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Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda for how people and goods are moved around the region and across the globe.

15 Dec 2021

angus black cows on pasture

Since 2006, the estimated costs of achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions from the world’s energy, building, industrial, and transport systems have plummeted. In most sectors, a green transition will cost consumers little.

flettner rotor sails

The global shipping industry's annual greenhouse gas emissions total more than one billion tons, making it a critical front in the fight against climate change.

fishing boats in Bali

The impact of the Covid-19 crisis is global, and national recovery efforts must be globally focused to seize shared opportunities. Nowhere is this more evident than in the global domain that unites us – the ocean.

13 May 2020

Turtle, Asia Pacific, ocean

25 September 2019

Amazon electric truck

5 August 2019

A worker in a textile factory in China.

21 May 2019

spore shipping port

17 December 2018

Christmas trees

4 June 2018

17 April 2018

Container ship CMA CGM Marco Polo

5 April 2018

A container ship msc

18 December 2017

5 December 2017

Maersk ship sets sail with cargo

10 October 2017

dragging fishing nets

17 August 2017

A scene from Chasing Coral, one of the films to feature at the Singapore Eco Film Festival this year. Image: Netflix

3 July 2017

sea ice patterns

28 April 2017

Seal in the Galalapagos

5 April 2017

Logging landscape

20 July 2015

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