Opinion / #pollution
Polisi & Kewangan
Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power
If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans.
The rapid uptake of alternative fuels in shipping is outpacing international liability regimes – leaving gaps in protection against spills and accidents.
Sisa Kumbahan
How India helped scuttle the global plastics treaty
Restricting primary or virgin plastic production would constrain economic growth and industrialisation, India argued at the recent plastic treaty talks. But its opposition to production caps may turn out to be more damaging than beneficial.
The UN should hold a vote in Geneva if countries try to water down plastic pollution deal.
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Sisa Kumbahan
Turning ocean preservation into an economic windfall
20 June 2025
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Karbon & Cuaca
Finishing what the world started at the UN Ocean Conference
16 June 2025
Bandar-bandar
Pulling Hanoi from the pollution precipice
13 May 2025
Sisa Kumbahan
The true cost of ocean plastic pollution
21 April 2025
14 April 2025
29 March 2025
Polisi & Kewangan
Trump’s Ukraine deal exposes a dirty truth about minerals
27 March 2025
12 March 2025
Karbon & Cuaca
Transition offsets: no silver bullet for closing down coal
17 January 2025
Bandar-bandar
Philippines’ car-centric society: Time to switch lanes
12 January 2025
Polisi & Kewangan
It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’
Sisa Kumbahan
How microplastics are destroying soil and human health
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