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Polisi & Kewangan

Trade wars destroy the planet

Given that China is the world’s largest emitter and has a high carbon intensity, some assume that its trade war with the United States, which has shifted production to third countries, would have environmental benefits. In fact, the conflict has increased carbon dioxide emissions in developing and advanced economies alike.
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Pengangkutan

The need for gender-inclusive public transport policies

Women make up more than half of public transport users in Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur, but urban transport systems must be designed to ensure their time, safety and well-being are accounted for.
West Sumatra flood damage

Karbon & Cuaca

Sumatra’s flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy

Forest loss and soil degredation resulted in Sumatra's natural ecosystem losing the ability to act as a natural sponge during Cyclone Senyar.
Tengah, the site of the most secondary forest loss in Singapore's recent history.

Bandar-bandar

Can Singapore’s secondary forests play a role in its climate adaptation plan?

Singapore is facing diminishing forest cover from competing lands uses – but vulnerable secondary forests could play a key role in helping the city-state adapt to intensifying heat stress and flooding.

All Asia Tenggara Opinion

1 December 2025

Fossil fuel funeral

Karbon & Cuaca

A new opening for a fossil fuel phase out?

24 November 2025

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Tenaga

Time for Vietnam to resolve its renewable energy legal quagmire

15 November 2025

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Polisi & Kewangan

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

12 November 2025

A data centre in the United States

Polisi & Kewangan

Responsible investment's AI trilemma – emissions, job losses and inequality

11 November 2025

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Bandar-bandar

What really kills people in tropical cyclones

3 November 2025

China Central Solar Tower Shouhang

Karbon & Cuaca

How climate became China’s strategy for survival and security

29 October 2025

Supporters of Students for a Fossil Free Future at the Singapore Climate Rally, which called for accelerated climate action in Singapore.

Karbon & Cuaca

We tried to move a mountain: Reflections on youth activism and the fossil fuel divestment movement in Singapore

23 October 2025

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Tenaga

Energy trade in Southeast Asia: The need to address resource nationalism

21 October 2025

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Polisi & Kewangan

Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power

10 October 2025

Coal plants in Indonesia near mountains

Tenaga

Why Asean's coal promises keep colliding with reality

29 September 2025

Young_Farmer_Dak_Lak_Vietnam

Makanan & Pertanian

Reimagining agriculture for young people

12 September 2025

Asean solar SIEW

Polisi & Kewangan

How green industrial policies are advancing in the Asia-Pacific

9 September 2025

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Tenaga

Beyond green data centres: Leaner, smarter AI for Southeast Asia’s sustainable digital future

8 September 2025

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Polisi & Kewangan

What chaos at the US CDC could mean for the rest of the world

19 August 2025

Weixin/WeChat  app

CSR

Building inclusive economies: Lessons from East Asia’s social innovation ecosystems

15 August 2025

Siti Khadijah Market in Malaysia

Makanan & Pertanian

A food security imperative for the Johor-Singapore SEZ blueprint

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