Opinion / #clean energy
Carbon & Climate
How climate became China’s strategy for survival and security
China’s climate pivot has been shaped by its survival strategy, and this is now quickly redefining its resilience in the 21st century. Whether that power endures will depend on Asean – arguably China’s closest testbed for clean energy development. The recent Asean Summit and Apec meetings suggest China’s successes in climate and development will see a far larger reach beyond its shores.
Policy & Finance
While the West retreats, Asia powers ahead on sustainable finance
Even as political denial and regulatory paralysis grip parts of the West, a different message has been resounding across Asia – it is not retreating, but rising to the occasion.
Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. Asean can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it.
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power
If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans.
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Carbon & Climate
What a China-EU climate deal could do for the world
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Policy & Finance
Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?
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How green industrial policies are advancing in the Asia-Pacific
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Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash
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Policy & Finance
China’s lending to the Global South has been growing more commercial
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Manufacturing
The delicate art of natural resource diplomacy
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