021, catering to around 40 per cent, or 16,418 out of the total 42,046 barangays, based on the latest data from the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC)...

9 Jan 2024

...13 with the aim of addressing ocean plastic pollution and poverty. With an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastic waste entering the oceans each year – a number that might triple by 2040 without inter...

21 Oct 2024

...16, when roughly 4,760 hectares (11,760 acres) were cleared, although Global Forest Watch data show that 2023 was the second-worst year on record, with some 4,560 hectares (11,270 acres) of forest cov...

19 Jul 2024

...1.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared to the global average of 1.1 tonnes of CO2 – even as some nations have cut emissions significantly by reducing fossil fuels and powering up renewables. Japan's ...

5 Sep 2023

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

...189 years to close the gender gap in East Asia and the Pacific and 149 years in South Asia, against a global estimate of 131 years[1]. With a diversity of challenges and pressures compounding, and wom...

5 Sep 2023

...19 - has had a slow start, with local media reporting that no funds had been received or disbursed for green projects by early 2021. However, the US-based Ford Foundation provided $1 million in grant...

23 Sep 2022

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