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Energy

Indonesia’s captive coal: Could it lead the transition away?

With the country dominating nickel exports, its moves towards green industry could make the greatest impacts.
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Policy & Finance

Climate adaptation and resilience need its own investment language: MAS

Investors need a clearer way to measure and value resilience as Asia faces rising climate risks, according to Singapore's financial regulator, with the absence of a common metric making adaptation harder to finance at scale.
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Energy

China can catalyse local finance for home solar in the Global South

Kenya's small-scale solar market shows how local capital can be just as important as big China-funded renewables projects.
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Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s captive coal: Financing industrial decarbonisation

Exploring why energy transition capital is currently being blocked from reaching the country’s captive power plants – and what to do about it.

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15 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

MDBs hit record $163bn in climate finance, but advocates question support for poorest countries

6 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

World Bank’s China exit could lead to ‘shrinking balance sheet’, says green finance specialist

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Energy

Cambodia’s grid has reached people who can’t connect to it

10 June 2026

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Cities

To green China’s overseas infrastructure, start with what it buys

25 May 2026

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Policy & Finance

Transition finance needs ‘realism’, not reliance on private capital alone, says Prudential chair

21 May 2026

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Policy & Finance

Scalable investment platforms, not capital, are holding back climate adaptation finance in Asia

17 April 2026

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Water

Water stress increases downside risk to credit ratings of lower-income countries: AIIB

11 April 2026

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Policy & Finance

Q&A: ‘If you are in the business of peace, you must talk to those who are at war’

5 March 2026

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Policy & Finance

What does the US pursuit of critical minerals mean for the Global South?

19 January 2026

Sarvesh Suri, IFC's senior vice president, Asia Pacific

Policy & Finance

World Bank's IFC appoints Asia Pacific regional vice president

30 September 2025

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Energy

ADB set to finalise draft energy policy amid criticism of 'rushed process'

19 September 2025

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Cities

Philippines flood corruption scandal stalls funding for bridge project, giving endangered dolphins a reprieve

16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Q&A: What next for China’s green finance?

5 September 2025

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Water

As LNG development accelerates, Philippine coastal communities fight for their future

3 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Philippines will champion regional framework to scale blended finance as Asean chair: central bank sustainability head

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Energy

Chinese energy projects take off in Indonesia as western financing falters

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