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The Indian government's efforts to promote polymer production while also imposing ineffective plastic bans have resulted in a pollution crisis that is spiralling out of control.

4 Oct 2024

After a year of war between Israel and Hamas, Gazans have endured daily traumas that will scar them for life.

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Climate change is making floods, heatwaves and storms more frequent and more intense; scientists warn emissions must be cut.

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How the region’s populations view decarbonisation as the energy transition occurs can inform stronger leadership and better policymaking at the elite level.

Projects involving liquified natural gas, ammonia co-firing with coal plants and carbon capture and storage are designed to extend fossil fuel production in the …

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Japan claims that its new coal plants can reduce emissions by burning ammonia and blending hydrogen with fossil gas in gas plants.

Billed as a platform to advance decarbonisation and economic growth, environmentalists say the Asia Zero Emission Community meeting in Jakarta is promoting Japan-made "false solutions", such as carbon capture technology and waste-to-energy, and poses high debt risk for Indonesia.

3 Oct 2024

But the island will have to keep both priorities and decarbonise its AI sector. At a press conference before its energy trade show now delayed by a typhoon, industry players touted battery storage as key to meeting Taiwan's renewables expansion needs.

Deforestation in Indonesia for pulpwood plantations

After sustained pressure from commodity producers and resistance from its own members, the EU Commission decided to postpone a law banning the import of commodities linked to forest loss for 12 months. Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil lobby groups welcomed the news.

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Southeast Asia is a particularly vulnerable region to climate threats. Digital solutions may be key to helping the region shore up resilience against economic losses and increasing climate-induced extreme weather events.

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Asia will have to work towards decoupling economic growth from emissions...There can be no compromise on the eventual goal: close to net-zero emissions around the middle of the century. That timeline is set not by politics or economics, but by nature.

An aerial view of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in Cambodia, image by Gabrielle See

It is risky to assume the many high-level standard-setting initiatives today can provide blanket improvements. Asian businesses all have a part to play to create a trusted carbon market that benefits climate, nature and stakeholders. By Jessica Cheam and Liang Lei

3 Oct 2024

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Consumers including millennials choose carefully, increasingly aware of deceptive environmental claims by businesses. By Ridho Bramulya Ikhsan

Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity. By Arne Nygaard

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Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

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No publisher in Asia has publicly rejected Big Oil ad dollars to date, and most provide a platform for fossil fuel brands, described by UN chief Antonio Guterres as "godfathers of climate chaos". Journalists and news consumers believe dirty energy advertising discredits climate-related content, but support for a tobacco-style ad ban is limited.

This special report looks at how a coal plant in Batangas, Philippines, could become the world’s first to be retired using the novel class of carbon credits. Are the methodologies sound, and how will just transition plans be implemented?

After just over a year since the MT Princess Empress disaster in Oriental Mindoro, environmental groups have renewed calls to ‘make polluters pay’ as the nation grapples with more frequent super typhoons and yet another massive oil spill, now closer to the Philippine capital.

On International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, Eco-Business looks at the unexpected rapid growth of a thriving mangrove forest in Iloilo City, Philippines, following the completion of a man-made floodway.

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Southeast Asia's clean energy transition

Climate Finance Asia, a leading sustainable finance advisory firm, announced today the launch of the Just Transition Working Group to explore practical ways to integrate Just Transition best practices into …

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Nature and biodiversity risk has been rising up the agenda for sustainability executives since a landmark agreement was reached at COP15 to protect 30 per cent of the Earth’s land …