UN’s Climate Deal on ‘Loss and Damage’
The world is falling short in its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and find solutions to adapting climate change. As temperatures continue to rise and threaten the lives as well as…
Kelvin Fu
COP27->COP28
Since 1995, the United Nations (UN) has been holding global climate summits known as the ‘Conference of the Parties’. And on 20 November 2022, the COP27, which took place in the Egyptian…
December 20, 2022December 19, 2022
Relooking Business Opportunities In The Climate Crisis
In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a Special Report on the potential impacts of global warming above 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. In May 2022, the World Meteorological Organization…
November 30, 2022November 30, 2022
3 Key Takeaways For Businesses From The 2022 GCNS Summit
The United Nations (UN) Global Compact is a voluntary initiative by the UN focused on driving sustainable business practices worldwide. Since the introduction of its governance framework in 2005, the UN Global Compact has…
November 22, 2022November 22, 2022
The Role of the Blue Economy in Singapore’s Sustainable Energy Transition
In the last 50 years, Singapore has pivoted from oil to natural gas as their main power source, in the hopes of cleaner power generation. As they look towards the future, the…
September 13, 2022September 13, 2022
Energy Efficiency Standards and Labelling (EESL) in ASEAN
As one of the most important participants in the global economy and energy portfolio, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was valued as the seventh-largest economy and fifth-largest investment destination in…
September 13, 2022September 13, 2022
The Importance Of Investing In Southeast Asia’s Climate Tech Solutions
According to a report by risk assessment firm Verisk Maplecroft, Asian cities face the most significant risk from environmental hazards due to climate change. Among other things, extreme heat, natural disasters, and air pollution…
August 29, 2022August 29, 2022
Reducing Embodied Carbon in Singapore’s Specialty Chemicals Sector
Ranking 126th out of 142 countries globally in terms of CO2 emissions per dollar GDP, the words that come to mind when atttemping to describe Singapore’s carbon footprint would be “efficient” and…
August 29, 2022August 29, 2022
The Environmental Impact Of NFTs
Mention the idea of non-fungible tokens (NFT) to anyone; chances are they will have heard of it in the past two years. That’s not surprising in the least, considering that 2021 saw…
August 10, 2022August 10, 2022
Climate Technology’s Role In Advancing To A Net-Zero Future
What Is Net Zero? In 2015, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) met in Paris and brokered a historic accord, The Paris Agreement. Chief among the long-term goals set out by the coalition…
August 10, 2022August 11, 2022
The Importance Of Investing In Social Infrastructure
The COVID-19 pandemic brought forth a whole host of complications as nations saw their borders being shuttered. Locally, the general populace were ushered into their homes and a mandatory quarantine was enforced…
July 5, 2022July 5, 2022
Implications of Singapore’s Carbon Tax Hike to the Economy
In 2019, Singapore made headline news as it became the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce carbon pricing. Used as an instrument to capture the external costs of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon…