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Connecting remains too expensive for many rural poor, while solar stopgap measures prove insufficient for their needs.
China’s Asia Pacific neighbours mirror the trend, with record solar and wind gains but coal still dominating power and emissions in Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia rising faster than the global average, found a Statistical Review of World Energy report.
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Bangladesh boosts EV adoption in bid to cut pollution, emissions
Besides adaptation, the South Asian country is now embarking on mitigation to reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Singapore-based 100x100 has launched a US$100 million fund to build and scale 50 climate-focused startups across Southeast Asia and India.
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