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Mind the ESG skills gap: Asia's workforce is greening too slowly

...2025, as in-demand skills across jobs change. Companies in the report say that around 40 per cent of workers will need reskilling for up to six months to do perform sustainability-focused jobs well. T...

20 Apr 2022

Mind the ESG skills gap: Asia's workforce is greening too slowly

News / Carbon & Climate

CO2 cuts in doubt as China, India bend coal targets

...2025. Data released by the Central Electricity Authority in September 2022 show that only 21 out of the 600 thermal power plants in the country have flue gas desulphurisation units or other pollution ...

25 May 2023

CO2 cuts in doubt as China, India bend coal targets

News / Policy & Finance

'In the future, sustainable products will be conventional products': UOB chief sustainability officer Eric Lim

...2025 to $30 billion. In July, UOB reported that its sustainable finance portfolio reached S$20 billion as at Q2 this year. This more than tripled from S$6.6 billion at the end of 2019. Meanwhile, the ...

13 Oct 2022

'In the future, sustainable products will be conventional products': UOB chief sustainability officer Eric Lim

News / Food & Agriculture

Has KFC found the secret sauce to circular packaging?

...2025, which could reduce public expenditure and the amount of waste sent to landfills. Nevertheless, Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, a mechanical engineering professor and chair of the National Universi...

8 Jul 2022

Has KFC found the secret sauce to circular packaging?

News / Energy

Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023

...2025 and 370GW by 2030, from 230GW in 2021. These plans play a major role in enabling the development of clean energy bases in western China. China Electricity Council reported investments in electric...

1 Feb 2024

Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023

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News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade

...2025 targets for energy intensity and non-fossil energy, set in the 14th five-year plan published in March. The targets leave space for emissions to increase by around 5–10 per cent from 2020 to 2025,...

21 May 2021

Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade

News / Energy

Indian coal hub juggles need for jobs with hope for greener future

...2025, research shows. Many of these new jobs will be in Angul, where opportunities in mining are set to expand through to 2040 as the area boosts its coal production capacity, a recent iFOREST report ...

12 Sep 2022

Indian coal hub juggles need for jobs with hope for greener future

News / Policy & Finance

How to halt deforestation? Trust indigenous groups, funders say

...2025, represents a more than seven-fold increase from the roughly $46 million a year those communities receive now, according to the donors. But getting big sums of much-needed cash to threatened fron...

8 Apr 2022

How to halt deforestation? Trust indigenous groups, funders say

News / Carbon & Climate

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

...2025. However, no concrete steps have been announced to achieve these goals. Reports have instead suggested that the expansion would “slow down“ or “be delayed” due to a mix of factors. The announceme...

15 Nov 2022

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

News / Policy & Finance

UN climate summit set for tough negotiations in final week

...2025, half of which has already been committed by the bank. The Global Centre on Adaptation estimates that the costs of adaptation on the continent will total $50 billion per year by 2050, even if the...

14 Nov 2022

UN climate summit set for tough negotiations in final week

News / Corporate Responsibility

Singtel hires Lee Hui Mien from Mandai Park to lead environmental sustainability

...2025. She will start on 20 September, and report to Singtel's vice president of group sustainability, Andrew Buay. Before her role at Mandai Park, Lee led the sustainability function for IKEA Southeas...

13 Sep 2021

Singtel hires Lee Hui Mien from Mandai Park to lead environmental sustainability

News / Carbon & Climate

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

...2025 (ACT2025), which comprises think tanks based in several climate-vulnerable countries including Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines. “With so much at stake, co...

7 Oct 2021

UN General Assembly sees progress on methane, climate finance and coal

News / Carbon & Climate

A year on, China's national carbon market still plagued by serious data issues and delays

...2025. “For now, the other hard-to-abate sectors would have to wait (before they are covered by the ETS). The situation is also not peculiar to China. We are seeing a lot of complexities in the energy...

30 Aug 2022

A year on, China's national carbon market still plagued by serious data issues and delays

Brazilian indigenous activist at the opening of COP26

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate justice requires women's leadership

...2025. The Berlin Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development states that environmental education must be available to girls and boys alike from an early age to ensure that future generations ...

25 Mar 2022

Climate justice requires women's leadership

Floating solar panels on Srinakarin lake, Thailand.

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia's economy could grow by US$12.5 trillion by 2070 if the fossil fuel-dependent region decarbonises

...2025 and 2030, according to International Energy Agency analysis. Industries including manufacturing, retail, tourism, manufacturing, construction, transport, agriculture, water and utilities could se...

25 Aug 2021

Southeast Asia's economy could grow by US$12.5 trillion by 2070 if the fossil fuel-dependent region decarbonises

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

...2025 to support their forest tenure rights. Forest stewards In recent years, many studies have shown that granting land rights to indigenous peoples is a particularly cost-effective approach to combat...

28 Jun 2022

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Fixing our failing food systems

...2025, we must measure progress in months, not years – and COP26 largely relegated food systems to the sidelines. In UN climate negotiations, coal, cars, trees, cement, steel and cash – continue to cap...

6 Apr 2022

Fixing our failing food systems

News / Waste

No trash goes to waste on Greek islands racing to recycle

...2025 and 65 per cent by 2035. Greece has taken some steps against throwaway culture, such as making stores charge customers for single-use plastic bags. Still, "we are quite backward when it comes to ...

29 Aug 2022

No trash goes to waste on Greek islands racing to recycle

News / Waste

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

...2025, the global market for the K-Cup and other kinds of coffee capsules is expected to be worth more than $29 billion. More than 40 per cent of US households owned a coffee pod machine in 2020, and i...

23 Dec 2022

Rise of coffee capsules stirs concerns about pod waste

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?

...2025 and eliminate, phase out or reform them by 2030 – including a numerical target to reduce the incentives by at least US$500bn per year by the end of the decade. The target adds that this should be...

30 May 2023

Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?

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