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The Climate Conversations: How green can ride-hailing get, and can Grab show the way? | EP 43

The Climate Conversations

Ride-hailing companies like Grab and Gojek have announced a flurry of climate commitments in the form of electric vehicles or carbon offsets, including plans for fleets to run on clean energy by 2030. What sort of dent will they make in cutting emissions? What will a switch to electric vehicles mean for private hire drivers and consumers? And how does ride-hailing fit into Singapore’s car-lite vision? Jaime Ho speaks to Andrew Chan, Managing Director of Transport at Grab Singapore in this week’s episode.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: Monetary Authority of Singapore chief Ravi Menon on why climate change is also an existential crisis for the financial sector | EP 31

Singapore’s central bank chief Ravi Menon speaks to Jaime Ho on why climate risks are financial risks, how the financial sector can be a tool for the green agenda and why he’s positive Singapore can be a global leader in green finance.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: What does eating chili crab have to do with climate change? | EP 30

Jaime Ho speaks to Neo Xiaoyun and Aidan Mock about their essays in the book Eating Chili Crab In The Anthropocene. They discuss the links between daily choices and sustainability, and give their take on the fossil fuel industry and the Singapore Government's climate strategy.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: 2 degrees of separation: What’s behind the number in the limit to temperature rise? | EP 29

In this episode, Jaime Ho talks to Dr Winston Chow about numbers. 2 degrees Celsius is the limit that scientists, activists and governments have been focusing on in capping the rise in global temperatures. And what about 1.5 degrees Celsius? We drill down to the science, the politics and the real human impacts of a warmer world.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: From an energy reset to building a green economy, Chan Chun Sing outlines the path to 2030 and beyond | EP 28

The Minister for Trade and Industry speaks to Jaime Ho on how the government plans to build and pay for a new green economy, the oncoming energy “reset” and how discussions are made about trade-offs in Cabinet.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: Climate change and the law: What's next as national courts, international law and climate action intersect? | EP 27

As environmental groups, activists and communities turn to the law to force climate action from governments and corporations, Jaime Ho speaks to environment and climate change lawyer Jolene Lin on what this means, and how these trends compare between Asia, Europe and the United States.

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