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Carbon & Climate

Breaking Southeast Asia’s fire and haze cycle through certification and coordinated action

Stronger standards and fire prevention can help, but lasting progress requires action across industries, governments and communities.
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Carbon & Climate

Can adaptation accelerate climate action?

After a summer of apocalyptic headlines, a new survey finds that people across the political spectrum are deeply concerned about preparing for the effects of global warming. The adaptation imperative may end up being the kind of crisis that forces us to stop neglecting the green agenda and act at the necessary scale.
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Policy & Finance

For Southeast Asia, the AI race is about access, not supremacy

The region’s stake in AI is not simply which great power builds the most capable model. The key is to ensure that AI remains affordable, locally relevant, continuously available and politically accessible.
China’s electrification push is becoming a test of competitiveness for businesses

Carbon & Climate

China’s electrification lead shows Asia why clean power alone is not enough

China’s experience shows that renewable generation, grid investment and flexible business demand must develop together for electrification to deliver economic value.

All Asia Pacific Opinion

21 September 2026

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Policy & Finance

A workable social contract for the climate transition

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Carbon & Climate

Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?

10 September 2026

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Policy & Finance

Why Pacific Island states should seek collective security for the region

9 September 2026

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Water

A record‑shattering El Niño is almost here

1 September 2026

Jeepneys and vehicles navigate flooded streets in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Carbon & Climate

Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens

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Water

China’s super-dam is becoming an upstream water bomb

26 August 2026

recent geopolitical events have underlined the vulnerability of fossil fuel dependency, including on exporting nations, like Australia.

Carbon & Climate

Results over rhetoric: COP31 can accelerate the decarbonisation of industry and supply chains

14 August 2026

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Transport

Ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz region may be biosecurity risks

13 August 2026

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Cities

How climate crisis is redefining home and who counts as a refugee

12 August 2026

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Policy & Finance

Can the world build institutions fast enough to govern AI?

11 August 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Malaysia emits like the rich but speaks like the poor

4 August 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Europe is fiddling while Rome burns

Bidholi village in the city of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Policy & Finance

Tearing down the currency wall

29 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Will the US climate war with Canada become global?

28 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN

21 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Why carbon markets need data infrastructure, not just carbon credits: an Asia-Pacific perspective

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