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Lim brings to an end a long tenure with Microsoft, where latterly she was senior manager, global diversity and inclusion, Asia practice leader.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

...2025, and for half of its senior leaders to be women, and half of its senior management team to come from emerging markets, by 2030. Lim's role involves defining and executing the diversity and inclus...

3 Feb 2021

Microsoft diversity and inclusion lead Shoon Yin Lim joins Givaudan

News / Policy & Finance

China-backed AIIB set to raise climate financing to US$50 billion by 2030

...2025 to be directed towards climate financing. At the press conference, Jin reported that climate finance currently accounts for 41 per cent of the bank’s infrastructure portfolio. He called for more ...

27 Oct 2021

China-backed AIIB set to raise climate financing to US$50 billion by 2030

Petrol station attendant Naeem Satti charges an electric SUV at a charging station in Islamabad, Pakistan

News / Transport

Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gear

...2025. "Definitely the tax exemptions make the price point (on electric vehicles) competitive," said Malik Amin Aslam, the special assistant to the prime minister on climate change. "It makes it extrem...

23 Nov 2021

Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gear

News / Waste

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

...2025, according to data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Dave Albao, executive director of the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PRRCFI), which manages...

22 Nov 2021

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

NEU Battery Materials founders Kenneth Palmer and Bryan Oh

News / Waste

As lithium reserves dwindle, Singapore EV battery recycling startup aims to plug supply gap

...2025]. Another is finding the right talent and skillset in a new field in a country with a young EV market [Oh is currently looking to hire an electrochemical engineer], particularly as we look to sca...

5 May 2022

As lithium reserves dwindle, Singapore EV battery recycling startup aims to plug supply gap

Press Releases / Recourse

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

...2025. In Pakistan, DPF has had unintended consequences, even when ostensibly it is seeking to support a renewable energy transition. The $400 million Pakistan Program for Affordable and Clean Energy ...

14 Dec 2021

World Bank’s Development Policy Finance: still funding fossil fuels and unsustainable energy models

News / Energy

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

...2025. A 2050 goal, reached via public and private partnerships, is to discover, finesse and produce an algae strain that proves itself to be cost-competitive with fossil fuels on the energy market. Ho...

7 Jul 2021

ExxonMobil takes a gamble on algae biofuel

News / Energy

Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

...2025. Vietnam’s bet on coal collided head-on with rising concern over the impacts of climate change. One by one, international development banks swore off financing coal plants; by 2020, only a few So...

16 Mar 2022

Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

Coal miners at Lao Ye Temple Mine in Shanxi, China

News / Energy

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

...2025) for the energy sector – a highly anticipated industry roadmap for the next five years – was published on 22 March, further sealing coal’s role in the country’s future power system. The document...

30 Mar 2022

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

News / Policy & Finance

Frustration and fury over climate finance at COP26

...2025 to enable poorer countries to move towards a green economy while dealing with climate change impacts. Developing countries have sought trillions of dollars — most of their updated NDCs are condit...

9 Nov 2021

Frustration and fury over climate finance at COP26

News / Policy & Finance

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

...2025, adopted last year, UNEP acknowledges that securing higher contributions to the Environment Fund, as well as funding that is “only softly earmarked”, will be “indispensable” for UNEP to bring abo...

3 Jun 2022

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine addresses Davos 2022

News / Carbon & Climate

Overheard at Davos: climate leaders at the 2022 WEF annual meeting

...2025, and halve emissions by 2030. Given current trajectories, the world is heading for an overshoot. Meanwhile, fossil fuel demand is still soaring, with coal-fired power generation reaching an all-t...

1 Jun 2022

Overheard at Davos: climate leaders at the 2022 WEF annual meeting

News / Energy

Asia’s bet on gas looks increasingly risky

...2025, the International Energy Agency has forecast Asia’s emerging economies to be the second-largest growth market for LNG demand after China. (China and India were excluded from the emerging categor...

21 Apr 2022

Asia’s bet on gas looks increasingly risky

News / Waste

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

...2025 — unless the world changes its ways — these levels of pollution will have doubled. And, the researchers warn, the uncertain and as yet unknown effects of weathering on such volumes of plastic cou...

9 Jul 2021

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

News / Carbon & Climate

How can finance help China’s heavy industries decarbonise?

...2025 to 2030, highlighting uncertainties over its ability to slash emissions in the longer term. On February 7, guidance on developing the sector was jointly published by the ministries of industry an...

18 Apr 2022

How can finance help China’s heavy industries decarbonise?

News / Policy & Finance

Ensuring global Covid-19 vaccine access seen worth billions to rich nations

...2025, in an analysis based on IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts of varying vaccination scenarios. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the report, and said contributing to the ACT...

4 Dec 2020

Ensuring global Covid-19 vaccine access seen worth billions to rich nations

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore students rally against fossil fuel firms' interference in universities

...2025, amid controversy. “Should those who have profited off of the climate crisis—off of widespread suffering, death, injustice, and mass extinction—play any role in decisions about education?” said ...

17 Jan 2022

Singapore students rally against fossil fuel firms' interference in universities

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

...2025, said Lim, who declined to elaborate on production volumes. At industrial-scale production, the price of Bambara milk will be competitive against cow's milk and soy milk. Image: WhatIF Foods Th...

13 Jan 2021

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

News / Food & Agriculture

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

...2025. Reflecting its importance, the survey team will be headed by the vice premier of the State Council, Hu Chunhua, with deputy posts occupied by leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the...

4 Aug 2022

China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

...2025. Recently, the APEC Economic Leaders have also reiterated their commitment towards tackling climate change by promoting sustainable financing and quality investment. And global institutions are j...

29 Sep 2021

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

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