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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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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 / 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

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 / Food & Agriculture

5 places to eat in Asia that doesn't cost the earth

...they were not only named the best restaurant in Indonesia at Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, they also scooped ‘Asia’s Most Sustainable Restaurant’ that is presented annually to the restaurant “with the h...

5 Jul 2019

5 places to eat in Asia that doesn't cost the earth

News / Manufacturing

Future styles: Could virtual clothes reduce the damage of fast fashion?

...tly in the photo, it's a virtual design that does not exist in real life. She is among a number of trendsetters embracing cutting-edge technology that offers the opportunity to sate appetites for fast...

19 Feb 2019

Future styles: Could virtual clothes reduce the damage of fast fashion?

News / Policy & Finance

'Come with a plan,' UN chief tells states ahead of climate summit

...te change's fast-expanding cost to public health, said Guterres. The world's warming trend is expected to continue, with the past four years the hottest on record, said the WMO report. Several countri...

29 Mar 2019

'Come with a plan,' UN chief tells states ahead of climate summit

News / Cities

Can Qatar's low-carbon city show a greener Middle East future?

...to help the climate not to get hotter," Al-Yafei told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Karim Elgendy, a sustainability consultant and founder of Carboun, an initiative to promote sustainable cities in ...

4 Mar 2019

Can Qatar's low-carbon city show a greener Middle East future?

News / Policy & Finance

Two years after #MeToo put a spotlight on gender inequality, how is Asia investing in women?

...t of [the #MeToo movement]. When it’s at the front of people’s minds, and companies are starting to look at their own policies and practices, people will start thinking about how they contributed to t...

5 Feb 2020

Two years after #MeToo put a spotlight on gender inequality, how is Asia investing in women?

News / Policy & Finance

The shadow of the coronavirus on Pakistan

...t the moment], it is not possible to set up a screening facility there,” pointed out Shah, adding that he had seen the district health director’s letter in which the latter had told his superiors that...

4 Feb 2020

The shadow of the coronavirus on Pakistan

News / Waste

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases

...thought, posing a significant threat to the food chain, scientists found in March. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that...

2 Aug 2018

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases

News / Food & Agriculture

Death by diet: The race to transform the world's food habits

...them was "virtually non-existent", said Emmy Simmons, senior adviser at the Washington DC-based think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. That is why the farm sector must adapt to mak...

6 May 2019

Death by diet: The race to transform the world's food habits

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