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UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

...2025, adopted last year, UNEP acknowledges that securing higher contributions to the Environment Fund, as well as funding that is “only softly earmarked”, will be “indispensable” for UNEP to bring abo...

3 Jun 2022

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine addresses Davos 2022

News / Carbon & Climate

Overheard at Davos: climate leaders at the 2022 WEF annual meeting

...2025, and halve emissions by 2030. Given current trajectories, the world is heading for an overshoot. Meanwhile, fossil fuel demand is still soaring, with coal-fired power generation reaching an all-t...

1 Jun 2022

Overheard at Davos: climate leaders at the 2022 WEF annual meeting

News / Energy

Asia’s bet on gas looks increasingly risky

...2025, the International Energy Agency has forecast Asia’s emerging economies to be the second-largest growth market for LNG demand after China. (China and India were excluded from the emerging categor...

21 Apr 2022

Asia’s bet on gas looks increasingly risky

News / Waste

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

...2025 — unless the world changes its ways — these levels of pollution will have doubled. And, the researchers warn, the uncertain and as yet unknown effects of weathering on such volumes of plastic cou...

9 Jul 2021

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

News / Carbon & Climate

How can finance help China’s heavy industries decarbonise?

...2025 to 2030, highlighting uncertainties over its ability to slash emissions in the longer term. On February 7, guidance on developing the sector was jointly published by the ministries of industry an...

18 Apr 2022

How can finance help China’s heavy industries decarbonise?

News / Policy & Finance

Ensuring global Covid-19 vaccine access seen worth billions to rich nations

...2025, in an analysis based on IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts of varying vaccination scenarios. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the report, and said contributing to the ACT...

4 Dec 2020

Ensuring global Covid-19 vaccine access seen worth billions to rich nations

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore students rally against fossil fuel firms' interference in universities

...2025, amid controversy. “Should those who have profited off of the climate crisis—off of widespread suffering, death, injustice, and mass extinction—play any role in decisions about education?” said ...

17 Jan 2022

Singapore students rally against fossil fuel firms' interference in universities

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

...2025, said Lim, who declined to elaborate on production volumes. At industrial-scale production, the price of Bambara milk will be competitive against cow's milk and soy milk. Image: WhatIF Foods Th...

13 Jan 2021

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

News / Food & Agriculture

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

...2025. Reflecting its importance, the survey team will be headed by the vice premier of the State Council, Hu Chunhua, with deputy posts occupied by leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the...

4 Aug 2022

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

...2025. Recently, the APEC Economic Leaders have also reiterated their commitment towards tackling climate change by promoting sustainable financing and quality investment. And global institutions are j...

29 Sep 2021

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

Sophie's Bionutrients' milk made from microalgae

News / Food & Agriculture

In the race for planet-friendly milk, Singapore startup substitutes dairy with algae

...2025, and the market for dairy-free milk has grown 8 per cent every year over the past decade. Wang said that while the Covid-19 pandemic has raised interest in sustainability in Asia, there is still ...

6 May 2021

In the race for planet-friendly milk, Singapore startup substitutes dairy with algae

News / Carbon & Climate

Latest IPCC report prescribes renewables and nature-based solutions as key climate antidotes

...2025 and drop by over 40 per cent in 2030, before getting close to net-zero in 2050. Global output of methane, a short-lived but potent atmosphere warmer, will need to be cut by about a third. Over 10...

5 Apr 2022

Latest IPCC report prescribes renewables and nature-based solutions as key climate antidotes

Solar power in the state of Maharashtra in India

News / Carbon & Climate

Sustainability in the spotlight as India’s data centre industry balloons

...2025, and India is expected to account for 2.3 per cent of the total investments, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), a non-governmental trade associatio...

8 Dec 2021

Sustainability in the spotlight as India’s data centre industry balloons

News / Energy

Coal-powered industrial parks test Indonesia’s climate pledges — and China’s too

...2025. However, its most recent 10-year energy plan (2021–2030) indicates that it is still reliant on coal for 60 per cent of its power, while renewables currently make up just under 12 per cent of the...

31 Mar 2022

Coal-powered industrial parks test Indonesia’s climate pledges — and China’s too

News / Transport

Indonesia invites China as investor for extended high-speed railway

...2025. Japan vs China As an emerging Asian power, China wants a greater role in Indonesia – the largest country in Southeast Asia – according to one observer. “Japan and China … are trying to achieve h...

20 Jan 2021

Indonesia invites China as investor for extended high-speed railway

Opinion / Policy & Finance

If 'totemic' climate finance pledge is missed, developing nations should skip COP26

...2025, when a new, higher goal will be set. There needs to be an agreed mechanism for transparently tracking this money. Finally, it should not be forgotten that the amount of $100 billion is not at al...

17 Jun 2021

If 'totemic' climate finance pledge is missed, developing nations should skip COP26

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News / Lifestyle

China’s grand plans to push green consumption on all fronts

...2025, we hope more consumers will embrace the ethos of green spending, as well as curb waste and overconsumption. The market reach of green and low-carbon products should significantly increase too,” ...

7 Feb 2022

China’s grand plans to push green consumption on all fronts

News / Energy

Europe strives to end dependency on Russian gas

...2025,” said Anna Galtsova, a director at IHS Markit. Moreover, Verisk expects Russia to speed up its pivot to Asia by pushing forward discussions for a new China–Russia gas pipeline – Power of Siberia...

25 Apr 2022

Europe strives to end dependency on Russian gas

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How to avert a climate catastrophe

...2025. In essence, what was previously a regional challenge has now become a serious global governance issue with environmental, political, and economic ramifications. More broadly, other manifestation...

29 Sep 2021

How to avert a climate catastrophe

News / Waste

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows

...2025. The report also highlights the process of “chemical recycling,” which would turn plastics into fuel but leave a heavy carbon footprint. While very little chemical recycling currently takes place...

25 Oct 2021

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows

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