Views From The Top: Embarking on The Green Journey
< 1 minute of reading BBP contributed its views about carbon trading for The Business Times’ Views From The Top as follows: “Carbon trading, used in tandem with businesses’ sustainability roadmaps, could enable companies to work towards carbon neutrality in …
High costs and logistical issues: The challenges of greening Singapore’s older buildings
< 1 minute of reading Channel News Asia reported that it’s often much trickier to green older developments than new ones. CAN reports that till date, 43% of building spaces in Singapore have been greened and of the remaining 57%, …
Cutting carbon a new focus area for Singapore under five-year research masterplan
< 1 minute of reading The Straits Times has reported on several exciting new initiatives planned through the new Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan that the government of Singapore announced on Friday, December 11th. The RIE plan allocates …
The Power of Efficient Cooling
< 1 minute of reading The Economist’s Intelligence Unit has reported that a global transition to net-zero emissions can be accomplished better and more quickly by focusing on efficient cooling. HVAC systems are major producers of greenhouse gas emissions because …
Energy Efficiency Can Help Us Emerge from the Pandemic
< 1 minute of reading Lara Ettenson, the director of the Energy Efficiency Initiative at NRDC, writes that the COVID-19 crisis and issues of energy efficiency are closely related. Energy saving programs can lower consumers’ bills, create healthier living situations, …
Energy Efficiency Should Be Publicized More Than Renewables
< 1 minute of reading Francisco Zalduendo, a business strategist and renewable energy expert, writes about how the state of California created the California Energy Commission (CEC) after the United States had suffered from a recession and several energy scares …
