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The multi-tranche Sustainability Bond, arranged by BNP Paribas (BNPP) and issued by TLFF I Pte Ltd, will fund PT Royal Lestari Utama (RLU), an Indonesian joint venture between France's Michelin and Indonesia's Barito Pacific Group for climate-smart, wildlife friendly, socially inclusive production of natural rubber in Jambi, Sumatra and East Kalimantan provinces. This is the first corporate sustainability bond in Asia and the first sustainability…

As chair of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year, Singapore will also host a special ministerial meeting on climate change in July, announced Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli on Friday (Jan 26).Speaking at the launch event for the Year of Climate Action held at the Singapore Sustainability Academy, Mr Masagos said Singapore’s journey to fight climate change is…

Diggins is also an advocate for climate action. I interviewed her to understand more about why she believes winter is worth protecting. (The following has been condensed and edited.) How has climate change affected you? Over the last 10 years, it has been hard to ski on real snow. Over the last three years, most venues have been exclusively on man-made snow. And in places…

This comes after the Finance Ministry was reported to have engaged over 50 of them to do the same for the Budget process. A Mewr spokesman told The Straits Times that it has paid 28 micro-influencers, with a combined reach of 100,000, for a three-month marketing campaign which started last month. According to a Forbes article, micro-influencers refer to everyday consumers who have a following…

For BSP, responsible means respecting national laws and international standards, matching or exceeding global best practice and setting our own rigorous performance standards. Our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people underpin our decisions and actions. Being responsible also means understanding the impact BSP can have on the environment and the communities we share it with – before, during and at the end…

The world is already struggling to produce enough healthy food for everyone, as the global population continues to boom. To feed this rapidly rising number, Stordalen says nutrition experts need to borrow the climate change movement’s model. That means involving representatives from every relevant sector to set clear targets based on scientific evidence and then hold themselves accountable. Stordalen spoke to Malnutrition Deeply in Davos…

The Sydney-based financial green group has shared exclusive data with Eco-Business that shows that DBS Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) and United Overseas Bank (UOB)—Singapore’s big three banks—have provided loans to 21 coal power projectstotallingUS$2.29 billion over the last five years. These projects—mainly large-scale coal-burning facilities in Indonesia and Australia—throw shade on the banks’ responsible lending policies and public commitments to reduce carbon emissions…

However, the island is vulnerable to another effect of climate change: rising sea levels, which cause coastal floods and erosion. The country is taking steps to strengthen its defenses against this. An ongoing, first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) will form the national framework for coastal protection measures. The authority did not provide details on what measures are being looked at…

One popular tool to predict species responses is the thermal performance curve (TPC) framework. Biologists simply expose the creatures to a wide range of temperatures and then measure responses that say something about their wellbeing. Using this framework, performance traits such as behavior and physiology are often studied, with consensus suggesting the thermal matching of these two responses. In other words, the temperatures at which…

The valley, roughly 21 km to the northwest of Điện Biên Phủ City, has gotten warmer over the last decade. The ethnic minority families who were born and grew up in the valley, in poverty, had relied mainly on a single summer-autumn rice season to make a living as the winter was too cold to plant anything. Now they have managed to double their incomes…

Something about the project captivated Delano, an American photographer based in Tokyo, who said he had been playing with the idea of starting a similar feed but about the environment. He had been documenting climate impacts for several years, capturing billowing smoke from coal factories in China and the decimation of rainforest in Southeast Asia, for example. As such human activities contribute to rising global…