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新闻 / 碳与气候

Jakarta floods renew calls for stronger environmental protection

...17. The budget was reduced to 1.48 trillion rupiah ($107 million) for 2020, down 26 per cent from the 2018 figure. Flood mitigation is a key adaptation strategy to the impacts of rising sea levels as ...

8 一月 2020

Jakarta floods renew calls for stronger environmental protection

An advertisement for green group Sea Shepherd highlights the ecosystem damage of cigarette butt pollution to mark World Oceans Day. A single cigarette can pollute 500 litres of water, the ad warns. Image: Sea Shepherd

新闻 / 垃圾

When will tobacco companies be held responsible for cigarette butt pollution?

...1.123 billion people aged 15+ smoke now; 1.095 billion people will smoke by 2025 • 2,500 young people under 18 try their first cigarette every day • 7,000 chemicals are in tobacco smoke, 250 are them ...

22 十月 2019

When will tobacco companies be held responsible for cigarette butt pollution?

Haze over Singapore's skyline, September 2019

新闻 / 粮食和农业

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

...1 per cent of fire alerts (2,342 out of 177,519 hotspots) occurred on APP supplier land, and less than 1 per cent (615 hotspots) on April supplier land. Update, 22 September: A report from forestry in...

18 九月 2019

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

新闻 / 能源

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, activists urge the same for biomass energy

...19, up from $2.8 billion in 2015. That amount is dwarfed by the $87 billion BlackRock retained in 2019 in investments related to fossil fuels. And it’s not alone: Vanguard has about $161 billion in fo...

20 四月 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, activists urge the same for biomass energy

Press Releases / Blue Planet

Blue Planet raises US$25 million from Nomura

...15 out of the 17 SDGs directly or indirectly, and is a unique player in the region that engages with governments and companies to help them realise the benefits of sustainable waste management. The c...

24 三月 2020

Blue Planet raises US$25 million from Nomura

Press Releases / ComfortDelGro

ComfortDelGro named leading sustainability company

17 September 2019 – ComfortDelGro Corporation has been recognised as one of the world's leading companies for sustainability with its inclusion in the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Asia P...

17 九月 2019

ComfortDelGro named leading sustainability company

视频 / 碳与气候

What you need to know about sustainable cooling and climate change

...12 per cent in the worst affected regions of South Asia and West Africa, or 6 per cent of annual GDP. The lack of adequate cold storage and refrigerated transport contributes to over 1.5 million vacci...

4 六月 2019

What you need to know about sustainable cooling and climate change

新闻 / 政策和金融

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

...19 outbreak, it has signed 22 megawatt-peak (MWp) worth of deals in Malaysia, 15MWp in Vietnam and 12MWp in Singapore. To grow the sector faster, corporates and financiers want to see more regulatory ...

28 九月 2020

Can Asean balance growth and sustainability in post-Covid infrastructure development?

新闻 / 能源

Activists stop coal operations in protest of planned US$1 billion Australian mine

...16.5 billion (or US$ 11.6 billion) and would have been Australia's largest mine but amid protests and failure to secure funding, has been scaled down to A$2 billion (or US$1.4 billion). Even with the ...

5 三月 2019

Activists stop coal operations in protest of planned US$1 billion Australian mine

观点 / 能源

Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem

...167 developing countries studied by IFC, fuel-burning generators spread across 20 to 30 million individual sites have a total capacity of 350–500 gigawatts. That’s equivalent to 700 to 1,000 large coa...

27 十一月 2019

Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem

观点 / 碳与气候

How to get to net-zero emissions

...18, new investments in renewables fell to less than $290 billion. “ A decade ago, the UK Committee on Climate Change estimated that it would cost 1-2 per cent of GDP per year to reduce emissions by 8...

25 六月 2019

How to get to net-zero emissions

Press Releases / Temasek

"Trash to Fash: An Upcycling Competition” challenges youths to design fashion for a sustainable future

...1565 / 9682 5824 Email: joshua.phua@edelman.com ANNEX Competition Details Phase 1 – Online Applications (open till 18 Mar 2019) Interested participants may apply as individuals or in teams o...

13 三月 2019

"Trash to Fash: An Upcycling Competition” challenges youths to design fashion for a sustainable future

Press Releases / Energy Market Authority

Energy leaders IRENA, Siemens to deliver opening keynotes at 12th SIEW

...19 will run from 29 October to 1 November 2019 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Register your attendance at www.siew.sg before 30 September 2019 to enjoy early bir...

9 十月 2019

Energy leaders IRENA, Siemens to deliver opening keynotes at 12th SIEW

观点 / 政策和金融

Data-driven gender equality

...16, 76 per cent of girls aged 15-19 were married, which partly explains why 73 per cent of lower-secondary-school-age girls are out of school. Child labor is also common, and almost a third of the wor...

25 一月 2019

Data-driven gender equality

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever top polluters 2019