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China’s solar exports hit a record high in March as rising fossil fuel prices and looming tax changes accelerated demand across Asia and Africa.

Indonesia’s environment ministry has reapproved a controversial zinc and lead mine in North Sumatra, less than a year after the Supreme Court forced it to revoke the project’s earlier environmental approval over disaster-risk concerns.

Workers installing power transmission line in Jakarta, Indonesia

PLN’s transmission business puts Indonesia’s energy transition needs at risk unless reformation occurs to change the company’s reliance on national budgets.

Two provinces accounted for more than national net decline, while grid bottlenecks and curtailment threatened to waste clean power gains.

Oleh Taejun Kang

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Oleh Siva Selan

Oleh Taejun Kang

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If development programmes are serious about long-term change, they have to create real pathways towards paid, respected roles within the communities women already belong to. Oleh Danutcha Catriona Singh

ESG is meant to align environmental, social and governance priorities. But companies are increasingly being forced to choose between competing issues as ESG starts to break apart. How should companies rethink their approach? Oleh Kaushik Sridhar

Despite calls for mediation, the grouping has remained fragmented, highlighting its role as a ‘club’ like the G7 rather than a forum for collective action.. Oleh Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama

The Iran war has reminded everyone, but especially Africans, of the structural instability of fossil-fuel prices. For African trustees, directors, asset managers, and other fiduciaries, the question is not whether capital should reposition, but whether institutions will act before events compel them to do so. Oleh Nicole Martens

Oleh Bruno Bouygues dan Bertrand Badré

Oleh Emmanuel Guérin

Oleh Rob McDonald, Tirthankar Chakraborty dan Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez

Oleh Ralph Regenvanu

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Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup presenting how much plastic his organisation has captured.

The 31-year-old engineer responds to criticism that his non-profit focuses downstream of the bigger problem with a "quick fix" solution, and claims he can clean the ocean in a decade by intercepting river trash.

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In the inaugural episode of Eco-Business's new Resilience podcast series, industry leaders say the palm oil sector's ability to weather disruption will depend not on certification alone, but on rethinking the relationships that underpin the entire supply chain.

Unpacking Asia's plastic pollution problem

Eksklusif Tune in to this webinar where our guest speakers discuss the region's plastic crisis, the state of play on the Global Plastics Treaty and circular economy strategies for businesses.

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

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Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.

Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

As Southeast Asia eyes regional power trading to accelerate decarbonisation, veteran solar entrepreneur Frank Phuan unpacks the political, economic and logistical hurdles of moving clean energy across borders.

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