13. Climate action
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. The world continues to experience rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions (the North Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest ever recorded) and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases. This calls for urgent and accelerated action by countries as they implement their commitments to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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Despite potential for wind and solar in east and northeastern India, renewables deployment in these regions is slow. Why?
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Greater ambition called for before pivotal COP28 climate talks
The UN’s Global Stocktake is effectively a to-do list for the climate. Countries know where they need to be, but will they get there?
Now well able to respond to disasters caused by heavy rainfall, what China needs is a long-term strategy for climate adaptation.
Carbon & Climate
‘The market is big enough for everyone’: Climate advisory and investment firm Pollination opens Singapore office
The London-headquartered company launches in the city-state, a competitive market with all of the big four professional services firms offering sustainability practices, with two managing directors.
Carbon & Climate
Climate change 'is killing us' - UN sounds health alarm
Food & Agriculture
Halving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’
Policy & Finance
Will a new global fund deliver for nature?
Opinion
Voluntary plastic waste collection schemes have achieved little in tackling Indonesia's massive plastic waste problem. Some are even making things worse. What's really needed are tougher laws that make polluters pay and a greater emphasis on reuse over recycling.
Engaging the world’s largest polluter on climate solutions has not been smooth sailing. Supply chains are highly inter-connected and businesses find that they need to tread along a tightrope between China and the West, even on climate.
Carbon & Climate
I am proud of how far Singapore has come. But let’s not trade liveability for short-term returns
In a speech at Singapore's climate rally, Madhumitha Ardhanari asked her audience to dream of a Singapore that thrives within planetary boundaries, is a better regional environmental neighbour, and reconsiders what progress means beyond economic growth.
Carbon & Climate
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
Policy & Finance
Fully replenishing the green climate fund
Policy & Finance
The siren song of climate authoritarianism
Carbon & Climate
From denial to delay: Climate action blockers adopt new tactics
Videos
Policy & Finance
Tackling climate change in a mosaicked Asia
EB Studio
Asia's green transition pathways need to be socially inclusive given huge differences in economic development across the region, says experts at the Boston Consulting Group. State-owned enterprises have an "outsized" role to play, they add.
The Green Mortician is the city-state's first water cremation service, which has a small carbon footprint compared to traditional funeral options.
Policy & Finance
‘No income, insufficient aid’ for Oriental Mindoro fisherfolk after oil spill: Research group
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.
Carbon & Climate
Explainer: What is climate risk disclosure?
EB Studio
Investors are starting to feel the effects of climate change in an unexpected place – their financial returns. There are now growing calls within the business community to improve the quality and coverage of climate risk disclosure.
Podcasts
Policy & Finance
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.
Carbon & Climate
‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow
The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.
Japan-based academic Kim Schumacher, who coined the term "competence greenwashing", believes that the pursuit of societal harmony might be standing in the way of Asia calling out greenwashing. He tells the Eco-Business Podcast how exaggerated ESG claims are likely to be tackled in 2023 and beyond.
In a region where large hydro projects and expanding biofuel plantations coincide with an upcoming coal phaseout, a laissez-faire approach could worsen existing inequalities and mar the success of a clean energy buildout.
