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Energy

Huge financing gap for grid infrastructure as investors see unattractive returns: Indonesia’s state utility

The private sector is promised returns for power generation, but not grid deployment. State-owned PLN wants more innovative financing tools to build a 50,000 kilometre-long transmission network to distribute its growing green energy supply.
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Energy

Drilling rigs in nature reserves: Tensions heighten as Philippine clean energy projects encroach on conservation areas

Wind and solar expansion in the archipelago could mean renewables targets are met, but it has also worried environmentalists. A proposed wind farm in the Masungi Georeserve in Rizal province could impact up to a thousand hectares of karst landscape.
Google AI First workshop

Policy & Finance

Closing the AI skills gap: The next step for Singapore’s pursuit of sustainable economic growth?

EB Studio Artificial intelligence can be a force for good but there are challenges in building an AI-ready workforce. A new report sizes up Singapore’s AI opportunity and finds that Singapore businesses can gain up to S$198.3 billion in economic benefits in 2030 if they turn to AI-powered solutions.
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Cities

How cities around the world are finding ways to beat extreme heat

From white-painted roofs to ponds and tree planting, sweltering cities are innovating to stay cool as heatwaves intensify.

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29 May 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Heat illiteracy in Asia: Are cities prepared for climate-induced heatwaves?

24 May 2024

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Energy

Interview: China’s renewables ‘pave the way to rapidly reduce coal reliance’

22 May 2024

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Cities

In a boiling world, chief heat officers battle 'silent killer'

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Transport

In drought-hit Amazon, road paving fears grow as rivers run dry

20 May 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Nepal worries about its most dangerous glacial lake

15 May 2024

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Cities

How bioengineering saved a Himalayan road from floods

Indra Water_treatment

Water

After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia

3 May 2024

A steel manufacturing plants in Indonesia

Manufacturing

Carbon pricing is seen as a 'way out' for the Malaysian steel industry to cut emissions

26 April 2024

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Cities

Hopes and doubts as an Amazon city prepares to host COP30

23 April 2024

Alibaba Xixi campus

Green Buildings

Cooling down urban campuses: Can AI do it in a sustainable way?

22 April 2024

A single-use plastic soup spoon in use in HK

Waste

Hong Kong single-use plastic ban stirs debate over affordability of alternatives

18 April 2024

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Energy

Asean could save up to US$800 billion on decarbonisation costs through fully interconnected grid, study shows

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Energy

Is China ready to put solar panels out at sea?

16 April 2024

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Cities

Deforestation in Cambodia linked to stunting in children, anaemia in women: study

12 April 2024

Logging truck in Cambodia's Mondulkiri protected forest

Policy & Finance

Majority of Asian investors still lack deforestation policies: AIGCC

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Energy

China responsible for 95% of new coal power construction in 2023, report says

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