The Energy Efficiency Fund (E2F) in Singapore is an umbrella scheme consisting of 5 different grants to support businesses with industrial facilities to improve energy efficiency (EE). Energy Efficient Technologies grant support companies to adopt energy efficient equipment or technologies. The grant supports manufacturing companies to upgrade their equipment ahead of the carbon tax increase.…
The African Union has launched the Global Dialogue on Drug Demand Reduction between Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. It was launched on the side-lines of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP) conference “Uniting the Global Community to Face the Challenge of Addiction” which took place from May 12-16 in Abu Dhabi,…
The Jobs for Nature (J-NR) Rehabilitation Program in Fiji is a conservation initiative aimed to integrate and collaborate the ecosystem restoration needs with the genuine needs of the country’s local communities. The program promotes ecosystem restoration projects such as reforestation, mangrove and seagrass restoration, riverbank and coastal protection, and degraded land rehabilitation using sustainable agricultural…
The Shared Prosperity Vision as the country’s new direction was announced by the then Prime Minister of Malaysia during the tabling of the Mid-Term Review of the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (MTR 11MP) on 18 October 2018 in Parliament. Subsequently, the Shared Prosperity Vision’s basic framework was detailed by the Prime Minister in the Keynote Address…
Indonesia is the largest archipelago on the planet that consists of over 17000 islands. As such, the country faces a variety of threats from climate change that range from tsunamis to flooding and the vastness of the land complexity only complicates the situation. The frightful memory of the 2004 tsunami disaster where 100 ft high…