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The global market for e-bikes is surging. These bicycles, usually equipped with pedals and an electric motor assist, are popular with consumers and commuters and are becoming part of local business delivery systems. The trend could significantly reduce particulate pollution and smog, as well as cut carbon emissions in the transportation sector.

With demand for metals used in clean energy soaring, Filipino campaigners say mining laws must protect nature and Indigenous lands.

Why China’s clean energy projects, and efforts to green its heavy industry, matter for climate change.

We asked five environmental experts from academia and civil society what they made of the Year of the Rabbit, and what they were most proud of.

By Bernard Chiguvare

By You Xiaoying

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China’s decision to ramp up spending could accelerate a shift and help achieve long-term climate goals by bringing forward the peak in fossil-fuel use and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. By Stuart P.M. Mackintosh

Neglecting to address the mining industry’s human rights violations and environmental destruction could undermine the bloc’s efforts to ensure access to raw materials and to mitigate climate change. By Johanna Sydow

Who’s leading the race to develop electric vehicles in Southeast Asia? The answer is complicated. By Tham Siew Yean

The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world. By Mekala Krishnan and Olivia White

By Monika Merdekawati, Beni Suryadi and Jason Jimmy Amadeus Palenewan

By Sumant Sinha

By Daniel Litvin

By Arabesque

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The increasingly competitive dynamic duo of solar photovoltaic plus battery storage is taking energy markets by storm.

Automakers are touting overseas investments in electric vehicles, even as they lobby for lower fuel standards in the United States.

Climate change is not all doom and gloom, it's a business opportunity. Young aspiring entrepreneurs are growing profitable businesses that are helping to make the planet a more habitable place.

A massive solar thermal plant and world’s biggest lithium ion battery are making this down-under state a renewable energy powerhouse.

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EB Podcast: Climate Tech In Asia - Gogoro Founder Horace Luke

Exclusive In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.

Where is the smart money going in renewables?

Solar, wind, carbon capture, nature-based solutions—what are the technologies needed to combat climate change? Eco-Business asked clean energy entrepreneur Hendrik Tiesinga where the smart money is going.

Pro-miners argue that deep-sea mining is essential to enable the energy transition. On the Eco-Business podcast, Sian Owen of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition argues why nature's last frontier should be protected, not exploited.

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