COP15
Biodiversity challenge gives clarion call for business
THE International Day for Biological Diversity next Monday (May 22) is perhaps the most important one yet, with an increasing number of scientists highlighting a sixth great extinction facing the plan...
Tackling nature’s demise as a key global business risk
FOR all the current discussion about “critical infrastructure”, the world’s most critical form of infrastructure is nature. Few statements underscore this more clearly than the warning issued in 2015 ...
Gearing up for the global nature economy
To remain a vibrant financial hub, Singapore needs to be ready as the world shifts towards new frameworks, markets and mechanisms to value nature and incentivise its repair.
Asset managers must sharpen their focus on biodiversity
A historic agreement to protect the natural world will usher in a new era for business. Acting now will help investors get ahead of the curve.
Nature can't wait: Will COP15 biodiversity pact spur fast action?
CHINA and Canada, which worked together to broker a landmark global deal to protect nature in December, now need to use their joint leadership to build momentum and help countries meet biodiversity go...
Six climate breakthroughs that made 2022 a step toward net zero
THE damage caused by climate change over this past year was at times so immense it was hard to comprehend. In Pakistan alone, extreme summer flooding killed thousands, displaced millions and caused ov...
Robot plant grows, wilts on fate of UN nature talks
It is not always easy to make sense of the complex environmental diplomacy taking place at a United Nations (UN) summit billed as humanity’s last hope to save nature.
‘Paris deal’ for nature is key for business too
THE world’s biodiversity crisis is “flashing red”, yet as representatives from nearly every country in the world gather this week in Montreal for the UN COP15 summit to tackle the issue, comprehensive...
