December 9, 2019
China’s CSR landscape has changed almost as much as its urban skylines over the last decade, but the next ten years should bring even faster progress. China’s people and their leaders are no longer willing to allow companies to ignore their operations’ impact on human and environmental welfare.… Read More
November 29, 2019
GDP is an imperfect metric. But it continues to be used as a benchmark for national performance and policymaking in an era of social, economic, and environmental disruption.… Read More
October 29, 2019
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee is expected to study several important issues on upholding and perfecting socialism with Chinese characteristics and modernizing the national governance system and governance capability. The plenum is also likely to propose policies to ensure the CPC is governed “in accordance with law”.… Read More
October 9, 2019
NITI Aayog’s strategy for water resources is a continuation of failed policies of the past.… Read More
September 28, 2019
Managing floods and soaring temperatures in Singapore under climatic uncertainties will be a huge challenge for Singapore but the biggest impediment to tackling climate change wholeheartedly is mindsets.
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August 5, 2019
Singapore’s road to water security holds one major lesson to other nations: technology alone is not enough.… Read More
July 9, 2019
As economic opportunities and the lure of modern lifestyle draw people to cities, the global trend of urbanization continues unabated even though the systems to support the consumption patterns of today’s urban dwellers are strained by overburdened infrastructure and fiscal limitations. … Read More
July 4, 2019
Chennai is one of India’s largest cities and it’s been crippled by water shortages. Several of its reservoirs are empty, and its taps are running dry.… Read More
June 13, 2019
Rivers are important to the Chinese people, for domestic, agriculture, industrial and recreational uses. Unfortunately, more than three decades of continuous breakneck is creating serious problems of water availability and pollution.… Read More
June 13, 2019
Cecilia Tortajada is the new member of the Millennium Technology Prize’s International Selection Committee. She works on impacts of global changes, water resources, environment, food and energy at National University of Singapore. “I expect this prize to stress the social value of technological development even further and how it has been used to improve the quality of life of human kind”, she says.… Read More