绿色建筑 新闻
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.
政策和金融
Aggressive hiring of sustainability talent from consultancies is creating expertise gap: recruiter
The industry is "eating itself" as companies find that there is a hollowing out of sustainability talent with specialist knowledge in consultancy firms, said Paddy Balfour from recruiting firm Acre at the ReThink conference in Hong Kong.
The Kau Yi Chau artificial islands project, proposed to ease the territory's housing crisis, endangers marine life and is not aligned with net zero goals, say non-governmental organisations. Developers say they will avoid environmentally sensitive areas.
Coal-fired power is still growing in China, but the latest statistics indicate that Beijing could have been telling local governments to go slow on the rubber stamping of new coal projects. The world’s biggest polluter also recently suspended its system for approving new steel plants.
绿色建筑 观点
But helping millions more women protect their livelihoods and their health in the face of unrelenting heat requires more funding.
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Indonesia's soaring post-pandemic digital economy is being powered mainly by coal. The archipelago needs to find ways to decouple rapid data centre growth from carbon emissions.
碳与气候
I am proud of how far Singapore has come. But let’s not trade liveability for short-term returns
In a speech at Singapore's climate rally, Madhumitha Ardhanari asked her audience to dream of a Singapore that thrives within planetary boundaries, is a better regional environmental neighbour, and reconsiders what progress means beyond economic growth.
绿色建筑 视频
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Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.
After two months of searching for sustainability solutions and a showdown between six finalists, the finale of The Liveability Challenge 2018 culminated in a proposal for biodegradable straws winning nearly a million dollars.
Welcoming 3,800 people this year, the carbon neutral, zero waste festival has grown six-fold since its first edition in 2015.
No hot air here: Researchers from the National University of Singapore produce the first prototype of a new, environmentally friendly air conditioner in what could be a “quantum leap” in the 100-year old technology.
绿色建筑 播客
Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.
Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.
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The built environment's sprawling carbon footprint can be reined in by giving old buildings a 'climate makeover' as cities grow. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to Vinod Jethani about the benefits and challenges of retrofitting old buildings.
Eco-Business talks to environmental psychologist Dr Denise Dillon about Singapore's uncomfortable relationship with nature, whether loving nature is essential for conservation, and why climate anxiety might actually be a good thing.
绿色建筑 新闻发布稿
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Indonesia’s new capital city Nusantara can pioneer sustainable and clean urban construction in Southeast Asia
绿色建筑 研究
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