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A report finds OCBC – alongside other Singapore lenders – among the top financiers of Indonesia's Harita’s coal-powered nickel smelters. The bank's CSO says it is "not pragmatic" to expect nickel production to be fully renewables-powered.
Residential areas next to a major nickel processing site on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island recorded exponential increases in diagnoses of respiratory infections between 2020 and 2023.
Policy & Finance
‘Brown colonialism’: India’s Nicobar port project imperils isolated Indigenous people
A US$9 billion infrastructure project aims to turn the sparsely populated home to remote Indigenous tribes into a Hong Kong-like industrial port city that could see the local population increase by 8,000 per cent. Activists say the project is tantamount to genocide.
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Analysis: China’s coal-to-chemicals growth risks climate goals
The sector is where energy security and emissions reduction priorities are most directly at odds.
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