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Cities: Possibilities 2024 spotlights public-private finance partnerships and stronger governance models for climate-resilient cities

...2025. More details can be viewed here. Cities: Possibilities 2024 featured experts and leaders from the building, finance, and infrastructure sectors, as well as policymakers, academi...

28 Oct 2024

An action plan for energy cooperation sets out that Asean seeks to raise the proportion of renewable energy in its energy mix to 23 per cent by 2025. However, as of 2020, renewable energy only takes u...

17 Feb 2023

...2025. Climate change is an important reason why. As a 2018 study by the United Nations Environment Programme showed, climate vulnerability raised the average cost of debt for a sample of developing ec...

15 Dec 2023

...2025 and to at least US$30bn per year by 2030”, according to the GBF’s Target 19l. Despite calls from many developing countries for a distinct fund housed under the COP, COP15 requested the Global Env...

22 Feb 2024

...2025. A particular focus of efforts to make food systems more climate-resilient are small-scale farmers, who produce about one-third of the world's food and are struggling disproportionately with clim...

12 Dec 2023

...2025 issuers must align their climate reporting with the global standards set out by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Low reporting levels on China’s mainland suggest th...

8 Jan 2024

...2025. In the G20 summit in India over the weekend, major economies worldwide pledged to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, but did not set new targets for ditching fossil fuels. Oil, in particu...

14 Sep 2023

Tambak Lorok Semarang Indonesia gas and floating solar

...2025, before almost quadrupling by 2040 if progressive policies are followed through. But observers say a key roadblock to clear is the need for better power grids, that can support more wind and sola...

6 Dec 2023

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...2025, would require establishing 9.29 million hectares (23 million acres) of new oil palm plantations — an area nearly the size of South Korea. New oil palm and sugarcane plantations are part of the g...

20 Nov 2024

Plastic bottles in Vietnam informal waste recycling facility

...2025, which was first mooted nearly two decades ago. While businesses have managed to get away without having to account for their externalities in the last century, it will become increasingly harder...

5 Dec 2023

...2025) set targets that would see carbon intensity and total coal consumption fall, the first half of 2023 has seen many provinces take advantage of rules allowing these factors to be ignored when deci...

22 Sep 2023

...2025 and enter into force in 2027. These measures will include a GHG fuel standard and some form of GHG pricing.” Alternative fuel solutions and operational changes While shipping has traditionally be...

7 Aug 2024

Palm oil plantation Kalimantan Indonesia

...2025. But there are also reservations on how onerous reporting obligations might get. Data collection and analysis are key challenges for Wilmar, as a large multinational company with complex supply c...

5 Oct 2023

...2025, emphasised Al Mubarak. In the latest Eco-Business Podcast, Middle East correspondent Rachel Kelly speaks to a representative from Goumbook, the social enterprise behind the Oceans Summit and an...

2 Aug 2024

COP27 article 6 implementation partnership

...2025 to decide on how many carbon credits to buy to offset their 2024 emissions. Much will depend on the exact rules settled upon by Singapore and its trade partners. The city-state has substantively ...

16 Oct 2023

...2025 and will enter into force in 2027. Going into the IMO talks, a shipping levy proposal championed by the Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands had gathered support from more than 20 nations at...

19 Jul 2023

...2025. The province has within its vicinity marine and wildlife reserves Gigantes and Danjugan islands, which face issues of pollution from settlements and conversion of land and marine territory. At...

28 Mar 2023

...2025. OCBC became a signatory to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a United Nations-convened initiative for banks to decarbonise the real economy, in October last year. OCBC's sectoral decarbonisa...

24 Jul 2023

...2025 – were approved by its creditors, based on an SPO conducted by sustainability consultancy Environmental Resource Management (ERM). When contacted by Eco-Business, ERM declined to comment on its S...

28 Aug 2024

...2025, and transformation of the financial system to deliver the economic shifts needed. Anne Rasmussen, Samoan lead negotiator representing The Alliance of Small Island States, said that the COP28 de...

14 Dec 2023

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