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17 December 2020

Wind turbines in Xinjiang, China

Carbon & Climate

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

11 December 2020

RCBC Plaza

Policy & Finance

Philippine bank RCBC to stop funding coal

A landfill in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Waste

Sri Lanka returns first batch of imported waste from the UK

9 December 2020

power plant and wind

Carbon & Climate

Emissions cuts in line with Paris Agreement would see benefits ‘within two decades’

8 December 2020

The Nam Theun 1 hydropower project laos

Policy & Finance

Advisors propose new system to regulate China’s overseas investments

7 December 2020

fabella hospital covid

Policy & Finance

US-dominated Covid funding: What does this mean for developing Asia?

4 December 2020

Jean Marc Arbogast IFC

Policy & Finance

Jean Marc Arbogast to lead IFC in the Philippines

27 November 2020

A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN

Policy & Finance

Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca: Which Covid-19 vaccine could reach developing countries first?

23 November 2020

Land cleared to make way for palm oil in Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

New rule clears Indonesia’s protected forests for agribusiness

20 November 2020

Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Energy

AIIB’s new no-coal pledge puts spotlight on China’s overseas energy investment

19 November 2020

Chinese-built locomotives in Kazakhstan

Policy & Finance

Central Asian NGOs raise concerns about BRI projects

13 November 2020

Workers fertilising on an oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia

Corporate Responsibility

Palm oil giant Korindo accused anew of illegally burning Papuan rainforest

5 November 2020

Michael Bloomberg speaks during a panel at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25)

Carbon & Climate

US exit from Paris deal a blow—but drive for climate action rolls on

29 October 2020

Shark fins being sold in a fish market

Food & Agriculture

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore: Study

21 October 2020

thermal coal plant in Hunan

Policy & Finance

China’s climate lead offers the planet new hope

20 October 2020

plastic imports fr uk to malaysia

Waste

Uneven efforts by world’s top waste exporters to reduce and recover waste, new study shows

19 October 2020

metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

Wind power in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Policy & Finance

Researchers unveil roadmap for a carbon neutral China by 2060

12 October 2020

Peat burns in the Tumbang Nusa research forest outside Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Will a new Indonesian law make it harder to punish firms for haze-causing fire?

7 October 2020

Farmer working on a rice field in Bali, Indonesia.

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s food estate programme to expand new plantations in forest frontiers

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