"Given the extensive rainforest and peatland ecosystems within our region, and the economic contributions of its agribusiness and forestry sectors, we must continue to take action on driving Southeast Asia toward a higher standard of sustainability," said Associate Professor Simon Tay, Chairman of the SIIA...
Crucial to Singapore and ASEAN's efforts to decarbonise will be the establishment of regional carbon pricing systems and carbon offset markets, which ASEAN nations ought to work together to advance. This was among the key recommendations in the SIIA’s latest report, "Greening the Road Ahead:...
ASEAN countries will focus on treating COVID–19 as an endemic. “This is a point at which these countries have either explicitly, like Singapore and others, or implicitly recognised the need to move from the pandemic approach of trying to get to zero to an endemic approach,"...