The race to electrify transport is causing extensive deforestation in Indonesia, a Mighty Earth report finds. Will the destructive practices continue under incoming president Prabowo Subianto, who has pledged to ramp up nickel trade?
Economist Michael Greenstone, who first put a price on emissions for the US government, says that unless the price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy narrows, poor countries will face difficult trade-offs amid climate breakdown.
Ageing equipment, rising petroleum demand and minimal fines are driving oil spills in the Gulf of Thailand, as legislators and fishers call for change.