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‘Milestone’ improvement in Southeast Asia’s 2025 air quality, but still short of WHO limit
Progress on reducing PM2.5 air pollution was led by Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia, while the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam recorded declining air quality, a new report showed.
Emergency measures include 30 per cent fee cut for EVs, fleet targets for transport firms and remote work for civil servants.
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Asean needs to improve acceptance of ‘amber’ transition activities: finance leaders
The region's sustainable finance taxonomy must focus on building consensus around firms moving away from fossil fuels for the classification system to be successful in driving regional decarbonisation.
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Southeast Asia can tap bond markets, improve taxonomies to fill adaptation finance gap: report
Countries in the region should also prepare to rely less on developed countries for adaptation finance, recommended the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
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