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Singapore uses more airconditioning per person than any country in Southeast Asia, and energy expended on ai 73 per cent more energy on cooling more by 2030, to a total of 666,748 terrajoules. Image: Eco-Business

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Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

...carbon intensity by 36 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030, it is going to have to get to grips with its addiction to air-con. Finding better ways to chill At IGBC, Singapore's Building and Construction ...

28 九月 2018

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

新闻 / 碳与气候

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

...carbon allows scientists to determine whether tropical forests are a “carbon sink”, meaning they take in more carbon than they release, or a “carbon source”, meaning their carbon emissions exceed thei...

29 九月 2017

Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season nears

...carbon-rich peat forests across the country. The BRG chief, Nazir Foead, said he believed that peat fires on the scale of the 2015 disaster would not happen in 2019, citing lessons learned from past m...

9 一月 2019

Hazy figures cloud Indonesia’s peat restoration as fire season nears

新闻 / 生活方式

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

...carbon mesh inserted into the t-shirt's pocket that absorbs and traps pollutants in the air such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. According to a press release for Kloters, the t-shirt represents ...

18 四月 2018

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

观点 / 粮食和农业

To save Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, start by mapping them

...carbon than non-peat mineral soils. Peat “domes” are complex hydrological formations that can range in thickness from half a meter to more than 20 meters deep. Peatland forests hold many times more ca...

1 二月 2018

To save Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, start by mapping them

新闻 / 碳与气候

Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals

...carbonisation strategy, something it has long been under pressure to do. Last month at the COP23 climate summit in Bonn, Germany, Carbon Brief spoke to Edmund Hughes, the IMO’s head of air pollution a...

13 十二月 2017

Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals

新闻 / 垃圾

There is a sustainable solution to Asia's sand crunch

What if Asia's construction industry used only recycled sand and stopped sourcing it from the region's environmentally sensitive beaches, mangroves and river banks? A new mobile processing plant from...

26 七月 2018

There is a sustainable solution to Asia's sand crunch

新闻 / 碳与气候

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

Women's untapped communication skills make them "uniquely placed" to explain the damaging impacts of an overheating planet and spur climate action by the public, mayors said on Thursday. From leaders ...

23 二月 2019

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

新闻 / 城市

Cities, scientists unite in battle against climate change at UN summit

...carbon emissions, according to U.N. figures. Under the Paris climate agreement, nearly 200 countries agreed to curb planet-warming emissions enough to keep the rise in global temperatures to well belo...

6 三月 2018

Cities, scientists unite in battle against climate change at UN summit

观点 / 企业社会责任

Taking action on the SDGs: Lessons from Sembcorp Industries

...carbon emission intensity of its energy business by close to 25 per cent from its current 0.55 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per megawatt hour (tCO2 e/MWh) to 0.42 tCO2 e/MWh by 2022 and to less...

11 五月 2018

Taking action on the SDGs: Lessons from Sembcorp Industries

Press Releases / AVPN

AVPN and Prudence Foundation launch competition to foster greater disaster awareness and preparedness

Prudence Foundation, the community investment arm of Prudential in Asia, and AVPN, a Singapore-based funders’ network that is committed to building a high-impact social investment community...

22 二月 2019

AVPN and Prudence Foundation launch competition to foster greater disaster awareness and preparedness

观点 / 政策和金融

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

...carbon pricing and emissions trading. The Howard Government debated—and rejected—a national carbon price in 1994. In 2009 Labor proposed laws to establish a national emissions trading scheme, the Carb...

19 十月 2017

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

新闻 / 碳与气候

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

“It’s clear to anyone who puts their head below the waves that the fate of the world’s coral reefs is hanging in the balance,” said UNEP chief Erik Solheim. “At the moment these undersea explosions of...

15 十一月 2018

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

观点 / 交通

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

Growing demand for electric vehicles is important to help cut transport emissions, but it will also lead to new mining. Without a careful approach, we could create new environmental damage while tryin...

17 四月 2019

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

新闻 / 政策和金融

Katowice climate talks run short of time

By tradition, United Nations conferences on tackling global warming always over-run. No surprise then that the Katowice climate talks ended a day late. They made some useful progress. But the underlyi...

18 十二月 2018

Katowice climate talks run short of time

新闻 / 碳与气候

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

...carbon budget. Trees grow by using photosynthesis to drawn carbon dioxide from the air, and they use the carbon to build wood, foliage and fruit, and return oxygen to the atmosphere. So the presumptio...

9 十月 2017

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

Algae—tiny organisms at the base of the food chain that pack a nutritional punch—could be the next big thing in plant-based protein, if recent developments in Singapore are any indicator. Last month, ...

2 七月 2019

Not your average pond scum: Could algae win the alternative protein race?

新闻 / 政策和金融

Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day has fallen to record low of about 655 million—or 9 percent of the world's population—but a global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is unlik...

20 九月 2018

Global goal to end poverty by 2030 unlikely to be met

新闻 / 碳与气候

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

South Asia has overtaken China to become home to the most polluted cities in the world. Fifteen of the world’s 20 worst polluted cities in 2018 were in India, according to the latest data from Greenpe...

6 六月 2019

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

观点 / 碳与气候

Student climate strikes: System change, not climate change

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, is calling for system change. At a press conference in Brussels, she told the European Commission that in order to fight climate change we nee...

18 三月 2019

Student climate strikes: System change, not climate change

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This year’s haze is set to cost Singapore more than 2015’s S$1.83 billion. Who pays for the losses?

Economists suggest the 2026 haze will cost Singapore more than the 2015 episode, while other estimates state that …
新闻 / 水

Concerns raised as data centres go underwater in China

A Chinese firm is deploying data servers to the sea for natural cooling. Experts say more information on …
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Singapore widens haze crackdown to Kalimantan, targeting 10 Indonesian firms

Singapore has targeted 10 Indonesian companies under its haze law in four days; three of them supply Asia …
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AI wildfire platform seeks Indonesia partnerships as regional haze worsens

Earthshot Prize finalist Satellites on Fire uses AI, satellite imagery and ground data to detect blazes earlier, and …
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Philippine president orders creation of carbon market framework

The framework’s contribution to Philippine climate ambition remains uncertain, as the country’s updated pledge lacks clarity on how …
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Asean turns to World Bank to close clean energy, climate adaptation financing gaps

Southeast Asian finance ministers seek private capital, guarantees and technical support as region faces costly energy transition and …

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