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Opinion / #coal
Now is the time to double down on renewable energy and electrification.
Policy & Finance
Rethinking coal phase-out in Asia and beyond
To accelerate the retirement of coal, we need a scalable incentive framework that offers equitable participation and fair distribution of costs and benefits.
Carbon & Climate
A new opening for a fossil fuel phase out?
A decade ago, few governments could imagine a future without fossil fuels. But economic realities have changed and developing countries increasingly view the energy transition as a pathway to green growth.
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.
All #coal Opinion
10 October 2025
3 October 2025
1 October 2025
Manufacturing
Getting to greener steel
29 September 2025
Carbon & Climate
What a China-EU climate deal could do for the world
12 September 2025
Policy & Finance
How green industrial policies are advancing in the Asia-Pacific
31 July 2025
14 July 2025
1 July 2025
19 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them
16 June 2025
9 May 2025
27 March 2025
12 March 2025
Carbon & Climate
Transition offsets: no silver bullet for closing down coal
27 February 2025
Policy & Finance
Adaro’s coal spin-off highlights gaps in bank coal exit policies
14 February 2025
Policy & Finance
Trump’s second term is not the end of ESG, but a crossroads moment
10 February 2025
Manufacturing
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
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