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UN climate summit set for tough negotiations in final week

...2025, half of which has already been committed by the bank. The Global Centre on Adaptation estimates that the costs of adaptation on the continent will total $50 billion per year by 2050, even if the...

14 Nov 2022

UN climate summit set for tough negotiations in final week

News / Corporate Responsibility

Singtel hires Lee Hui Mien from Mandai Park to lead environmental sustainability

...2025. She will start on 20 September, and report to Singtel's vice president of group sustainability, Andrew Buay. Before her role at Mandai Park, Lee led the sustainability function for IKEA Southeas...

13 Sep 2021

Singtel hires Lee Hui Mien from Mandai Park to lead environmental sustainability

News / Carbon & Climate

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

...2025 (ACT2025), which comprises think tanks based in several climate-vulnerable countries including Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines. “With so much at stake, co...

7 Oct 2021

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

News / Carbon & Climate

A year on, China's national carbon market still plagued by serious data issues and delays

...2025. “For now, the other hard-to-abate sectors would have to wait (before they are covered by the ETS). The situation is also not peculiar to China. We are seeing a lot of complexities in the energy...

30 Aug 2022

A year on, China's national carbon market still plagued by serious data issues and delays

Brazilian indigenous activist at the opening of COP26

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate justice requires women's leadership

...2025. The Berlin Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development states that environmental education must be available to girls and boys alike from an early age to ensure that future generations ...

25 Mar 2022

Climate justice requires women's leadership

Floating solar panels on Srinakarin lake, Thailand.

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia's economy could grow by US$12.5 trillion by 2070 if the fossil fuel-dependent region decarbonises

...2025 and 2030, according to International Energy Agency analysis. Industries including manufacturing, retail, tourism, manufacturing, construction, transport, agriculture, water and utilities could se...

25 Aug 2021

Southeast Asia's economy could grow by US$12.5 trillion by 2070 if the fossil fuel-dependent region decarbonises

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

...2025 to support their forest tenure rights. Forest stewards In recent years, many studies have shown that granting land rights to indigenous peoples is a particularly cost-effective approach to combat...

28 Jun 2022

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Fixing our failing food systems

...2025, we must measure progress in months, not years – and COP26 largely relegated food systems to the sidelines. In UN climate negotiations, coal, cars, trees, cement, steel and cash – continue to cap...

6 Apr 2022

Fixing our failing food systems

News / Waste

No trash goes to waste on Greek islands racing to recycle

...2025 and 65 per cent by 2035. Greece has taken some steps against throwaway culture, such as making stores charge customers for single-use plastic bags. Still, "we are quite backward when it comes to ...

29 Aug 2022

No trash goes to waste on Greek islands racing to recycle

News / Waste

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

...2025, the global market for the K-Cup and other kinds of coffee capsules is expected to be worth more than $29 billion. More than 40 per cent of US households owned a coffee pod machine in 2020, and i...

23 Dec 2022

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

News / Corporate Responsibility

Grab hires Wildlife Reserves Singapore sustainability executive Foo Wan Xuan

...2025. Over her career, Foo has also worked as a wildlife consultant for Mastermark, a firm that manages wildlife strike risk at Singapore's aerodromes.

17 Jun 2021

Grab hires Wildlife Reserves Singapore sustainability executive Foo Wan Xuan

News / Carbon & Climate

China to cut energy intensity, but no consumption cap in new 5-year plan

...2025 document also published on Friday, disappointing analysts. "There's no guarantee that emissions growth will slow down, let alone stop, by 2025," said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst with the Helsi...

8 Mar 2021

China to cut energy intensity, but no consumption cap in new 5-year plan

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?

...2025 and eliminate, phase out or reform them by 2030 – including a numerical target to reduce the incentives by at least US$500bn per year by the end of the decade. The target adds that this should be...

30 May 2023

Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?

News / Policy & Finance

COP15: Whose business is nature anyway?

...2025. Pledges made so far include a 1.5 billion yuan ($233 million) fund for biodiversity protection in developing countries announced by China’s President Xi Jinping during the first part of COP15, w...

15 Dec 2022

COP15: Whose business is nature anyway?

Women selling vegetables at a market in Kenya.

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Perfect storm’ created for food collapse, panel hears

...2025. “We must promote more sustainable, productive and regenerative agriculture and use the one health approach — plant health, environmental health and human health,” Jerome added. “The pandemic has...

30 Nov 2021

‘Perfect storm’ created for food collapse, panel hears

Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas

News / Policy & Finance

Reality check needed on finance to keep people safe in a warming world

...2025 - the year a new overall finance goal is due to be agreed - or simply commit to reaching the "balance" mentioned in the Paris pact. A spokesman for Britain's COP26 team noted advances had been ma...

5 Oct 2021

Reality check needed on finance to keep people safe in a warming world

News / Policy & Finance

What is happening to Pakistan’s green stimulus?

...2025, according to the UN. “It seems that climate solutions have been reduced to tree plantation only.” This story was published with permission from The Third Pole.

31 May 2022

What is happening to Pakistan’s green stimulus?

Singapore's first climate rally, in 2019

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore youth groups call on government for bolder climate action

...2025 and adopt a 2050 net zero target — which numerous other countries have done to align with the Paris Agreement on climate change. To date, Singapore has committed to reach net zero emissions "as s...

5 Nov 2021

Singapore youth groups call on government for bolder climate action

News / Transport

Nepal choking on diesel fumes

...2025 at least 25 per cent of all private passenger vehicles sales and 20 per cent of all public transport vehicles will be electric-powered, the commitments say. “The concept of climate-resilient econ...

11 Jan 2022

Nepal choking on diesel fumes

News / Cities

Jungle in heart of Malaysia's capital hunts corporate cash to thrive

...2025, while palm-oil buyers Nestle and PepsiCo are supporting a scheme to invest $1 billion in forest conservation in Southeast Asia over 25 years. Furthermore, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamb...

15 Jul 2022

Jungle in heart of Malaysia's capital hunts corporate cash to thrive

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