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Five key points in the IPCC report on climate change impacts and adaptation

Source: The Conversation Online

The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looks at the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities associated with the climate crisis. SMU Associate Professor of…

UN report highlights cautionary tales of climate finance that backfires

Source: Reuters Online

Commenting on the report published on Monday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which found projects for planting trees in historically unforested areas or suppressing…

S-E Asia among regions hardest hit, must prioritise adaptation: Report

Source: The Straits Times

Commenting on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report showing South-east Asia among the regions of the world hardest hit by climate change, SMU Associate Professor of Science,…

How climate change will hit regions

Source: Newcastle Herald Online

Climate change will deliver serious blows to all parts of the world, but not all regions face the same threats, according to Monday's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).…

Race to reduce Singapore F1's carbon footprint a good start, but experts are mixed on its impact

Source: Channel News Asia Online

Commenting on criticism that the green push by Formula One (F1) motor racing is not moving fast enough and is not environmentally relevant, SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society…

Tempting to contempt – authentic or anathematic?

Source: Live Law Online

A recent study titled, "Jobs for Justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India", authored by SMU Associate Professor of Economics (Education) Madhav Shrihari Aney, SMU Assistant Professor of…

US comes a-courting in Asean as it pressures Beijing. What will it achieve?

Source: South China Morning Post Online

SMU Assistant Professor of Humanities Ngoei Wen-Qing explained why Southeast Asian leaders’ renewed confidence in the US is intertwined with worries about whether Washington will ultimately press…

From 1.2% to zero: What will it take to phase out coal from Singapore's energy mix?

Source: Channel News Asia Online

Commenting on Singapore's move to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance and phase out its own use of “unabated” coal power by 2050, SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston…

Interview with AP Winston Chow

Commenting on the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow said that the nationally determined conditions (…

Climate scientists' Nobel Prize win a first in 120 years

Source: The Straits Times Online

For the first time in the 120-year history of the scientific world's most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in physics was given to climate scientists. One of the laureates, Japanese-born American…

Confronting the climate crisis

Source: Channel News Asia

In an interview, SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow discussed amongst others the role of climate adaptation in reducing the impacts and risks that are driven from…

Alarms sound for global warming, Southeast Asian countries are coming together to prevent floods and heat

Source: Lianhe Zaobao

SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow, and one of the authors for the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, commented that with global…