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Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

Relentless work, for no money: Southeast Asian climate scientists share their IPCC experience

...flooding, sea-level rise and extreme rainfall, for the 680 million people who call the region home. The report also emphasises repeatedly, that the window of opportunity to prepare ourselves is closin...

22 Mar 2022

Relentless work, for no money: Southeast Asian climate scientists share their IPCC experience

Press Releases / EB Impact

EB Impact’s Sustainability Exchange Season 2, Final Showcase

...flood resilient. The project does not just stop at building climate literacy. The aim is to encourage more bottom-up approaches when it comes to designing a city and aim to achieve this by engaging th...

31 May 2022

EB Impact’s Sustainability Exchange Season 2, Final Showcase

Kate Yeo addressing Singapore's environment minister Grace Fu at the COP27 climate talks. Image: Kate Yeo

News / Carbon & Climate

'You cannot be an activist and not put yourself at risk': Singapore climate campaigner Kate Yeo

...floods or pollution. Being at these international conferences has really opened my eyes to how multilateral processes are all about incremental change. It's one commitment at a time. There are so many...

11 Apr 2023

'You cannot be an activist and not put yourself at risk': Singapore climate campaigner Kate Yeo

News / Policy & Finance

Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

In October and November of 2020, a relentless barrage of nine typhoons and tropical storms slammed into Vietnam, setting off record floods and countless landslides. Nearly 200 people died, and propert...

24 May 2021

Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses) Rizal, Philippines2

News / Carbon & Climate

Duterte blames climate change for typhoons in the Philippines

...flooding in the region in 45 years”. Apart from the northeastern provinces in Luzon, the typhoon also ravaged Bicol, the southern part of the island, with landslides and floods that trapped residents ...

18 Nov 2020

Duterte blames climate change for typhoons in the Philippines

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Today’s disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia

...floods across NSW and Queensland. Indeed, it only turns this responsibility back to the current federal government, which has policies increasingly at odds with what the science and concerned citizens...

15 Mar 2022

Today’s disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia

News / Policy & Finance

Displacement of Indigenous hamlet shows Nepal’s dire conservation challenge

...floods. Each family was allotted a two-room hut in the buffer zone of the park, where neither agricultural activities nor the felling of trees is permitted. The new settlement was inaugurated by forme...

11 Apr 2022

Displacement of Indigenous hamlet shows Nepal’s dire conservation challenge

Opinion / Policy & Finance

No place for coal in a green finance hub

...floods, as well as higher average temperatures over the years. As a country that imports more than 90 per cent of the food consumed, Singapore also faces threats to its food supply when climate change...

6 Jul 2021

No place for coal in a green finance hub

volunteer firefighter uses a tree branch to extinguish fires in Pulang Pisau

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat linked to rising deaths in tropical forest communities

...flood protection. Last year, an area of tropical forest the size of the Netherlands was lost, according to monitoring service Global Forest Watch. Palm oil Berau in East Kalimantan — the focus of the ...

12 Nov 2021

Extreme heat linked to rising deaths in tropical forest communities

Opinion / Water

Righting the injustice of Africa's water crisis

...flooding but will also cause more frequent and extreme drought in many areas. This means reduced access to drinking water in a region where one in every three people already face water scarcity daily....

10 Feb 2022

Righting the injustice of Africa's water crisis

News / Water

How the Poyang Lake drought is affecting migratory birds

...flood in 2020. Higher water levels mean less light for submerged aquatic plants, which then grow less. Even though autumn and winter water levels were normal those years, the plants hadn’t sprouted an...

16 Jan 2023

How the Poyang Lake drought is affecting migratory birds

News / Food & Agriculture

Planning and planting future forests with climate change in mind

...flood risks, and floods drag dust and dirt to downstream water systems, which can clog pipes and strain treatment systems. “ It’s just a vicious vortex that arises when trees are maladapted because ...

9 Jun 2021

Planning and planting future forests with climate change in mind

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

...flooded with palm oil, driving down prices for producers, including the small farmers who grow much of the palm fruit that’s processed into oil, according to Henry Saragih, chairman of the Indonesian ...

27 Apr 2022

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

New frontiers in climate-risk analytics

...flooding, the timing and geographic scale of hazards and their impact, and the effectiveness of adaptation. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to pricing in climate-related ris...

28 Jun 2021

New frontiers in climate-risk analytics

News / Cities

Indigenous knowledge vital in conservation of Nepal's tigers

...flood plains. However, some Indigenous groups, such as the Tharu, lived with the disease and the tigers, and still thrived. By the second half of the 20th century, all that changed when the government...

5 Jul 2022

Indigenous knowledge vital in conservation of Nepal's tigers

News / Energy

Water-powered generators bring electricity to Nagaland

...flooding to some regions of Nagaland. “We factor in local knowledge during installation, and divert water away from the stream by a small weir,” says Imchen. “In case of a flash flood, the installatio...

28 Sep 2021

Water-powered generators bring electricity to Nagaland

Press Releases / The Liveability Challenge

Fairventures Social Forestry wins S$1 million prize in The Liveability Challenge to scale social forestry model

...floods have cost the region’s cities billions and disrupted millions of lives, heightening the need for climate action. Studies have shown that creating a carbon-light economy has multipl...

9 Jun 2022

Fairventures Social Forestry wins S$1 million prize in The Liveability Challenge to scale social forestry model

News / Policy & Finance

Climate chaos batters global insurance industry

...floods in China cost US$32 billion, while extended rains in India cost US$10bn. Cyclone Amphan, which in May hit the Bay of Bengal region – one of the world’s most densely populated areas – caused los...

14 Jan 2021

Climate chaos batters global insurance industry

News / Energy

Keeping digitalisation green: APAC governments hold key to unlocking renewables’ vast potential

...floods occur every once in 100 to 200 years, when in facts these extreme weather events are affecting nations every 10-20 years. She explained that these mechanisms are new and a lot of upskilling wit...

5 Aug 2022

Keeping digitalisation green: APAC governments hold key to unlocking renewables’ vast potential

Clover Hogan, climate activist, speaking in 2019

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

'The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious. It's that people in positions of power are not': activist Clover Hogan

...floods of tears, because it is every childhood nightmare come to fruition, standing on a stage and being booed and pointed at by people 30 years my senior drinking champagne. Someone messaged afterwar...

12 Jul 2024

'The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious. It's that people in positions of power are not': activist Clover Hogan

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