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Opinion / Asia Pacific

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Policy & Finance

The AI we need for sustainable infrastructure

Even as governments pour trillions of dollars into roads, power grids, data centers, water systems, and housing, the construction industry has yet to leverage the efficiency gains that AI and digitalisation have to offer. Given how important the sector will be for sustainable development, this must change.
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Cities

Eliminating extreme poverty: Kerala’s lessons for Asean countries

Kerala’s experience in fighting poverty holds some important lessons for developing Asean countries. The Indian state removed severe destitution by addressing nutritional, health and educational needs.
Hòa Bình Dam in Vietnam

Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability reporting tools must bridge impacts of local businesses and Earth’s limits

Sustainability standards and ratings do not generate enough information for businesses to understand their environmental impacts across scales and create mitigation plans to avoid further transgression of planetary boundaries.
A two speed world is emerging in ESG

Corporate Responsibility

The ESG skills gap nobody’s talking about

Many of the people expected to deliver on increasing corporate sustainability requirements don’t even work in ESG – and there is a shortage of people who can bridge the gap between purpose and performance.

All Asia Pacific Opinion

12 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

The ocean has finally entered the global climate debate

9 January 2026

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Carbon & Climate

China’s five green economy challenges in 2026

7 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Changing diets amid a changing climate

6 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

Is Malaysia heading towards an uninsurability crisis?

5 January 2026

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Cities

Climate adaptation more than covers its cost

16 December 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after COP30

15 December 2025

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Transport

The need for gender-inclusive public transport policies

8 December 2025

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Manufacturing

The critical minerals race is putting the planet at risk

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Carbon & Climate

Sumatra’s flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy

1 December 2025

Tengah, the site of the most secondary forest loss in Singapore's recent history.

Cities

Can Singapore’s secondary forests play a role in its climate adaptation plan?

Indigenous Peoples at COP30 closing plenary

Carbon & Climate

COP30: five reasons the UN climate conference failed to deliver on its ‘people’s summit’ promise

24 November 2025

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Energy

Time for Vietnam to resolve its renewable energy legal quagmire

20 November 2025

Australia outback and road into the unknown

Carbon & Climate

Australia’s withdrawal from COP31: Strategic recalibration or retreat from climate leadership?

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Policy & Finance

Climate and development finance must be integrated

11 November 2025

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Cities

What really kills people in tropical cyclones

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Carbon & Climate

Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: What to expect at COP30 climate talks

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