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Opinion / #SEA clean energy transition
As climate risks, energy transition and shifting market expectations reshape the business environment, Malaysia’s ability to compete will increasingly depend on how quickly its companies can adapt.
The World Bank has made a volte-face on industrial policy. Southeast Asian countries will need to consider the new policy, but calibrate it across vastly different national contexts.
Vietnam has limited room for manoeuvre on the energy front as supply tightens, but is proactively playing the hand it has been dealt.
Now is the time to double down on renewable energy and electrification.
All #SEA clean energy transition Opinion
27 February 2026
Policy & Finance
Rethinking coal phase-out in Asia and beyond
10 February 2026
26 January 2026
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As sustainability roles get harder in 2026, burnout risk is growing
24 November 2025
27 October 2025
Policy & Finance
While the West retreats, Asia powers ahead on sustainable finance
23 October 2025
14 July 2025
14 March 2025
27 January 2025
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance
25 November 2024
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Carbon & Climate
Southeast Asia needs serious money to get to net zero
8 October 2024
1 August 2024
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