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An advertising for City Energy in Singapore, promoting natural gas-powered water heaters as "greener"

...2025 as one of the measures needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. City Energy's messaging is ambiguous as the poster does not clearly state where the 'green' part of the messaging is relevant ...

19 Sep 2023

...2025, solar power will become the cheapest energy source for the country, the report said. Chowdhury said recently approved independent solar photovoltaic (PV) projects have a tariff of less than 10...

22 Jan 2024

...2025. Previous studies have stated that billions of dollars a year is needed for developing countries to both protect themselves and recover from increasingly severe storms, floods and droughts. At th...

4 Dec 2023

...2025, will provide rebates of S$0.10 ( US$0.075 per plastic bottle or metal can returned – nearly six times the amount offered in Hong Kong’s PRS. The city-state deployed reverse vending machines in 2...

19 Jan 2024

...2025, compared to 2020 figures. By late 2023, coking furnaces under 4.3 metres in height had been phased out in Shanxi, as taller furnaces are more energy-efficient and less polluting. In addition, Sh...

8 Feb 2024

...2025. What is being learned could also help deal with the need to cut planet-heating emissions in other economic sectors, including forestry, agriculture and transport, he added. Manal Shehabi, a rese...

21 Dec 2023

Asean pushes for inclusive business models for sustainable growth

...2025. Incoming Asean chair Lao PDR announced that the Seventh Asean IB Summit will be organised in 2024.

5 Sep 2023

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

...2025 and 2027, respectively. This will require businesses to be more efficient in their reporting processes. Technology investments – including automation – for robust ESG data collection,...

19 Nov 2023

...2025. Even when money is short for longer-term adaptation, resilience experts say providing aid in the run-up to a disaster can reduce the need for food and other emergency relief later. In Somalia, w...

12 Dec 2023

Farmers using solar conduction dryer S4S Technologies Earthshot Prize

...2025, and in the year after, reduce food waste by a total of 1.2 million tonnes. Nidhi Pant, 29, is a co-founder of S4S Technologies, one of the 2023 winners of UK's Earthshot Prize. Image: LinkedIn/...

17 Nov 2023

...2025 would be insufficient given the scale of climate risks today. A United Nations report last month had said that developing countries need 10 to 18 times more adaptation finance than what is curre...

8 Dec 2023

...2025 data. The taskforce anticipates more companies will follow suit in the coming weeks. It said it will reveal a list of early adopters who have indicated their intention to adopt the new recommenda...

19 Sep 2023

...2025. Germany, which is the world's second-biggest donor after the United States, is also considering reductions to its overseas humanitarian budget. British aid cuts The potential cutbacks from majo...

22 Aug 2023

...2025, at the time when China has committed to start reducing its coal consumption. China's quarterly CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2. Emissions are estimated based o...

17 Aug 2023

...2025. The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries said on Oct. 4 that it had budgeted 1.03 billion rupiah ($67,600) to pay 1,721 fishers across the archipelago for any plastic trash they collected da...

18 Oct 2022

...2025, but Haque says this has been derailed by factors including the pandemic. A new target of 2029 has now been proposed. The Third Pole speaks to Abdus Salam, a professor of atmospheric chemistry ...

8 Jan 2024

A steel manufacturing plants in Indonesia

...2025, up from 20 million tons in 2019. The country is already the fourth-largest cement producer in the world, and its production capacity is expected to increase further in the coming years. “ Decar...

27 Oct 2023

...2025 – and close coals plants showed "how embedded the transition has now become" for Southeast Asia's largest economy. Ember's data emerges as Indonesia's capital Jakarta was ranked the world's most ...

5 Sep 2023

...2025. Wong’s budget included funding for areas such as improving Singapore’s broadband telecommunications network to be 10 times faster in a few years, and S$1 billion for developing the country’s ar...

17 Feb 2024

Plastic waste clogging a beach head in Jakarta

...2025. Mandatory rules and polluters pay Countries like Indonesia need an urgent strategic build-up of the waste sector, financed by industry, to treat plastic addiction. Even though extended producer...

29 Sep 2023

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