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Carbon & Climate

Even ‘weak’ cyclones are being turned into deadly rainmakers by fast-warming oceans

Despite accurate forecasts, weak cyclones in South Asia triggered deadly floods – highlighting how warmer oceans are amplifying rainfall and reshaping cyclone risks in a warming climate.
West Sumatra flood damage

Carbon & Climate

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

Forest loss and soil degredation resulted in Sumatra's natural ecosystem losing the ability to act as a natural sponge during Cyclone Senyar.
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Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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Carbon & Climate

From Rio to Belém: The long unravelling of climate consensus

Three decades after the optimism of the 1992 Earth Summit, the climate regime faces a tough test. The retreat of multilateralism and the rules-based international order has left COP30 struggling to hold together the fading promise of global action.

All Indonesia Opinion

23 October 2025

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Energy

Energy trade in Southeast Asia: The need to address resource nationalism

21 October 2025

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power

10 October 2025

Coal plants in Indonesia near mountains

Energy

Why Asean's coal promises keep colliding with reality

18 September 2025

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Cities

Nepal protests reflect a wider pattern of Gen Z activism across Asia

16 September 2025

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Cities

Hashtags hurt, hashtags heal too

9 September 2025

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Energy

Beyond green data centres: Leaner, smarter AI for Southeast Asia’s sustainable digital future

5 August 2025

Indonesians gather to see the Garuda palace at Nusantara, East Kalimantan

Cities

Does Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, fit into the president’s long-term vision?

25 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Asian universities rise in global sustainability leadership rankings

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Cities

Bulldozing Bali's Bingin Beach misses the real threat of overdevelopment

18 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Tariff shockwaves: Indonesia’s export strategy under fire

29 May 2025

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Energy

A call for ecological justice: Why Indonesia’s pesantrens ‘reject’ renewable energy

26 May 2025

A date centre in Singapore

Carbon & Climate

An intelligent trade-off: AI as a double-edged sword in Southeast Asia’s climate battle

14 May 2025

COP30 Brazil

Carbon & Climate

From Kuala Lumpur to Belém: can Asean lead its people and the planet?

13 May 2025

Nickel smelter in Russia

Energy

US hits Indonesia with tariffs – will nickel be its Trump card?

8 April 2025

A fleet of electric cars in China

Transport

Autonomous driving and Southeast Asia: Will it hit the road?

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Food & Agriculture

Migrant agriculture workers: potential resource for Southeast Asia’s food-resilient future

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