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Why are nature protection funds not reaching indigenous peoples?

...2025. But research released this week by the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) said that just 17 per cent of about $2.7 billion invested by donors betwee...

21 Sep 2022

Why are nature protection funds not reaching indigenous peoples?

News / Food & Agriculture

Plastic from greenhouse boom blights Vietnam’s vegetable basket

...2025 and a vision for 2030. The document acknowledges that the province currently has no regulations on the management and construction of greenhouses, and that local authorities do not have effective...

4 Jul 2022

Plastic from greenhouse boom blights Vietnam’s vegetable basket

News / Energy

Low funding priority and awareness hindering methane abatement in Southeast Asia's oil and gas sector

...2025, and reduce it further to 70 per cent by 2030. State-owned companies such as Petronas, Pertamina and PTT have also set 2050 net zero targets, albeit for internal operations only. Experts say regu...

22 Jun 2023

Low funding priority and awareness hindering methane abatement in Southeast Asia's oil and gas sector

Labourers carry baskets of coal in Tamil Nadu, India.

News / Energy

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

...2025 earlier this year. Singh's comments come a month after plans emerged to build two nuclear facilities in Madhya Pradesh in central India. Singh said a new generation of smaller-scale nuclear plant...

19 Sep 2022

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

Press Releases / Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric moves forward with its sustainability impact targets, mobilising support from employees, partners and customers

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, published today its half-year progress overview on setting up and advancing on its 2021-2025 sustainab...

25 Aug 2021

Schneider Electric moves forward with its sustainability impact targets, mobilising support from employees, partners and customers

News / Energy

White gold and its green challenges

...2025 production target of lithium carbonate that will produce tens of millions of tonnes of waste annually – far more than can be handled locally. Constraints in lithium extraction from brines The oth...

16 Jun 2023

White gold and its green challenges

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The COP of no return

...2025, and they should provide the assurances needed for the Green Climate Fund’s new replenishment. And the time has come to address the loss and damage suffered by countries that did not cause the cl...

11 Oct 2022

The COP of no return

News / Water

Thailand’s EV push may worsen water shortages in the east

...2025 to promote the use of EVs. “Amid the one-sided information, we found that there’s no necessary information available for the public to monitor EEC policy, including basic details of each project ...

27 Dec 2022

Thailand’s EV push may worsen water shortages in the east

News / Waste

Thai trash collectors threatened by continued waste imports

...2025. The SRTA and others involved want the ban to go into effect before the end of this year. “The problem is that the price [that collectors are paid] for waste mostly goes down, often several baht ...

10 Dec 2021

Thai trash collectors threatened by continued waste imports

Employees work on their laptops at the Start-up Village, India

News / Policy & Finance

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

...2025, some 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift to machines, while 97 million new roles related to machines and algorithms may emerge, WEF noted. Malaysia last year launched its digital economy...

8 Mar 2022

Asian workers pushed to upskill as pandemic quickens digital shift

News / Energy

Stars aligning for rooftop solar push amid recession fears

...2025, up from a low base of 60 megawatts in mid-2022, according to the German-Indonesian chamber of industry and commerce. Rooftop solar capacity in the Philippines was estimated at around 100 megawat...

10 Jan 2023

Stars aligning for rooftop solar push amid recession fears

Press Releases / U.S. Embassy Jakarta

United States announces partnership to reduce ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia

...2025, 68 per cent of Indonesia’s more than 270 million people are expected to live in urban areas, where only about half of the waste is collected. “The Government of Indonesia is increas...

4 Aug 2022

United States announces partnership to reduce ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia

News / Energy

Singapore scales up hydrogen fuel plans, pledges 2030 emissions cuts

...2025 and drop by over 40 per cent in 2030. Climate activists have said that Singapore should adopt this pledge, given the country’s wealth and technological know-how. Melissa Low, a research fellow at...

25 Oct 2022

Singapore scales up hydrogen fuel plans, pledges 2030 emissions cuts

News / Policy & Finance

How will India achieve the new global goals for nature?

...2025 and at least USD 30 billion by 2030 towards implementation of national biodiversity action plans and strategies in developing countries. Overall, countries pledged to mobilise at least USD 200 bi...

30 Jan 2023

How will India achieve the new global goals for nature?

Vivien Teu, head of asset management and ESG, Dentons Hong Kong,

News / Policy & Finance

Asian bankers with ESG job titles under pressure to sell products they 'don't fully understand'

...2025, when they will represent more than a third of the $140.5 trillion assets under management.

28 Jun 2022

Asian bankers with ESG job titles under pressure to sell products they 'don't fully understand'

News / Energy

Vietnam’s draft power plan favours coal, but who will pay?

...2025 and beyond, the draft PDP8 plans a further 10 coal projects although half have not secured funding. Springer says they are unlikely to proceed. “Who will finance these plants if China walks away?...

16 Nov 2022

Vietnam’s draft power plan favours coal, but who will pay?

News / Energy

Indonesia to make major green energy deal with rich nations at G20

...2025, but has only reached about 12 per cent so far. Clorinda Wibowo, an energy expert at the World Resources Institute Indonesia, said Jakarta would likely announce at the G20 summit a list of coal p...

21 Oct 2022

Indonesia to make major green energy deal with rich nations at G20

News / Cities

Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

...2025 will have an opportunity to extend their contracts. These firms are expected to contribute 70 per cent of national coal production. As of April 2020, the government had granted three PKP2B contra...

19 Jan 2023

Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

Singapore smart city and deep-tech development

News / Carbon & Climate

Tapping deep-tech to solve the world’s biggest problems

...2025 (RIE2025) has a hefty S$25 billion (US$18 billion) committed to it through to 2025, covering what are deemed ‘strategic’ sectors such as healthcare, sustainability and manufacturing. Despite mark...

24 Mar 2022

Tapping deep-tech to solve the world’s biggest problems

Research / WWF-Singapore

Delivering on circularity - feasibility study for reusable e-commerce packaging in Singapore

...2025. But packaging required for e-commerce delivery is not environmentally friendly and the waste it creates is likely to increase in the next few years. This project aims to study the feasibility of...

28 Dec 2021

Delivering on circularity - feasibility study for reusable e-commerce packaging in Singapore

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