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Press Releases / Eco-Business

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

Singapore, 5 April 2018 — A new global call for innovative solutions to urban waste management and cooling challenges was launched today, with each submission standing the chance to secure up to...

5 四月 2018

First-ever Liveability Challenge offers up to S$1m for game-changing urban innovations

新闻 / 垃圾

Shopping festivals deliver disaster for environment

Within 24 hours of online retailer Tmall launching its Singles' Day shopping promotion in November, consumers had quickly snapped up goods worth 170 billion yuan (US$26 billion) in a frenzy of online ...

9 一月 2018

Shopping festivals deliver disaster for environment

新闻 / 能源

Singapore's first e-commerce marketplace for energy powers up

Southeast Asia's first e-commerce platform for electricity has launched, making it easier for businesses in Singapore to choose renewable energy to power their operations. Electrify.sg was set up by t...

19 七月 2017

Singapore's first e-commerce marketplace for energy powers up

The Conscious Festival by Green is the New Black was held in Hong Kong early this year, bringing together local and international brands that promote sustainable lifestyle and consumption choices. Image: Green Is The New Black Asia

新闻 / 生活方式

Will sustainability ever trump price for Asian consumers?

Half of consumers in Southeast Asia would pay more for environmentally-friendly products, according to a global survey conducted by Nielsen in 2017. That alone might suggest that sustainable products ...

28 八月 2018

Will sustainability ever trump price for Asian consumers?

A student at a vocational school in Osh, Kyrgyzstan practices her sewing

观点 / 政策和金融

Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

In the World Bank’s most recent “Doing Business” report, half of the Eastern European and Central Asian countries included in the global ranking were among the top 50. As a measure of economic maturit...

11 四月 2018

Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

新闻 / 能源

From German trains to South Korean buses, hydrogen is back in the energy picture

Jorgo Chatzimarkakis was refueling his hydrogen fuel-cell car at one of the 50-plus refueling stations scattered around Germany when a Tesla driver, who was recharging his own car, approached. The man...

12 十一月 2018

From German trains to South Korean buses, hydrogen is back in the energy picture

Oscar-winning actor and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker at Ecosperity

新闻 / 政策和金融

Gene screening to skills shaping: 5 big ideas for a better world

How the sick are cared for, how we learn, and how and what people eat needs to change fundamentally if we are to create a clean, healthy, and happy future for people and the planet—business as usual i...

19 六月 2018

Gene screening to skills shaping: 5 big ideas for a better world

What will the Singapore skyline look like in the future? Sustainable infrastructure and industries are essential to maintain the city-state's competitiveness. Image: Eco-business

新闻 / 城市

How can industries innovate in the year of climate action?

Four months ago, a company not particularly well known in the world of fashion, Dell Technologies, launched a line of jewellery made from gold salvaged from the guts of discarded computers. This ventu...

23 四月 2018

How can industries innovate in the year of climate action?

Research / Eco-Business

Circular Economy Industry Roundtable: Towards a Circular Singapore

There has been no starker reminder of the urgency for change this year than United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, pr...

4 十月 2017

Circular Economy Industry Roundtable: Towards a Circular Singapore

新闻 / 粮食和农业

The grapes of trash

German monk and theologian Martin Luther probably said it best: “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” It’s true — the world loves its wine. Americans, in fact, downed close to a billion gallons of it in...

20 三月 2018

The grapes of trash

Press Releases / 350.org East Asia

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

On September 8, just days ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit, tens of thousands of people came together for Rise for Climate events and actions in cities and towns around the world. Their joint...

10 九月 2018

Singapore joins global Rise for Climate

Press Releases / Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls & Institute of Technical Education partner on real-life technical workforce training

Students at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) can now look forward to an authentic learning experience in a building management facility right on campus after a Memorandum of Understanding (M...

12 三月 2018

Johnson Controls & Institute of Technical Education partner on real-life technical workforce training

Press Releases / Green Initiatives

Yew Chung International School Shanghai’s Gubei Campus Partners on Green Initiatives’ [WE] Project

The Gubei Campus of Yew Chung International School of Shanghai (YCIS) has proudly confirmed its sponsorship of the [WE] Project, making it the first school in Shanghai to support the citywide recyclin...

24 十一月 2016

Yew Chung International School Shanghai’s Gubei Campus Partners on Green Initiatives’ [WE] Project

新闻 / 能源

China leading on world’s clean energy investment, says report

The report, released on January 9 by the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), details the rising importance of China’s firms and investors for low-carbon projects ou...

10 一月 2018

China leading on world’s clean energy investment, says report

新闻 / 能源

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan gave his maiden speech to the nation on August 19. Not once did he mention words like load shedding, power shortfall or outages. Ironically, just two nights be...

28 八月 2018

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

新闻 / 水

Alibaba joins efforts to protect water resources

Alibaba, a dominant player in China's e-commerce, has teamed up with several non-governmental environmental protection organisations to protect water resources in the country. Alibaba Foundation and t...

12 四月 2017

Alibaba joins efforts to protect water resources

Rag-and-bone man Mr Chua Ngak Theng with Tiger Beer staff in Singapore