Eco-Business

As Thailand advances its EV ambitions, a looming surge in spent batteries highlights regulatory gaps and environmental risks – underscoring the need for robust recycling systems and regional cooperation.

Global efforts to regulate deep-sea mining face delays – as unresolved rules and unilateral moves heighten uncertainty over the industry’s future.

Residents of US territories in the Pacific fear deep-sea mining plans hatched in Washington could damage ecosystems and disrupt traditions.

Activists warn a new US-Indonesia trade deal could accelerate mining, deforestation and fossil fuel use, with weak, nonbinding environmental safeguards.

Oleh Joan Aurelia

Oleh Sean Mowbray

Oleh Tom Baxter

Oleh Jaka Hendra Baittri

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Workers in an electronic manufacturing factory in a Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) area in Laguna.

The World Bank has made a volte-face on industrial policy. Southeast Asian countries will need to consider the new policy, but calibrate it across vastly different national contexts. Oleh Marco Kamiya

A system built on renewables introduces new risks, as critical bottlenecks shift to refining, processing, and mineral-supply chains. Oleh Dianne Araral dan Eduardo Araral

The Trump Administration has broken with the tradition of pursuing its national interests in tandem with an emphasis on alliances and values. Southeast Asian countries will respond accordingly. Oleh Derek Grossman

As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds. Oleh Hossain Ahmed Taufiq dan Jonas Gamso

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Oleh Vaibhav Chowdhary dan Shubham Jain

Oleh Rick van der Ploeg dan Rabah Arezki

Oleh Daniel Litvin

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A Thai firm has built the country's first homes that runs on solar power for 24 hours a day, using a hybrid of solar PV panels and fuel cells.

Japanese firms venture into solar energy storage using discarded electric vehicle batteries, complementing the country's move to continue building more solar power plants.

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A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.

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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