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Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

...tivities that contribute to the climate problem and into climate solutions. However, they are just getting started in thinking through and strategizing on how best to respond—and tracking the climate ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

Nurjan Toktomambetova, is a member of self-help group of women entrepreneurs

Opinion / Policy & Finance

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

...tunity to accelerate progress towards gender equality. Movements such as #MeToo have shone the spotlight on an unacceptable status quo and demonstrated how too many women the world over continue to be...

7 Mar 2018

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

News / Cities

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

...to take on the challenges of the 21st century. 62 per cent of respondents disagreed with this statement. A constant concern in the dialogues was that cities were restrained in their ability to innovat...

16 Jul 2018

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

News / Policy & Finance

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

...that it is possible to take something that women have for too long kept quiet about and transform it into a powerful movement...The collective female voice is unstoppable – combine this with the trans...

31 Jan 2018

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

Research / Collective Responsibility

Informal waste management in China

...tre The latest addition to our publications series “Informal Waste Management”, a report that we have constructed after interviewing dozens of stakeholders, visiting waste management site...

6 Jul 2017

Informal waste management in China

News / Energy

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

...term agreements. This would mean that the new Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government only had the option of making the “best out of a bad situation”. “If there are long-term contracts with strict fi...

28 Aug 2018

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

...those that do accept that global warming is real and important, they still tend to think of it as distant," Leiserowitz said, both in terms of when impacts will come and where they will happen. That m...

2 Mar 2017

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

News / Waste

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

...t think about how it hurts the environment. They just think about what they want now, and what's on trend,” added Torres. Pointing to a pile of clothes, Torres emphasised that most of the donated clot...

29 Jan 2018

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

people carrying umbrellas after a storm in India

News / Policy & Finance

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

...the meeting. "And that has to be addressed through investments at national level - social protection systems, national disaster management capacity, infrastructure capacity - to be able to deliver the...

31 Jul 2017

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

News / Energy

Coal-reliant Philippines struggles to power up clean energy

...tricity," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But the country's first tax hike on coal in 30 years, introduced in March, may signal a shift in the government's attitude towards the fossil fuel, en...

21 May 2018

Coal-reliant Philippines struggles to power up clean energy

News / Transport

Are recyclers ready for the coming glut of lithium-ion batteries?

...t generation of electric vehicle batteries have not got to a recycling stage yet, but the clock is ticking. In Europe it is estimated that 5 per cent of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the rat...

9 Jul 2018

Are recyclers ready for the coming glut of lithium-ion batteries?

Opinion / Energy

Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

...tly went to market that uses its electricity to draw water from the atmosphere to deliver up to 5 liters of pure water per day — a potential life-saver for many in the Asean region. The technology dev...

6 Jul 2018

Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

News / Energy

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

...the idea that such gains can lift their countries out of poverty. But to what extent do these benefits trickle down to the local population, especially to communities that have had their lives altered...

21 Aug 2018

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

Opinion / Energy

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

...ted coal is tied directly to regulatory practices that act as implicit subsidies that perpetuate market distortions. The cost of coal can range from P3.8 to P5.5 (US$.07 to US$0.11) per kilowatt hour ...

16 May 2018

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

CapitaLand Commercial Trust speaking on a panel at the BCA Breakfast Talk for CEOs. Image: BCA

News / Green Buildings

The missing brick in green buildings: The occupant

...tting our tenants to do the same is a lot more difficult, because you can’t tell them what to do. They are the ones paying us the rent,” said Leong, adding that sustainability may not be part of the t...

20 Sep 2017

The missing brick in green buildings: The occupant

News / Food & Agriculture

How did the world lose tropical forests the size of Bangladesh in 2017?

...te and think are we doing something wrong? I think we need to open to that possibility over the next two days.” Commenting on the recent deforestation trend in the tropics, Norway minister of climate ...

2 Jul 2018

How did the world lose tropical forests the size of Bangladesh in 2017?

Vietnamese coffee farmers examine water management system

Opinion / Water

5 things companies can do to grow in a water-stressed world

...t use. Data doesn't have to be perfect to be useful: In the absence of observed data, models and estimates will do. But without any water data, decision-makers are putting water security, infrastructu...

15 Mar 2018

5 things companies can do to grow in a water-stressed world

The Seabin collecting trash at Republic of Singapore Yacht Club. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

The Seabin won't swallow Asia’s plastic pollution problem—but it’s a start

...Thailand. But he noted that the debris captured in Singapore contained the highest concentration of plastic nurdles—the lentil-sized pellets used as a raw material to make plastic products—that he had...

11 Apr 2018

The Seabin won't swallow Asia’s plastic pollution problem—but it’s a start

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News / Energy

Australia's untapped 'solar superpower' potential

...ts the country with an opportunity to be a renewable energy superpower. This was the optimistic outlook delivered by American computer scientist and futurist Ramez Naam at the SingularityU Australia ...

14 Mar 2018

Australia's untapped 'solar superpower' potential

Singapore's 'City in a Garden' plan has seen a network of parks, nature reserves and greened buildings span the 70 kilometre-squared island—but the country has just 0.5 per cent primary forest cover left. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

...tore kitted out with sensors to monitor their moisture content. Can Singapore become a city in nature? Singapore citizens may like greenness, but not appreciate the wildlife that is attracted to it....

19 Sep 2018

Can Singapore, the city in a garden, grow into a city in nature?

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