Eco-Business

Cities: Possibilities 2024 closing plenary

The financing gap for infrastructure projects might have come under the spotlight recently, but experts at the Cities: Possibilities 2024 forum say the key barriers to building better cities are not money or the lack of technical solutions, but political cycles that reward short-termism.

EB Studio Southeast Asia is a particularly vulnerable region to climate threats. Digital solutions may be key to helping the region shore up resilience against economic losses and increasing climate-induced extreme weather events.

Ho Xiang Tian delivering a speech at a climate rally in Singapore in September 2023.

The Sustainability Leadership A-List Youth winner tells Eco-Business about the Singapore he wants to see: a carbon-neutral decarbonisation pioneer that has stopped financing fossil fuels in Southeast Asia.

EB Studio In the wake of the world’s first Article 6 transaction between Thailand and Switzerland South Pole’s regional policy director Karolien Casaer-Diez reflects on how the rise of carbon markets in Asia, combined with effective regulation, may hold the key to reducing the region’s carbon emissions.

By Ng Wai Mun

By Rhick Lars Albay

By Samantha Ho and Raja Aiman

By Robin Hicks

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Fixing air pollution in Jakarta will require big changes in the transport sector.

The Indonesian capital’s air quality is already bad. Emissions from vehicles commuting from its fringes worsens the situation. By Driejana Driejana

Yes, systemic change is our end-goal. But let’s not discount the value of individual action in making that possible. By Terese Anne Teoh

Future projections of electric mobility are promising, but uptake in the region will depend heavily on the strategic decisions and actions of its key stakeholders—industry, government, and consumers. By Zulfikar Yurnaidi and Justin Sitohang

Normal contributed to this pandemic. Governments should direct stimulus measures towards a greener and more equitable normal. By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Inger Andersen

By Jason Pomeroy

By Aaron Bernstein

By Jonathan Daly, Kim Dovey and Quentin Stevens

By Ben Welle and Sergio Avelleda

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With a vision to end the drudgery of manual rickshaw pulling, social enterprise SMV Green is also helping restore clean air in one of India's most polluted cities through electric rickshaws.

EB Studio About four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by 2050 will live in East or Southeast Asia, creating an urgent need climate-smart solutions for cities. This year’s Innovate4Climate summit will look at the climate-smart solutions the region needs.

The Proterra Catalyst E2 Max electric bus has broken the world record for driving the longest distance on a single charge.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the Earth’s average global surface temperature could rise more than 4 degrees Celsius or 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. These videos attempt to show how that looks like.

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EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In this concluding episode of the Let’s Write the Future series, we explore how the rise of renewable energy, the electrification of transport and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are changing our lives, cities, and the world.

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