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CRIEnglish.com, 18 Mar 2011The Singapore government said on Friday that the local radiation levels stayed normal.The National Environment Agency said the average level in the city state, about 5,000 km away from Japan's Fukushima, stays at about 0.1 microsievert per hour, adding that there is minimal risk of Singapore being affected by the radiation leak in Japan.The agency said it was closely

Eco-business.com, 11 Mar 2011Singapore, March 11 - Adopting an environmentally sustainable approach to doing business has become increasingly important to companies worldwide.A soon-to-be-released report by KPMG has found that 62 per cent of companies surveyed have a corporate sustainability strategy, an almost 12 per cent increase from a similar 2008 survey. Full story

Eco-business.com, 5 Mar 2011Singapore, March 5 - Households will be encouraged to recycle more through incentives given by waste-collection companies.The requirement to provide incentives, starting from July, will be stipulated when public waste collection contracts with companies are renewed. Full story

Envirotech Online, 4 Mar 2011A UK organisation which specialises in climate change studies could provide a boost to air quality in Singapore.The Met Office's Hadley Centre has entered into a partnership with the nation in a bid to find ways to develop climate policies within the country, Channel News Asia reports.Despite acquiring the help of the UK body, environment and water resources minister

Eco-business.com, 4 Mar 2011Singapore, March 4 - With more construction sites sprouting around Singapore, national water agency PUB has been busy working with contractors in the past five years to protect the waterways.As a result, closed-circuit television cameras, water treatment plants at construction sites and silt curtains have been introduced at these sites to prevent silt from polluting

Eco-business.com, 1 Mar 2011Singapore, March 1 - Economic progress and environmental development must always go hand in hand, and this is especially important for a small country like Singapore, said Tan Gee Paw, chairman of Public Utilities Board (PUB).Describing the relationship between economic development and the environment as ‘both a partnership and a conflict’, Mr Tan said: ‘If we do not

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Eco-business.com, 18 Feb 2011Singapore, February 18 - Singapore has offered to collaborate with Indonesia on a second project in the fire-prone Sumatra region, a source of much of the haze that has come this way since the early 1990s.Talks between government officials, which are at an exploratory stage, have identified the vast South Sumatra province as a possible area for the new collaboration.

Monsters and Critics, 14 Feb 2011Singapore - Singapore was ranked Asia's greenest metropolis for its work on environmental sustainability, a study released Monday found. The Asian Green City Index, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the German company Siemens AG, examined the environmental performance of 22 Asian cities in eight categories, including energy, land use

Eco-business.com, 14 Feb 2011Singapore, February 12 - American electric car company Tesla Motors is pulling the plug on plans to market its zippy, battery-powered sports cars to the wealthy and environmentally hip here - just six months after setting up an office at Suntec to do just that. It will pack up next week, without having sold a single car. Full story

Eco-business.com, 9 Feb 2011Singapore, February 9 - It has been a long time coming, but Singapore is poised to raise emission standards for petrol vehicles here - something it has not done in 10 years.The new standard, called Euro IV, will apply only to new vehicles. It will cut the amount of harmful pollutants in the air, including substances that can cause cancer and respiratory ailments. Full

Eco-business.com, 25 Jan 2011Singapore, January 25 – Singapore is making its mark in the region in green building certification, with its government-led Green Mark scheme being sought by overseas building owners across the region.President of the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) Lee Chuan Seng said demand has increased for the Building and Construction Authority’s (BCA’s) green building

Eco-business.com, 23 Jan 2011Here in Singapore, an island state traditionally isolated from the more devastating disasters such as earthquakes, opinions may also be changing when it comes to getting insurance coverage. ‘The floods in Singapore (last year), though small in the overall regional context, were an eye-opener as the perception traditionally here was that we are somehow immune to

Eco-business.com, 19 Jan 2011Two Singapore-based clean-technology companies will benefit from a new certification scheme kicked off today for environmentally friendly food courts.The Singapore Environment Council (SEC) launched a certification scheme to boost the environmental practices of Singapore’s ubiquitous and much-loved food courts. Full story

Eco-business.com, 17 Jan 2011Singapore, January 17 - HarbourFront Centre, formerly known as Singapore’s World Trade Centre, has become one of the oldest buildings to win the Green Mark Platinum Award from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA).The Platinum standard is the highest rating under the BCA’s Green Mark scheme, introduced in 2005 to improve the environmental performance of the

Gulf Times, 15 Jan 2011Al Haya Waste Management and Projects has announced that its first shipment of electronic waste to Singapore had been cleared by the Singapore’s National Environmental Agency .The company has credited Qatar’s Ministry of Environment and its official Dr Rashid al-Kuwari for the support extended to it in this regard. Full story

Eco-business.com, 31 Dec 2010Some firms are bursting with promise while the future of others is fraught with uncertainty as the green sector treads gingerly beyond 2010.For several companies this year, it has been a case of pain before gain. The trek to promising times has been riddled with bottom lines sinking ever further into the red.Solar thin-film company Anwell Technologies Ltd, for example

Eco-business.com, 30 Dec 2010Singapore, December 30 - When it comes to good, clean air, Singapore trumps many of its South-east Asian neighbours, but its air quality still falls short of world standards.Blame the haze, a burgeoning car population, construction boom and growing industrial hubs like Jurong Island - all of which could potentially churn out plenty of smog that could have an impact on

Eco-business.com, 18 Dec 2010Singapore, December 18 - If Singapore were a trembling student, being graded on how sustainable it is as a city, its report card might well read: room for improvement.That is how Professor Steffen Lehmann, who specialises in sustainable design and behaviour at the University of South Australia, sees it. Full story

Asia Sentinel, 13 Dec 2010Hundreds of sleep-deprived delegates from 192 nations gave themselves a standing ovation at 3:30 on Saturday morning after days of intensive negotiations over United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.But in reality, the agreements were watered-down, toothless texts that defer all major decisions to next year and seek to provide a smokescreen for the