Singapore remains committed to #climate action, pursuing cross-border efforts via carbon trading agreements with 10 countries. However, recognizing emissions cuts are insufficient, Singapore will publish its national #adaptation plan in 2027 to protect infrastructure, public health, and coastlines.

There can be beauty in hope: these restored stepwells look architecturally fascinating.

“If a city is bold enough to create aggressive climate and decarbonization mandates, the private sector will come up with technology and business solutions to respond.”

The South Australian government was criticised in the past for driving up electricity prices with its rapid adoption of #renewable #energy. At times, the state experienced spikes in electricity prices when the wind wasn’t blowing or the sun shining, and it had to fall back on expensive gas energy.

Time will tell. I suspect, sadly, that there needs to be an accumulative effect.

Spain has called the “fight against #disinformation” a top priority after witnessing a surge in hate speech directed at #climate #scientists. This is primarily on X, fka Twitter. And yet, Elon Musk declared that “climate change is real” in 2017, and unabated CO2 emissions a “dangerous experiment”.

The impacts of #climate change are occurring sooner than expected, but governments and businesses continue to underestimate the #risks, which could add up to trillions of dollars in #economic losses by 2050.

“Some of the most #resilient countries are smaller ones. Dinosaurs grew too large and vanished; smaller organisms evolved and thrived. #Adaptation is the pathway to resilience, which can be measured by indicators such as #energy self-sufficiency, quality of governance, and social progress."

Scientists warn that our understanding and perception of climate-fuelled risks are “limited and flawed” and could delay necessary climate action. Even when people recognise the real risks posed by climate change, many seem to perceive these risks as primarily affecting others.

A sad state of affairs for Southeast #Asia at the end of 2025. #Adaptation and #resilience must attract more attention going forward, even while accelerating mitigation efforts.

Carbon capture was meant to help fix past emissions — not replace real cuts to fossil fuels. ECI Director Michael Obersteiner talks to Bloomberg UK about how negative emissions reshaped climate policy — and why we should be cautious ahead of #COP30. Read more: www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/scienti...

The Norwegian research and intelligence company Rystad Energy recently released their new flagship report, Global Energy Scenarios 2025, on the next era of the global energy system. Rystad has constructed a Decarbonization Index based on three tasks:

The words “colonial leverage” in the subtitle detract from what is otherwise an excellent analysis, and perhaps reflect Western fears of tables being turned. “ #Decarbonisation, by this logic, is statecraft, not #climate stewardship.” I think it’s both, which makes it even more strategic.

Interesting that Japanese investors consider the tech startup ecosystem in their own country to still be immature. Still, the facts are clear: there are over twice as many VC-backed startups in Europe than in Japan, per capita, and 4.3 times more unicorns. It’s likely even more skewed for greentech.

Google released today a white paper on "Assessing Biological Ecosystems in Consumer Electronics Supply Chains: Northern Việt Nam Case Study", which details a novel approach to measuring and managing our ecosystem impacts within our consumer electronics supply chain. Key learnings are:

With COP30 about to get underway, Google has just announced yesterday the three ways we’re accelerating global action for our planet, leveraging environmental data and AI technologies to help nature and people flourish together.

There is an increasing number of AI applications for grid management, and smart grids in ASEAN can help avoid losses from disruptions as well as create new economic opportunities and jobs. Congratulations to @ember-energy.org on this latest study.

“We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism.” Let’s hope not, but lots of changes are definitely underway.

A study by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social and @bokuvienna.bsky.social finds that 60% of global land areas are now already outside the safe zone, and 38% are even in the high-risk zone. This points to the link between biomass and natural carbon sinks, which can contribute to mitigating climate change.

The collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current, can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event. This is according to a study published on August 29 via @ioppublishing.bsky.social. The tipping point may be reached in the next decade or two.

An exciting announcement from the Korea Energy Super Week in Busan that just ended. It was great to get to hang out with KAIST's Associate Professor Haewon McJeon. @hmcjeon.bsky.social

As the saying goes, if #climate change is a shark, then #water is its teeth. 🦈 Water is increasingly seen as a critical theme for adaptation efforts, especially in #Asia Pacific. Let's make sure technology and entrepreneurial energy are harnessed to provide innovative solutions at scale.

When livelihoods depend on extractive, unsustainable industries, there are tough tradeoffs: @theguardian.com Iraq’s marshes were considered an Eden with wetlands teeming with fish and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water.

As the effects of climate change are felt across the Pacific, #Fiji has become an authority on the logistically and culturally fraught process of community relocation.

Singapore could be the “most perfect example” of a country that needs nuclear energy given its territorial limitations, energy requirements, technological base and institutional maturity, said the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave.

“Change is expensive, risky, and often unnecessary – until it’s too late.” Climate chaos is threatening #Pakistan’s food security. Can this nuclear-armed nation adapt in time? The hydrology of the Indus River basin, which extends into northwest #India, is exhibiting signs of growing instability.

ERM summarized their 5 key takeaways from London Climate Action Week, with the benefit of over 50 of their leaders and experts on the ground: 1️⃣ Navigate volatility: companies need to reframe and retool their approaches to sustainability during this time of change www.erm.com/insights/vol...

As they say: if #climate change is the shark, then #water is its teeth. This is especially true in Southeast #Asia which is starting to see increasing water stress due to both human factors (e.g. loss, waste, and inefficiency) as well as the changing climate. www.sif.org.sg/form/SEAPAW-...

Here's a new piece of research that highlights the benefits of hourly-matched 24/7 carbon-free energy, vs. the currently more common practice of annual matching, with #India as the reference market. Hourly matching enables a more efficient, cost-effective use of renewable energy and storage assets.

David Suzuki: “We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems. For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down. The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together.”

Granular Certificates (GCs) are a system of timestamped energy certificates that track the production and consumption of clean energy on a granular, e.g. hourly or sub-hourly, basis. As a GC Trading Alliance member, Google is proud to support this initiative to make GCs more widely available.

At Google, we’re working to scale new approaches to remove billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Today, alongside other Frontier buyers, we announced a deal with Arbor Energy to commercialize their technology, which uses waste biomass to deliver both carbon removal and clean energy at scale.

This article points out that #Asia Pacific has the opportunity to lead in scaling up CO2 removal (CDR) solutions, and that momentum in the region is building through bold corporate commitments, enabling policies, and partnerships. APAC is well-positioned for nature- and bio-based pathways for CDR.

#Google‘s 10th annual Environmental Report was released yesterday: it shows how we’re making AI helpful for everyone—including the planet—while at the same time taking meaningful steps toward our environmental ambitions. Read the report and engage with it in new AI-enabled ways here: goo.gle/4eyEugQ

Swiss Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, published last week their 2025 SONAR report on the top eight emerging risks. The report is meant to help businesses and insurers prepare for future challenges, and this year the first two are related to climate change:

#Indonesia is inviting foreign investors to finance an $80 billion seawall to shield coasts from floods. The proposed seawall will stretch across several hundred kilometres of the north coast of Java, and take 20 years to build. #Climate #adaptation will take many forms, let’s see if this will work.

Excellent report on an insightful study that features interactive data visualization: 👉A lot of the sinking cities are in #Asia or South-East Asia 👉Almost half of Jakarta now sits below sea level, and there are parts of the city that are today 4m lower than they were in 1970. A new capital, anyone?

#Bangkok’s traffic engineers started working with #Google’s Project Green Light three months ago to optimize the city’s traffic lights, and they’ve now deployed our AI-based recommendations to >50 intersections and counting. pr-bangkok.com?p=494592

@edhawkins.org first published his now famous #climate stripes in 2018. These were based on annual global average temperatures on the surface of the Earth starting from 1850, and were an electrifying example of the power of data visualization, conveying compellingly the underlying #warming trend.

Thanks to @dianaurge.bsky.social for sharing her summary of this study, which makes the case that even current levels of #warming (+1.2 °C above pre-industrial) may be too high to prevent long-term sea-level rise from ice sheet collapse. A ‘safe’ global mean temperature may be +1 °C, or even lower.

While the movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is an absurdist comedy, the risk of #weather shocks everywhere, all at once, is not an amusing prospect. However, some researchers have concluded that the damage #climate change will inflict on the world’s economy has been massively underestimated.

“There’s more genetic variation in just one small population of wild chimpanzees than in the global population of Homo sapiens.” “As a species, humans are remarkably pox-ridden, worm-eaten and lousy.” I’m depressed already…

Congratulations to the @climategroup.bsky.social for a successful Asia Action Summit during #EcosperityWeek in #Singapore last week. It's time for #Asia to lead the world on climate: 60% of the world population, 50% of GHG emissions, and 6x greater vulnerability to extreme weather events.

🌡 The April 2025 Climate Bulletin is out. It was the second-warmest April globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 14.96°C, 0.60°C above the 1991-2020 average for April and 1.51°C above the pre-industrial level for the month. Read the details climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Key snow and ice datasets from @nsidc.bsky.social may no longer be maintained or updated after a loss of support from NOAA. eos.org/research-and...

As a warming planet drives growth in air conditioning, above all in #Asia Pacific, this has contributed to rising #emissions from increased electricity consumption on fossil fuel-dependent grids. www.linkedin.com/pulse/elimin...

What you don’t know can’t hurt you…

A recent article in @hbr.org on the current state of corporate #sustainability by the founding executive director of the UN Global Compact and the chair of the BCG Henderson Institute. The question is not whether sustainability will matter again, but whether your organization is ready when it does.

What will it mean if we know even more accurately how we are changing Earth? Will we take notice? Will we at least stop voting for politicians who don't want to know or just don't care? eos.org/articles/tra...