The green bond movement has been going strong for over a decade. Since the green bond market first opened in 2007, more than USD$1 trillion worth of green bonds have been issued globally as investors have started to see a sustainable future as a profitable one. You’d think a global pandemic – that has led […]

On October 29th 2020, the 19th Central Committee of the China Communist Party concluded its semi-annual plenum. The issue of discussion was to review the outline for the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP), the state’s vision of economic and social policy over the next five years. The 14th FYP, which will be released in March […]

From 2017 to 2018, the city of Cape Town in South Africa was in the throes of a drought so severe that authorities thought the city would completely run out of water, a day they had ominously dubbed “Day Zero.” The water levels of Cape Town’s major supply dams, which are sourced by rainfall, plunged. […]

Green hydrogen is a clean burning fuel that eliminates emissions by using renewable energy to electrolyse water, separating the hydrogen atom within it from its molecular twin oxygen.  — How Is It Made? The process of electrolysis has to happen. This process requires water, a big electrolyzer and plentiful supplies of electricity. if this electricity […]

Mitigation and adaptation are the two main approaches in addressing the climate crisis. Mitigation seeks to prevent further temperature rises by reducing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, while adaptation seeks to acclimatise societies to a world impacted by current climate change. Given the impending impacts of more severe global warming, governments cannot afford to slack off […]

According to satellite data, the Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019: an average of a million tons per minute throughout the year. The climate crisis is heating the Arctic region at double the rate than at lower latitudes, and the Greenland ice sheet will be one of the biggest contributors […]

The climate crisis is causing ancient permafrost to thaw, which could unleash viruses and bacteria that have been dormant for thousands of years, presenting a potentially catastrophic risk to humans and ecosystems alike. 

Single-use plastic is one of the greatest threats to the environment. According to the Hong Kong-based NGO OceansAsia, approximately 300 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide every year, with more than 8 million entering oceans annually- ultimately threatening the ecosystems of marine wildlife. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further exacerbate the scourge of plastic […]