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Solar power station and wind farm in Poyang Lake Jiangxi Province, China

News / Energy

‘Without a carbon cap, you can’t provide strong support for a carbon peak’

...2025. Total energy consumption targets are due to be defined in the forthcoming Special 14th FYP for Energy Development. Once these national-level targets have been set, the National Development and R...

18 Mar 2021

‘Without a carbon cap, you can’t provide strong support for a carbon peak’

Workers walk at a solar power station in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, China

News / Policy & Finance

China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan

...2025 economic and social development plan is expected to reinforce a strong signal to Chinese industry to move away from fossil fuels and is likely to mean national emissions start falling within five...

4 Mar 2021

China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan

Opinion / Policy & Finance

ESG investing: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

...2025, representing more than a third of the $140.5 trillion in projected total assets under management. While environmental factors have long been in the spotlight, this growing demand has seen issues...

25 May 2021

ESG investing: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

News / Cities

Singapore calls for regional leaders' summit to discuss Myanmar crisis

...2025 M St. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036.

30 Mar 2021

Singapore calls for regional leaders' summit to discuss Myanmar crisis

Plastic awaits recycling in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Alvaro Aguilar

News / Waste

Just 20 polymer companies are responsible for half of all single-use plastic waste: report

...2025. The Covid-19 pandemic-induced slump in oil price has helped drive plastics production, as it is now much cheaper to produce virgin plastic than recycle used polymers. Recycled plastic or biodegr...

18 May 2021

Just 20 polymer companies are responsible for half of all single-use plastic waste: report

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia pins hopes on carbon capture to cut emissions

...2025 and 2030, according to the IEA. “This investment can’t fall on governments of the region alone. There has to be a role for international public finance institutions,” said Baylin-Stern. “There's ...

18 Aug 2021

Southeast Asia pins hopes on carbon capture to cut emissions

Coal being transported on the Yangtze River in China

News / Policy & Finance

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

...2025). This includes a carbon cap – requiring coal to be below 50 per cent in the primary energy mix by 2025 and the acceleration of structural changes in energy production and consumption. China shou...

25 Sep 2020

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

News / Food & Agriculture

Nobody seems to care about fish welfare — here's why we should

...2025, according to a report by non-governmental organisations including Changing Markets Foundation, published in July. Using wild-caught fish to feed farmed fish flies in the face of the fish industr...

3 Aug 2021

Nobody seems to care about fish welfare — here's why we should

A sea of plastic bottles. Image: Tom Page, CC BY-SA 2.0

News / Waste

Singapore postpones packaging reduction deadline for companies in light of Covid-19 disruption

...2025, and the revised packaging reporting timelines will not affect their timing, NEA told Eco-Business. "There is currently no change to the plan to implement the EPR framework for packaging waste no...

21 May 2020

Singapore postpones packaging reduction deadline for companies in light of Covid-19 disruption

Singapore’s Eco-Business and Tembusu Partners announces new ESG partnership

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore’s Eco-Business and Tembusu Partners announce new ESG partnership

...2025. As Asia Pacific’s first and leading media platform dedicated to sustainable development issues, Eco-Business is well-positioned to capitalise on the surge in ESG interest in Asia and globally....

28 Jan 2021

Singapore’s Eco-Business and Tembusu Partners announce new ESG partnership

News / Policy & Finance

Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?

...2025. China and India do not have NDCs expressed as emissions percentage reductions, so their NDC pathways are not included. The EU’s net-zero trajectory is difficult to see as it follows a similar tr...

12 Jan 2021

Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?

News / Transport

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but electric vehicles could render both moot

...2025, according to the county’s mid-term development plan. Besides biodiesel, the government is also looking to develop biogasoline from palm oil. “Now our task is to stop importing gasoline. So we ha...

14 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but electric vehicles could render both moot

trash collected during the East Coast beach clean up

Opinion / Waste

Five facts about unsustainable waste management in Singapore

...2025. Continued investment in upcycling innovations will be equally crucial to tackling Singapore’s waste management problems. Last year, the government has also opened a new waste management plant wh...

11 Jan 2021

Five facts about unsustainable waste management in Singapore

Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore

Videos / Energy

Energy efficiency: Southeast Asia's decarbonisation quick fix?

...2025. And yet energy efficiency improvements, such as fitting better air-conditioning chillers and switching to LED lights, could meet 25 per cent of Southeast Asia’s emissions reductions targets. Wat...

12 Jun 2020

Energy efficiency: Southeast Asia's decarbonisation quick fix?

News / Policy & Finance

Biden’s finance pledge inadequate for climate justice

...2025. This promise dates from 2009, when then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged that developed countries would mobilise this amount each year from 2020 to help developing nations move towa...

22 Apr 2021

Biden’s finance pledge inadequate for climate justice

News / Energy

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in Europe for first time last year

...2025. That said, Asia was responsible for 80 per cent of the world’s coal power generation last year. In 2018, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global coal use would ...

26 Jan 2021

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in Europe for first time last year

Aveda products, promoted as using post-consumer recycled plastic.

News / Waste

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

...2025. The company estimates that just 5 per cent of its 2019 plastic footprint was recycled plastic. Unilever's competitor, Henkel, is just as confident that the price of recycled plastic will not aff...

6 Apr 2020

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

News / Food & Agriculture

Food giants join global coalition to improve how farm animals are treated

...2025, for instance. Cage-free eggs are laid by hens that are not enclosed in cages but are kept in barns or other enclosures that allow them to exhibit more natural behaviour, such as perching. Will A...

9 Nov 2020

Food giants join global coalition to improve how farm animals are treated

Podcasts / Energy

Clean energy imports into Southeast Asia: are the moonshot plans useful?

...2025, up from over 33 per cent today, but this rate of deployment is too slow to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement in keeping global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Could...

14 Jul 2022

Clean energy imports into Southeast Asia: are the moonshot plans useful?

Malangas Zamboaga, Sibugay PNOC Coal mine

News / Energy

Additional coal supply in Covid-era Philippines will increase electricity costs for consumers, experts say

...2025 to take advantage of the “high quality of coal” in the area, Briguez said. Also in the pipeline is a coal power plant project sited near a mine in Isabela province in Cagayan Valley, Luzon. The p...

21 Jul 2020

Additional coal supply in Covid-era Philippines will increase electricity costs for consumers, experts say

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