Carbon & Climate News
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Grab is hatching a carbon-cutting planThe race to net zero-emissions ride-hailing in Southeast Asia is on. Gojek and now Grab are embarking on decarbonisation drives — just as Singapore announces a new policy to promote lower-carbon travel. -
Climate change causing faster snow melt in the HimalayasNew study shows decrease in average snow drought duration; this increases the risk of floods.
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Entrée for lab-grown meatSingapore has approved lab-grown meat for human consumption, but the big hurdle is convincing consumers to embrace it. -
Seven Clean Seas staffs up as plastic offsetting firm adds auditing capabilityThe 3 year-old startup has hired an auditor to enable corporates to track and decrease their plastic waste footprint, and two sales executives to develop new projects.
Carbon & Climate Opinion
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Greening ODA: 50% of development aid should support environment and climate action– Poor people have many competing priorities, but the claim that 'hungry people don't care about the environment' should not be used to ignore the environment and climate action in international development cooperation. -
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate changeUnited States
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change
– Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees. -
Getting the social cost of carbon right– US President Joe Biden's administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of action needed to meet the commitments that it has made to Americans and the rest of the world. The future of the planet depends on it.
Carbon & Climate Videos
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Energy efficiency: Southeast Asia's decarbonisation quick fix?– Improving energy efficiency could meet a quarter of Southeast Asia’s emissions reduction targets. Here is how efficiency could drive Southeast Asia's energy transition.
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Hot air? Vietnam's wind energy story– Vietnam's wind market is thriving, but more work lies ahead if the country wants to power its booming economy without imperilling its people and the planet.
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Which is Southeast Asia's most advanced clean energy nation?– Southeast Asian nations are racing to bring clean, affordable power to their people, but one country is outrunning them all. How can states make their renewable energy transition a success?
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From flying taxis to e-jeepneys: transport in Southeast Asia is going electric– In gridlocked, smoggy Southeast Asian cities, change is afoot to electrify transport and clear some of the world's most polluted skies. This video documents the pockets of hope for e-mobility around the most climate-vulnerable region.
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