by Abriel | Feb 20, 2018 | 2018, Climate Action, Singapore Budget 2018
A tax will never be welcome, but it can be timely. The carbon tax that Singapore will levy on large polluters from 2019 is one such example. The tax comes against a backdrop of rising temperatures and increasingly erratic weather. As Singapore marks its Year of...
by Abriel | Feb 20, 2018 | 2018, Climate Action, Singapore Budget 2018
The carbon tax that Singapore will implement from 2019 will mainly affect large polluters, but households are also expected to feel the knock-on effects. The carbon tax, levied on facilities that produce 25,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions in a year,...
by Abriel | Sep 14, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
China plans to roll out the use of ethanol fuel nationally by 2020, as Beijing intensifies its push to boost industrial demand for corn and clean up choking smog. It is the first time the government has set a targeted timeline for pushing the biofuel, known as E10 and...
by Abriel | Sep 10, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
As with the rest of the world, Singapore, too, will face more extreme conditions as the world warms, experts told The Sunday Times as recent weather events continue to wreak havoc in the northern hemisphere. The devastating Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms...
by Abriel | Aug 21, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
A controversial California climate program got a shot of good news this month when a study suggested it is successfully reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and providing other environmental benefits on the side. The study, conducted by a trio of Stanford...
by Abriel | Aug 18, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
The United States (U.S.) Navy is raising its bases, using early storm warning systems, and increasingly power its missions with the sun, instead of fossil fuels. Just like other organisations, whether they are commercial firms or the U.S. military, have not only...
