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COP30: Adopting an outcome on climate adaptation is a start for financing to flow towards Asean

A forest is engulfed in flames as a wildfire rages near Fontjoncouse, southwestern France, Aug 6, 2025. The summer of 2025, marked by two heatwaves, was the third hottest on record in France since French weather forecast agency Meteo-France began measuring temperatures in 1900.

Earth cannot ‘sustain’ intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30

CapitaLand Investment emits about four times as much carbon dioxide as Mapletree Investments.
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Issue 170: Potential CapitaLand, Mapletree merger’s ESG challenge; COP30 confronts US pullback

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Masnawati, one of the farmers who is working with Mars to improve his crop yield. Through the candy maker's initiatives, farmers are taught that cocoa can be grown with other crops, such as banana and avocado.

Chocolate therapy: Indonesia’s cocoa farmers learn new ways to boost crop yields

NEA said that International Carbon Credits (ICCs) are one of the pathways to achieve Singapore’s 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution and 2050 net zero ambition.

NEA appoints carbon-rating service providers to help meet 2030 climate targets

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Nuclear education needed in Singapore as Asean neighbours explore deployment: Tan See Leng

China accounts for almost 30 per cent of global emissions, meaning the speed at which it can reduce pollution has huge ramifications for efforts to limit global warming.

China climate experts see top polluter beating emissions goal

The COP29 gathering in Baku ended with developed nations agreeing to provide US$300 billion annually in climate finance to poorer countries by 2035, a figure criticised as way below what is needed to meet the challenge.

World has tools to unlock US$1.3 trillion in climate finance: COP30 report

In addition to being the world’s second-largest polluter, the US is also a major oil and gas producer, providing power both domestically and to other countries.

US economy wins from green exit, unless the world follows suit

Australia has more than four million rooftop solar panels, which can generate so much power during the day that wholesale prices drop below zero.

Australia mandates free power in world first to soak up solar, reduce living costs

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