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...1,833 companies handed in enough allowances from July to December 2021 to cover their emissions for 2019 and 2020, while 178 firms partly covered their emissions, the MEE said. The compliance rate of ...

5 Sep 2023

...14 million deaths and US$12.5 trillion in loss and damages. Currently we cannot fully explain why global temperatures have been so high for the past 18 months. Changes in dust, soot and other aerosols...

28 Aug 2024

...1 billion (US$0.7 billion) plan to help the reef. This plan tackles some of the problems the reef faces – like poor water quality from floods as well as agricultural and industrial runoff. But it make...

17 May 2022

...16 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report using Indonesia as a case study demonstrated that the country made 14 attempts at subsidy reform since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis but each ti...

12 Apr 2023

...1, renewables alone had already generated 12.7 million jobs, a third of them in the solar photovoltaics industry, according to an annual review by the International Labour Organization and Internation...

2 May 2023

...100 billion-a-year climate funding agreement for developing nations struck last decade, grants made up about 20 per cent of all transfers between 2016 and 2020, according to a tally by the Organisatio...

31 Aug 2023

...1 May 2023. Even though the increased stringency of energy conservation clauses is likely to make our homes more climate resilient, the new code does not include explicit provisions to support climate...

14 Mar 2023

...100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. Though it appears to be a large investment, US$100 billion per year is, in fact, a modest amount, compared to the total required...

17 Feb 2023

...13-year-old son in school. While Pemba Sherpa received 1.5 million Nepali rupees (US$11,312) in life insurance after Tshering's death - as is mandated by law - she said the sum was inadequate give...

17 Feb 2023

...1961. What should have been the flood season for the Yangtze basin became a record-setting drought. Water levels in Dongting and Poyang lakes dropped several metres lower than expected for the time of...

13 Oct 2022

Coal power plant in Jepara, central Java, Indonesia

...11 to US$12 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, according to the model. The economics of retiring a one-gigawatt Indonesian coal-fired power plant with 15 years remaining in its power purchase ag...

3 Oct 2023

The Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1M in funding for the most game-changing sustainability innovation solutions

...14 January to 1 April 2022, and can be submitted via the official website of The Liveability Challenge (https://www.theliveabilitychallenge.org/). “The Liveability Challenge has been buil...

14 Jan 2022

...14m by the end of this year. This would amount to 18 per cent of global car sales in 2023, up from 14 per cent a year earlier and just 1 per cent in 2017. On this trajectory, these vehicles will have...

27 Apr 2023

...144 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) crude steel capacity and 210 gigawatts (GW) of coal-based power capacity, are relatively young, with an age of less than 15 years and cannot be disregarded or aband...

7 Jun 2023

...1 per cent of aviation fuels in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency. "We have to admit to ourselves ... sustainable fuels are not going to get us on the decarbonisation path that we nee...

17 Jan 2023

Aerial view of HK central business district

...10 per cent of the whole sustainable bond market”, despite ICMA's Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles being introduced just two years ago, he said. What is a sustainability-linked bond? A sustaina...

11 Feb 2023

...18 months, but that level of scrutiny is unlikely to play out in Asia – at least not yet. It will take time for rules that require Asian firms to disclose their impact to have an impact in driving acc...

10 Feb 2023

...15 core disclosure metrics relating to risk and opportunities. Source: TNFD v0.4 framework The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework's 10 of 15 core disclosure metrics relating...

21 Aug 2023

...1.1C above pre-industrial times and is on track to breach 1.5C - a threshold for ever more disastrous impacts - between 2030 and 2035 on current trends. The Paris Agreement seeks to limit warming to ...

28 Mar 2023

Ceasing financing for new coal-fired power plants has become mainstream among the Singaporean banking giants, ever since OCBC became the first Southeast Asian bank to do so in 2019. Rivals DBS and UOB...

31 May 2023

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