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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

...1.7 billion last year from $3 billion in 2014, they are still higher than support for renewables, which stood at about $1 billion last year, up from $0.6 billion in 2014, said the study Aggarwal co-au...

24 Jun 2022

...100,000 hectares of rainforest. Providing farmers with a sustainable livelihood removes the incentive to cut trees. “If companies really want to source 100 per cent zero-deforestation palm oil, they h...

30 Aug 2022

EDC teams up with IBM to help keep its workforce safe from extreme weather events

...1 included the Philippines as among the countries affected by recurring catastrophes [1], and the Asian Development Bank estimates that the Philippines stands to lose 6% of its GDP annually by 2100 if...

2 Dec 2021

...11,000 consumers and business leaders across 15 markets found that 88 per cent of business leaders believe organisations that use technology to help drive sustainability and social issues will be the ...

29 Aug 2022

...1 million Indian rupees ($12,887) each, said homemaker Devi, who now lives with her family in a nearby village. Sandeep Gupta, assistant general manager of the THDC project, said Haat residents had al...

1 Jun 2022

Forests in an island in Langkawi in northern Malaysia

...13 in Geneva, Switzerland, and will continue through March 29. Later this year, more than 190 countries are expected to sign onto the framework, which is a strategy to protect species through 2030, at...

14 Mar 2022

How SF6 alternatives, digital technologies combine to empower electricity decarbonisation, efficiency

...100,000 customers in Grenoble!), EEC Engie in New Caledonia and E.ON in Sweden. “SF6-free switchgear is identical to the previous version. At the technical level, there is no change. These new ...

12 Oct 2022

...15 of its facilities, including the carrier-neutral SV11 opened in San Jose in 2021, which utilises 4 megawatts (MW) of fuel cells for primary power production on site and can scale up to 20 MW of fue...

5 Jul 2022

Energy Development Corporation partners with DXC Technology, LiteHaus International to bring digitalisation to Kidapawan schools

...18 public schools with a total of 300 laptops being made accessible to close to 10,000 students in Kidapawan, a remote southern Philippines city about 1,404 kilometres from Manila where EDC’s Mi...

17 Mar 2023

Jovie Montajes, founder of Light of Hope PH

...16,120 smartphones. Montajes is aiming to raise enough to fund 1,000 units by the end of the year for remote areas of Cebu, the nearby province of Bohol and communities in Mindanao.

6 Jul 2022

...1. Other voluntary palm oil sustainability certification schemes include the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification. “What is happening now is that companies are having to put together ...

16 Mar 2023

IES celebrates 56th annual dinner with launch of Green Plan 2030

...1 (TPP1): Reclamation, Wharf Construction & Dredging Project by Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte. Ltd. (SJC) HaptGlove – Wireless Pneumati...

20 Feb 2023

...15 years: in 2007, 2008, 2018, and mid-2021. In July 2021, PLN’s power plants had less than 10 days’ worth of coal. This prompted the government to issue a coal export ban for 34 companies in August. ...

10 Jan 2022

...140 million euros (US$152 million) to Portugal and more than 400 million euros to banks and other entities. The debt-for-nature swap negotiated with Portugal would see an initial 12 million euros of s...

20 Feb 2023

Malaysian fisherman planting mangrove saplings

...1 million hectares between 1990 and 2020, although the rate of loss has slowed in recent years, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Retired Malaysian fisherman Ilias Shafie gestures as he ...

25 Jan 2022

...106 GW of new coal power capacity, the highest since 2015, and retired just 4.1 GW, down from 5.2 GW in 2021. Seb Kennedy is head of data insights at TransitionZero, a London-based climate analytics f...

2 Mar 2023

...17 survey by the Indonesia National Plastic Action Partnership. Only 10 per cent of that waste was recycled in the approximately 1,300 recycling centres operating in the country, while nearly the same...

7 Sep 2022

Rainforest in Papua province, Indonesia.

...10, and the moratorium started in 2011,” the researchers said. “The moratorium has been operating since 2011 until 2021 without interruption, and hence it could be argued that Norway ought to be payin...

17 Mar 2022

...100.6 million barrels of oil equivalent a day (mobe/d) compared to 88.3 mobe/d in 2021. This view was echoed by Saudi Arabian state oil producer Saudi Aramco, whose president and chief executive offic...

28 Jun 2023

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