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...100 billion a year. What’s less clear is how much impact the climate finance already flowing to these countries, estimated at $79.6 billion in 2019, is having. There is an overwhelming lack of data, a...

25 Feb 2022

CapitaLand unveils S$50 million innovation fund and crowns winners of first CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge

...10. Thin Line Capital 11. Wavemaker Partne 12. ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations 13. Building and Construction Authority (BCA)&nb...

11 Jun 2021

...11 billion (USD 1.7 billion) from China between mid-July 2021 and mid-April 2022, according to Nepal’s Department of Customs. In contrast, Nepal’s exports to China were NPR 622 million (USD 5 million)...

30 May 2022

...11 per cent of the national energy mix. The government has vowed to increase that to 23 per cent by 2025. But the roll-out of a highly-anticipated carbon tax, welcomed as part of efforts to phase down...

13 Apr 2022

Burning concession of palm oil company PT Kumai Sentosa in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia.

...192 logging, plantation, mining and ecotourism operations, totaling 3.13 million hectares (7.73 million acres). The government didn’t cite any environmental justification for the revocations; instead,...

21 Feb 2022

...1, in an article titled "COVID-19's unsustainable waste management" published in Science journal, my fellow researchers and I pointed out how the coronavirus pandemic has led to an abrupt collapse of ...

24 Jan 2022

...16.24) is less than 1 in 100,000 – good luck! Mattel, the company behind the Barbie doll, has recognised that the 60s mentality around body image is long gone. In an effort to capture social change, M...

23 Aug 2021

Schneider Electric reaches number 1 spot for sustainability in its sector by ESG rating agency Vigeo Eiris

...1-2025 Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) targets launched in January of this year. The report highlighted some key successes for the Group such as 91 per cent of its top 1000 suppliers joining it...

23 Aug 2021

Sustainable finance key lever for net-zero transition and social stability in the face of disruption

...17 interlinked targets adopted by all nations for a more sustainable future by 2030 — revealed that Covid-19 and the continued regression on climate action and resource use have caused the bigge...

26 Sep 2022

...19 amounts to a 1.2 million more than the reported deaths in 2020. “These last two years have been a tragic reminder of our inability to accurately count the human lives we lost during the Covid-19 pa...

26 Nov 2021

...1.5°C increase. There is also a 10 per cent chance that average temperatures over the next five years will jump to more than 1.5°C. “Time is running out to meet the ambitious goal laid out in the Par...

24 May 2022

...143 million cubic feet) of teak logs and sawn timber — worth $2.79 billion — from Myanmar between 2007 and 2017, according to an EIA report. The U.S. and EU import smaller amounts from Myanmar, but th...

10 Feb 2021

...100 times more CO2 than a shared bus or train ride, and the emissions of global aviation are around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year — more than the emissions of most countries, including Germany. Avi...

7 Apr 2022

...1,180 hectares (2,916 acres), more than half of the forest’s expanse, transferred from the state to private owners. Of this, 680 hectares (1,680 acres) was listed as going to TP Moral Group, headed by...

15 Aug 2022

...12,000 homes were flooded, 10,000 hectares of crops were damaged and 11 people died. In 2020, 44 people were forced to evacuate a Dalat hotel when the structure became at risk of collapsing during a d...

4 Jul 2022

New WWF analysis reveals the possibility of freeing at least 7800 km of rivers in the region from unnecessary and environmentally harmful barriers

...1 52 45 470 19, ilucius@wwfcee.org Read full report here [1] European Environmental Agency, briefing Tracking barriers and their impacts on European river ecosystems, February 2021. Out of 34 per ce...

21 Apr 2021

...18 are not functioning. In Bokaro, 12 of 25 mines are operating, with the rest having closed in the last five years - some due to lack of technical clearance, some merging with bigger adjoining mines,...

9 Mar 2022

...1 May. Fernandez has overseen Mediacorp's news and current affairs operations since 2013, and also manages the company's AI strategy and solutions for the newsrooms and broadcast engineering. He will ...

21 Apr 2021

...1,664 extreme weather events in 2015. There was a peak of 3,810 such disasters in 2019. Neighbouring Timor Leste saw some of its Covid-19 vaccine storage facilities flooded by Cyclone Seroja. Forty on...

30 Nov 2021

...1. Rising government and consumer support To reduce its overt reliance on food imports, Singapore set out to produce 30 per cent of its nutritional needs locally by 2030, with S$140 million (US$ 101 m...

26 Aug 2021

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