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News / Corporate Responsibility

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

...t commit to sustainability. We just felt that that was the right thing to do. We felt that the building sector had a high environmental impact, and we couldn’t continue this model for long. We took a ...

3 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Esther An, CDL's ubiquitous partnership builder

News / Carbon & Climate

From tipping cascades to exponential curves: 5 things we learned at Ecosperity 2019

...time to meet the 12-year deadline set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis? The ebullient Costa Rican was charasterically forthright...

12 Jun 2019

From tipping cascades to exponential curves: 5 things we learned at Ecosperity 2019

News / Manufacturing

'Perfect time' for ethical businesses to drive social change

...t to products that seek to improve the world. "For-profits create the mess, and then the not-for-profits clean it up," said Andrew O'Brien, director of external affairs at SEUK, which estimates that 2...

16 Nov 2018

'Perfect time' for ethical businesses to drive social change

Press Releases / Sustainability Knowledge Group

Sustainability Knowledge Group and Philanthropy U join forces for good

...ted to strategic stakeholder engagement. The course titled “Stakeholder Engagement Strategy” will touch upon all key stages of strategic stakeholder management and will guide participants ...

19 Apr 2019

Sustainability Knowledge Group and Philanthropy U join forces for good

Greenpeace activists paint "Stop Deforestation Now" onto the hull of a palm oil tanker at the Wilmar International refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi.

News / Food & Agriculture

Wilmar aims for deforestation-free supply chain by 2020 after protests

...tancy The Forest Trust, whose chief executive Bastien Sachet said in a statement that "a tough road lies ahead" to achieve the commitments. Wilmar said it would pursue the plan is three ways—use sate...

6 Oct 2018

Wilmar aims for deforestation-free supply chain by 2020 after protests

News / Waste

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

...tor of the e-waste programme at the United Nations University (UNU) told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The UNU estimates 50 million tonnes of e-waste is produced annually. It expects this to hit 120...

30 Jan 2019

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

News / Carbon & Climate

As protests rock Chile, COP25 move shines a spotlight on inequality

...t” to Chilean civil society which had called on the government to withdraw the military from the streets before hosting the climate talks. “It is a sign that the government does not recognise that the...

5 Nov 2019

As protests rock Chile, COP25 move shines a spotlight on inequality

Opinion / Green Buildings

Buildings are an ideal but overlooked climate solution

...together with private sector innovation: that's how we break the status quo and turn the climate paradox that is the buildings sector today into the leading climate solution it ought to be. Emma Stewa...

5 Nov 2019

Buildings are an ideal but overlooked climate solution

worker burns slipper at brick kiln factory in Pakistan

News / Carbon & Climate

As Lahore chokes on winter smog, Pakistan moves to cut air pollution

...the city's air quality monitors, with the data feeding into the city's own air quality index. That index, updated daily, is posted for public use on the Environmental Protection Department's website. ...

8 Jan 2019

As Lahore chokes on winter smog, Pakistan moves to cut air pollution

News / Carbon & Climate

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

...t the WHO's air quality guidlines, with the poorer eastern and southern parts of the continuent suffering from the worst quality air. In the United States, famed for the Nixon-era Clean Air Act that i...

25 Feb 2020

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

Minister for National Development, Lawrence Wong, opens the inaugural International Built Environment Week in Singapore in September 2019.

News / Green Buildings

Which comes first for green buildings: technology transformation or cultural change?

...that the entire company, from the top to the bottom, understands exactly what it has set out to achieve. "If the mindset from the top of the organisation doesn't believe digitisation is going to help,...

11 Sep 2019

Which comes first for green buildings: technology transformation or cultural change?

News / Carbon & Climate

As winter bites, air pollution in India and Pakistan gets ‘crazy bad’

...The pollution is so bad in the northern Pakistan city that it has affected the power supply in the region, with power plants closing due to the heavy smog, leaving many communities without electricity...

4 Jan 2019

As winter bites, air pollution in India and Pakistan gets ‘crazy bad’

Rabobank Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

Rabobank sustainability chief: We need to weed out green bonds greenwash

...the highest opportunity cost. The sources of capital [for coal] are getting smaller as more banks exit, meaning that the cost of capital will rise. So the banks that stay in that game the longest will...

23 Apr 2019

Rabobank sustainability chief: We need to weed out green bonds greenwash

Opinion / Cities

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

...ta it will need to collect to measure improvements in equity (e.g. ratio of access between black and white residents over time) to ensure that the city is creating the most impact with its climate act...

16 Dec 2019

Green gentrification: How climate action in cities can avoid fueling inequality

News / Carbon & Climate

China can't wean itself off overseas coal

...tion on what constitutes green finance threaten to undercut its contribution in fighting the global climate crisis. “China has yet to publish a climate strategy to shift its investment in coal oversea...

12 Jun 2019

China can't wean itself off overseas coal

News / Manufacturing

Why doesn't Nespresso close the loop on aluminium?

...t enough—it was also important to look at how aluminium was produced in the first place,” said Rio Tinto in a statement. But Nespresso's aluminium initiative raises the question: why is the company u...

2 Jan 2019

Why doesn't Nespresso close the loop on aluminium?

Press Releases / Inciner8 Limited

Helping island communities retain their beauty

...te at these remote locations. They’re reducing waste output, protecting the environment, and improving public health—and they’re helping to preserve the natural beauty of these stunn...

21 Mar 2019

Helping island communities retain their beauty

Videos / Energy

Is the future of power transmission beaming electricity with diamonds?

...third in South Asia. "Power beaming is part of the solution, it can be used as a sustainable and economical way to transport energy to remote locations. With electricity will come business opportuniti...

24 Jan 2019

Is the future of power transmission beaming electricity with diamonds?

News / Energy

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

...t is the digitisation of the environmental attributes of renewable energy, he said. The not-for-profit Reneum operates a digital platform that leverages blockchain to facilitate environmental attribut...

30 Sep 2019

Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?

News / Waste

Australia's first playground made with recycled beauty products

...terials that can serve as sustainable alternatives to plastic. The recycled materials used to make the playground included plastic pellets made out of beauty product waste. Image: TerraCycle “The st...

27 Feb 2019

Australia's first playground made with recycled beauty products

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