Bokor National Park is a refuge for many threatened plants and animals, but conservationists warn its habitat is under threat from the development of luxury residential estates that are planned to occupy 19,000 hectares inside the park.
With the Covid-19 pandemic driving up government debt across many nations, there are growing calls for 'debt swaps' to be used to help developing nations achieve a 'green recovery'.
Co-organized by China Daily, University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai International Studies University and Asia News Network, researchers and journalists discussed the way forward on climate action for the Asian region.
Tim Ha –
Renewables could spur the post-pandemic recovery in Asia. But as this year’s climate change conference approaches, the region's energy planners have a lot of catching up to do.
Yasuyuki Sawada –
The signing on 15 November 2020 of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement concluded 8 years of negotiations among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and New Zealand.
Monika Merdekawati –
Faced with a grim economic outlook, how can Asean member states include the clean energy transition in their Covid-19 recovery plan?
State capture has turned the Cambodian government into an agent of private industrial interests, rather than a defender of citizens' interests. The country urgently needs a proper civil registration system and a modern land registry.
Four in five of the world’s workforce is on lockdown due to Covid-19, with no end in sight. The post-pandemic world order needs one familiar function to tie social sustainability together – human resources.
Tim Ha –
Southeast Asian nations are racing to bring clean, affordable power to their people, but one country is outrunning them all. How can states make their renewable energy transition a success?
Alaine Johnson –
An abandoned garment factory in Phnom Penh is reclaimed by artists in a haunting exhibition that depicts the impact of the fashion industry on the environment.
Medilyn Manibo –
The Asian Institute of Technology demonstrates how the heat from solar power can help disinfect septic tanks at the recently held Reinvent the Toilet exhibition in New Delhi, India.
With the tagline "Taking the Pulse of the Planet", State of the World's Birds is a major global assessment that uses bird species to measure the health of our ecosystems as …
The Asean countries are at very different stages of economic growth. Members include a fully developed city state with nearly full national electricity coverage as well as several agrarian economies …