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Opinion / Waste

Single-use cup charge as 'springboard' to reduce plastic waste in pandemic times

...2025. In June 2020, Lotte Mart also announced their plans for cutting single-use plastic by 50 per cent before 2025. This is the first supermarket chain in Asia to make such a commitment, and such mov...

24 Jan 2022

Single-use cup charge as 'springboard' to reduce plastic waste in pandemic times

Research / WWF-Singapore

Delivering on circularity - feasibility study for reusable e-commerce packaging in Singapore

...2025. But packaging required for e-commerce delivery is not environmentally friendly and the waste it creates is likely to increase in the next few years. This project aims to study the feasibility of...

28 Dec 2021

Delivering on circularity - feasibility study for reusable e-commerce packaging in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

Britain's foreign aid: Where does the money go?

...2025. Aid and justice groups say the shortfall would be a huge blow to poorer countries as they struggle to recover from the pandemic and grapple with a global cost-of-living crisis exacerbated by the...

24 Nov 2022

Britain's foreign aid: Where does the money go?

A man carries a sign asking world leaders to stop fossil fuels, COP26

News / Carbon & Climate

COP26 draft text criticised for lack of commitment to fossil fuel phase-out

...2025 being deliberated In the 800-word draft text published overnight, before climate talks enter its final stretch on Wednesday, several key issues were underlined, including the need to recognise t...

10 Nov 2021

COP26 draft text criticised for lack of commitment to fossil fuel phase-out

News / Carbon & Climate

Amazon palm oil: sustainable fuel or deforestation driver?

...2025, the venture could produce up to 500 million litres of diesel per year. To reach this volume of production, BBF plans to plant 120,000 hectares of oil palm by 2026, in areas yet to be defined. Th...

24 May 2022

Amazon palm oil: sustainable fuel or deforestation driver?

News / Carbon & Climate

Disappointing climate promises from China ‘cast a shadow’ on COP efforts

...2025.” Under China’s official filing with the United Nations climate secretariat, just days before the COP, “emissions would peak by 2030 and be reduced to net-zero three decades later,” The Guardian ...

29 Oct 2021

Disappointing climate promises from China ‘cast a shadow’ on COP efforts

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Urban farming taking root in Malaysia

...2025. The programme promotes private-sector cooperation with paddy owners. It sets out to improve Malaysia’s rice self-sufficiency by using a modern agricultural approach and efficient management to ...

31 Mar 2022

Urban farming taking root in Malaysia

News / Waste

China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’

...2025, as will a first batch of environmental risk assessments. “The action plan reflects a prevention-first approach to environmental risks,” said Liu Jianguo, an associate professor at Peking Univers...

12 Aug 2022

China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’

News / Energy

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

...2025 is set to add more than 250bn cubic metres (bcm) of new annual “liquefaction” capacity by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This is equivalent to increasing existing glob...

7 Mar 2024

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

News / Energy

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis underscores its addiction to coal

...2025. And while the government announced a plan to retire 9.2 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants by 2030 at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last November, it still plans to build 13.8 GW of new ...

10 Jan 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis underscores its addiction to coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

...2025 and achieve its Paris Agreement commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 29 per cent by 2030. It also has a longer-term plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. The Intergovernmental ...

29 Oct 2021

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Against the odds: pursuing another chance for green recovery in ASEAN

...2025 specifies a 23 per cent share of renewables in the total primary energy supply by 2025. This is to be achieved by increasing the share of renewables in installed power capacity by 35 per cent fro...

14 Feb 2022

Against the odds: pursuing another chance for green recovery in ASEAN

News / Policy & Finance

‘Global surge’ in investment needed to adapt to climate change, warns UN

...2025. Governments committed to doing so in the outcome of last year’s COP26 climate talks, the Glasgow Climate Pact. Red tape The amount pledged by the richest to the poorest equates to as little as ...

8 Nov 2022

‘Global surge’ in investment needed to adapt to climate change, warns UN

News / Energy

What next for clean heating in rural China?

...2025 target for non-electrical sources of heating, such as geothermal, biofuel-powered district heating, household biofuel burning, and solar, to provide the equivalent of 60 million tonnes of coal in...

29 May 2023

What next for clean heating in rural China?

News / Policy & Finance

How can China contribute to climate ‘loss and damage’?

...2025 when countries need to discuss new financing arrangements from developed to developing countries and draft new climate plans (known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs). He calls it a...

22 Dec 2022

How can China contribute to climate ‘loss and damage’?

News / Manufacturing

Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?

...2025. One action that BASF could take to close the certification gap is supporting smallholders, who grow oil palm on land less than 50 hectares in area. The company’s palm commitment does acknowledge...

1 Sep 2022

Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?

News / Carbon & Climate

COP26: is finance for climate action ‘flowing’?

...2025, leaving climate-vulnerable countries out of pocket a total of $68-75 billion between 2020 and 2025. Despite a doubling of US finance subsequently announced at the UN General Assembly in Septembe...

22 Oct 2021

COP26: is finance for climate action ‘flowing’?

News / Food & Agriculture

How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

...2025. About 70 per cent of the country's total area is agricultural land, but currently, only a little more than 3 per cent of British land is used for some form of agroforestry, according to Paul...

4 Nov 2022

How mixing farms with forests can help the UK reach net zero

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia’s new climate plan: slow progress but change imminent

...2025, and 25 per cent in 2050. This contradicts the recommendation from the UN’s climate science body to reduce coal in the electricity sector by 80 per cent from 2010 levels by 2030, and a complete p...

20 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s new climate plan: slow progress but change imminent

News / Cities

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

...2025. But efforts could be sabotaged by increased coal activity in these regions. Shanxi was told to increase coal output late last year amid an energy crunch driven by coal supply shortages and stron...

25 Jan 2022

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

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