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President Moon Jae-in, coal phase-out

Carbon & Climate

Climate cooperation knows no borders

The South Korean government has decided to pursue a more aggressive greenhouse gas emission target by 2030. It should now push for more collaboration with other Asian countries to fulfil its promises, writes Dr Frank Rijsberman of the Global Green Growth Institute.
gaps in global deal for nature

Policy & Finance

Closing the nature-finance gap

Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate. With a new global biodiversity plan now in the works, the world has an opportunity – and a duty – to start making up for lost time.
Plastic, circular economy, Asia

Waste

How can Asia build a circular economy in its post-Covid recovery?

The post-pandemic era could see circular business models take off in Asia. But strong government support and public awareness campaigns are needed to get companies on board.
The Singapore skyline. Singapore is positioning itself as a regional hub for green finance as Southeast Asia looks to infrastructure to revive ailing economies.

Policy & Finance

Singapore's green taxonomy should lead, not lag

By taking the initiative to create a common language for all financial institutions in ASEAN, Singapore is asserting its ambition to become the green finance hub of Asia.

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6 January 2021

Mongabay Founder Rhett A. Butler: 11 things to watch in 2021

Carbon & Climate

Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler: 11 things to watch in 2021

29 December 2020

RCEP: What's in it for Asia and the Pacific?

Policy & Finance

RCEP: What’s in it for Asia and the Pacific?

14 September 2020

installing solar panels AMS

Carbon & Climate

Asean's road to a green economic recovery

28 July 2020

electric micro bus in vietnam

Transport

With the right measures, Southeast Asia could see a post-pandemic EV revolution

11 December 2019

Journalists at a palm oil plantation question a corporate communications official.

CSR

Is the growing power of corporate communications hurting the sustainability press?

14 November 2019

faith climate movement

Carbon & Climate

Turning to faiths to save the planet

27 November 2018

pakistan doctor

Policy & Finance

Putting people at the heart of sustainable development

20 November 2018

National Day Parade fun pack 2018

Policy & Finance

Smaller fun packs for National Day? Singapore, it’s time for serious policy on plastic

5 October 2018

earth businesses circular economy

Carbon & Climate

Going full circle for growth and the planet

15 September 2018

Tacloban city in the Philippines after the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013

Cities

As more super storms affect Asia, we must typhoon-proof our cities

14 September 2018

cambodia dam

Energy

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

6 September 2018

A laborer hauls crushed rocks pulversied by a diesel-powered crusher in the shadow of a wind turbine.

Energy

Can we achieve universal electricity access without coal?

5 September 2018

Firefighters battle the blaze in Sweden in the summer of 2018

Carbon & Climate

The climate crisis is here - and time to act is running out

30 August 2018

Cars parked in Kuala Lumpur

Transport

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

27 August 2018

A man shows his maize crop in Laos

Food & Agriculture

What climate change means for fungi and food safety

23 August 2018

A man sells eggs in a tricycle in Bacolod City, the Philippines

Policy & Finance

4 ways to rethink social protection for future work in Asia

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