#SEA clean energy transition Berita
The Malaysian oil and gas logistics firm has committed to decarbonise by 2050. Cattermole joins after four years with consultancy UL Solutions.
Vietnam’s recent opening up of its green power market won industry plaudits, but such reforms have been slow to materialise in the region. Eco-Business examines where firms may find procuring renewables easy, tricky, or nigh on impossible.
The new decree is seen as the latter of two policy moves needed to jumpstart the country’s clean energy market. New funding is already flowing, but concerns remain as to whether Vietnam’s power grid can handle more renewables.
Some question if the US$3 billion deal may yet be revived, given vague terms under the country's resource mobilisation plan announced last year that might allow a renegotiation. Observers say the termination is 'good news' for Vietnam's energy transition goals.
#SEA clean energy transition Opini
Bullish gas plans ignore the financial challenges of infrastructure development, renewable energy potential in the region and climate policy restrictions.
As the Asian Development Bank holds its premiere clean energy event this week, human rights activist Lidy Nacpil argues it is not acceptable merely to accelerate the transition.
Indonesia's 'island of the Gods' could serve as a living laboratory for a nation still in the early stages of renewable energy development.
Moving in the opposite direction from the rest of the world, Indonesia plans to lower its renewable energy ambitions by 2030. The new governing administration needs to make effort to ensure that even the reduced targets are met.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Indonesia signals it could abandon science-based taxonomy for coal power plants
#SEA clean energy transition Video
Gaurav Sant, founder of startup SeaChange, tells Eco-Business about a technology he hopes will give the world's oceans the capacity to absorb additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
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.
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.
#SEA clean energy transition Podcasts
Karbon & Iklim
‘Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk’: Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?
Entrepreneur Steve Melhuish tells the EB Podcast where the biggest opportunities to reduce emissions and make money are in Southeast Asia, and why finding the right economic incentives is critical for climate tech startups.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Businesses fear regulation on transition-washing’: Environmental lawyer Joyce Melcar Tan
The new head of Japan and Southeast Asia for ClientEarth tells the Eco-Business Podcast how the law can be used to hold polluters to account in the world's biggest emitting region. She also says it's time the legal profession faced scrutiny for greenwashing.
Karbon & Iklim
‘Nobody wants to be the bad guy’: Authors of optimistic climate novel say don’t write off oil industry solutions
Former petrochemicals industry executives Steve Willis and Genevieve Hilton have written a novel set 50 years into the future that has a happy ending. They tell the Eco-Business podcast that the book is a pitch to carbon-intensive industries to try workable climate solutions.
Energi
Scrutiny, Scope 3 and Asian realities: Petronas sustainability chief on climate action at COP28
The oil and gas sector needs to cut operational emissions faster, Charlotte Wolff-Bye tells the Eco-Business podcast. But slashing fuel output won’t do for the Asian supplier, and it welcomes respectful debate at the climate summit.
#SEA clean energy transition Rilis Pers
Energy Development Corporation
First-Gen EDC enables more PH companies to shift to green energy
Global Reporting Initiative
GRI-SM highlight business case for net zero in 2021 Asean regional e-summit
British Embassy Manila
Race to Zero: Philippine business leaders commit to accelerating climate action
#SEA clean energy transition Riset
