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Food & Agriculture
Asean’s next generation of biofuels needs resilience beyond blending
Will scaling biofuels in Southeast Asia make the region more resilient to oil shocks, or does it introduce new vulnerabilities? Structural risks must be addressed as biofuels take a larger share of the transport fuel mix.
The rapid uptake of alternative fuels in shipping is outpacing international liability regimes – leaving gaps in protection against spills and accidents.
Some members of the United Nations International Maritime Organisation argue that biofuels should be central to the effort to decarbonise the shipping industry but there is nothing sustainable about it.
Transport
Can the shipping industry decarbonise?
As the UN’s shipping regulator explores ways to decarbonise global shipping, biofuels aren’t the green alternatives they are portrayed to be.
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10 February 2025
Manufacturing
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
26 September 2024
15 February 2024
15 May 2023
5 April 2022
Policy & Finance
Financing gender-energy access programmes in Asean
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22 November 2018
Carbon & Climate
The bleak fate of the Amazon
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8 July 2018
Food & Agriculture
Winners and losers from the EU's proposed ban on palm oil
26 April 2018
Food & Agriculture
Can sustainable bioeconomy be a driver of green growth?
5 January 2018
Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel subsidies – a harmful government expenditure
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Carbon & Climate
Book Review: Little Climate
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Food & Agriculture
Save our soils
4 February 2015
Food & Agriculture
Biofuels are not a green alternative to fossil fuels
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