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From Athens to Delhi, soaring global temperatures are turning cities into infernos with deadly heatwaves putting lives and livelihoods at risk. Cities can be 5-10 degrees Celsius hotter than surroun...

27 Nov 2025

...carbon dioxide emissions, even as the country strives for carbon neutrality by 2050. Cement factories are among the top sources of Cambodia’s CO2 emissions, with four of the most polluting cement fact...

28 Apr 2025

...carbon credits. Under this deal, the three parties will support the origination and sale of transition credits to retire the 246-megawatt (MW) plant by 2030, a decade earlier than planned. In April, A...

16 Aug 2024

Asean Investment Forum 2025 strengthens regional momentum for inclusive, sustainable foreign direct investment

...carbonisation, smart manufacturing, health and life sciences, and renewable energy. The Forum also served as a platform for dialogue among investment promotion agencies, policymakers, and private-sect...

27 Oct 2025

...carbon credits to offset residual institutional emissions after “doing the hard work of using the carbon mitigation hierarchy of trying not to consume as much, making [operations] much more efficient ...

9 Jul 2024

Former Temasek chief executive Ho Ching has pushed back against the International Air Transport Association (IATA), saying the global aviation body is “wrong headed” in warning about Singapore’s new g...

27 Oct 2025

...carbon dioxide in 2020, according to estimates from the China Waterborne Transport Research Institute, a part of the Ministry of Transport. Between 2015 and 2020, the carbon intensity of Chinese shipp...

21 Aug 2024

...carbon credit exchange platform, Taiwan Carbon Solution Exchange (TCX). Current regulations now require large-scale factories and high-rise construction projects to offset their emissions by purchasin...

3 Oct 2024

Catholic bishops representing more than 800 million people across the Global South, for the first time in history, issued a joint statement demanding an “ambitious implementation” of the Paris Agreeme...

4 Jul 2025

Musim Mas smallholder plantation harvest

...carbon removals or offsets. SBTi's flip-flopping on plans to allow for the use of carbon offsets in the past few months has frustrated the business community. The leading targets validator is now seek...

12 Sep 2024

Narora Nuclear Power Plant near the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India : Sharada Prasad CS Sharada Prasad CS, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

...carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS). Notwithstanding the above advantages, coal is fast losing its sheen. Burning of coal is a leading contributor to air pollution and greenhouse gas emiss...

27 Jan 2025

...carbon budget just 10 days into the year and are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity. Oxfam has also outlined how the international chari...

15 Jan 2025

From internet shutdowns to the rise of AI, hyper-surveillance to protest via social media, digital technology is shaping lives and upending business as usual - for better and for worse. Experts say t...

22 Dec 2025

...carbon neutrality by 2060, direct emissions for heating in buildings could fall by 75 per cent to 70m tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) in 2050, due to increased electrification and improvements to ene...

26 Aug 2024

The Philippines is expected to include forestry sector targets in its updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to be announced at the upcoming United Nations climate talks, COP30, set to tak...

24 Oct 2025

TNFD discussion - Unlocking Capital for Sustainability Singapore

...Carbon Disclosure Project], which have already embedded environmental disclosure practices over many years.” Other industrial standard setters are following suit – the International Organisation for S...

24 Oct 2025

Philippine environment secretary Antonia Loyzaga at COP28

...Carbon neutral refers to balancing out the total amount of carbon emissions, typically with offsets, while net zero means no carbon was emitted from the start, so no carbon needs to be captured or off...

13 Sep 2024

...carbonise their economies and adapt to extreme weather caused by climate change. For years, some of the thorniest COP negotiations have centred on who should foot this climate bill. At COP29 in Baku, ...

21 Nov 2025

...carbon emissions and ensure that data centre growth aligns with the global drive towards decarbonisation. We address the complete lifecycle of data centres—from construction through operation to dec...

9 Oct 2024

UNDP and Republic of Korea launch global early recovery initiative for crisis-hit communities

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of the Republic of Korea today unveiled REVIVE – Relief, Employment and Vital Infrastructure for the Vulnerable in Emergen...

18 Jul 2025

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