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Asian Clean Fuels Association (ACFA)
Cleaner air now starts with fuel
Air quality across Asian cities is improving – but not at the pace required, and not consistently across the region.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Guiding light: How solar power is providing a lifeline to blackout-prone Asian villages
Like many in the central Philippines village of Tabon, Analyn Fedelis makes a living fishing at night. That’s …
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN-backed initiative puts Bangkok youth at the center of city’s electric mobility shift
Bangkok youth brought their ideas on inclusive electric mobility to the United Nations this week, as 17 student …
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
Bankable pathways to scale Asean power integration
Asean’s decarbonisation challenge is both urgent and structural. Electricity demand is set to more than double by 2050, …
All #electrification Press Releases
19 January 2026
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Filling the first and last-mile gap: Asean's electric bus push
15 November 2025
27 October 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Students invited to shape Bangkok’s transport future
5 June 2025
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
Power without borders: Charting Asean's path to an interconnected energy future
8 April 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Why 2025 could be the year of the electric vehicle in developing countries
12 November 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Sustainable transport needed to overcome ‘last mile’ in development in Asia and the Pacific
25 September 2024
4 September 2024
8 May 2024
27 March 2024
Volvo Construction Equipment Asia
Why electric construction machines should play a key role in bringing Singapore’s Green Plan to life
19 January 2024
5 November 2023
27 October 2023
23 September 2023
5 September 2023
4 July 2023
NEU Battery Materials
NEU Battery Materials concludes oversubscribed US$3.7M seed funding round
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