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Energy

Subsea power cables as catalysts for the energy transition in Southeast Asia

While overland cables are just as important, the geographic flexibility offered by subsea cables will have a catalytic impact on regional energy transition by increasing the numbers of energy buyers and sellers.
The sustainability leadership burnout of 2026 looks very different from that of 2024. What has changed is not just magnitude, but the nature of the pressures: endless reporting, fractured authority, reputational minefields, and moral burden.

Corporate Responsibility

As sustainability roles get harder in 2026, burnout risk is growing

Burnout among sustainability professionals isn’t just persisting – it’s deepening, shaped by new pressures.
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Food & Agriculture

Changing diets amid a changing climate

Much attention has been paid to switching from meat-based diets to plant-based ones. Less attention has been paid to the effects of climate change on the quality and quantity of plant foods.
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Policy & Finance

Responsible investment’s AI trilemma – emissions, job losses and inequality

Investors who fail to assess and mitigate the potential harms of adopting Artificial Intelligence cannot credibly call themselves "responsible".

All Singapore 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

3 October 2025

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Cities

Rights on demand: Asia’s gig economy gets a legal upgrade

17 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, philanthropy can unlock climate finance

9 September 2025

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Energy

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

15 August 2025

Siti Khadijah Market in Malaysia

Food & Agriculture

A food security imperative for the Johor-Singapore SEZ blueprint

30 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

A new trade agenda for climate-resilient development

17 June 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Article 6: Climate tool or trap?

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Cities

Hot in the city. But it doesn't have to be – we have answers

26 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

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

15 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Asia rising: why the future of climate leadership belongs here

14 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

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

8 April 2025

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Transport

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

27 February 2025

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Carbon & Climate

DeepSeek’s AI disruption: Implications for global climate policy

27 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance

13 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Making carbon trading work: Exploring collaboration between Japan and Asean countries

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