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Report recommends no new coal plants for India as prospects for batteries improve

An expert committee in India is recommending that the country stop building new coal-fired power plants, after concluding that renewables can meet all future need for electricity. “The committee, h...

31 Jan 2022

Report recommends no new coal plants for India as prospects for batteries improve

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International Finance Corporation appoints Ruth Horowitz as Asia chief

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, has promoted Ruth Horowitz as its new regional vice president for Asia and the Pacific. The veteran investment pro...

10 Aug 2022

International Finance Corporation appoints Ruth Horowitz as Asia chief

News / Energy

Mining firms blow cold on India's plan to dig deep for coal

India's plan to auction abandoned coal mines to private firms to meet rising energy demand has brought little cheer to the industry as running the mines poses financial, technological and safety risks...

27 Jul 2022

Mining firms blow cold on India's plan to dig deep for coal

News / Energy

Will the fossil energy crisis make renewables more popular?

...renewables need to grow twice as fast.” While renewables uptake has been growing fast, increasing 15 per cent year-on-year in 2020, policymakers and grid operators may still be wary of intermittency i...

27 Jan 2022

Will the fossil energy crisis make renewables more popular?

News / Transport

GoTo: financial strife will not affect our sustainability commitments

GoTo, the Indonesian tech giant that owns ride-hailing app Gojek and e-commerce firm Tokopedia, has said the firm's sustainability ambitions have not been affected by the company's financial difficult...

5 Jan 2023

GoTo: financial strife will not affect our sustainability commitments

News / Corporate Responsibility

ERM splits Asia-Pacific leadership

Sustainability consultancy ERM has restructured, splitting the Asia-Pacific region into two sub-regions – Asia, and New Zealand and Australia. Nat Vanitchyangkul has been appointed Asia CEO, to be bas...

10 Oct 2022

ERM splits Asia-Pacific leadership

Supporters of Students for a Fossil Free Future gather at a rally to call for accelerated climate action in Singapore

News / Energy

Singapore universities making ‘little to no progress’ phasing out fossil fuels influence: activists

...renewables and other sustainability sectors. S4F's scorecard on how well Singapore's universities are faring on professional development in response to their requests for change. 0 = no change. 1 rep...

24 Oct 2023

Singapore universities making ‘little to no progress’ phasing out fossil fuels influence: activists

News / Energy

Coal-powered industrial parks test Indonesia’s climate pledges — and China’s too

...renewables currently make up just under 12 per cent of the energy mix. “Any new coal power will hinder the achievement of that target,” says Deon Arinaldo, a programme manager with the Institute for E...

31 Mar 2022

Coal-powered industrial parks test Indonesia’s climate pledges — and China’s too

News / Policy & Finance

Green jobs take off in China

Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off. In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, accordin...

3 Jul 2023

Green jobs take off in China

News / Manufacturing

Solar power helps Indian women make light work of cotton spinning

...renewables capacity to 500 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, up from about 115 GW now, Uttar Pradesh is looking to solar energy to power businesses, homes and communities, with a growing focus on those that are...

24 Aug 2022

Solar power helps Indian women make light work of cotton spinning

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why it’s more important than ever to invest in the voluntary carbon market

As the planet continues to heat up with deadly effects, companies in Asia are left with two options: do their part or bear the cost. With Asia responsible for about half of all greenhouse gas emission...

11 Aug 2023

Why it’s more important than ever to invest in the voluntary carbon market

News / Energy

Indian coal mine workers fear job, social security loss amid shift to renewables

Bermo, a small town in the Bokaro district, is part of the East Bokaro Coalfield in Jharkhand. As one leaves the Ranchi-Giridih highway to reach these coal mines, hundreds of people are seen involved ...

29 May 2022

Indian coal mine workers fear job, social security loss amid shift to renewables

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does China want from COP28?

A review of China’s trajectory of climate policies over the past three years is essential to understanding China’s position at COP28. First, the dual carbon pledge made by President Xi Jinping in Sept...

30 Nov 2023

What does China want from COP28?

News / Lifestyle

Covid – not climate change – has nudged Australians towards greener lifestyles: study

The threat of climate change has had very little impact on persuading Australians to lead more environmentally conscious lives, but the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted the broad adoption of greener con...

19 Aug 2022

Covid – not climate change – has nudged Australians towards greener lifestyles: study

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

With new evidence that catastrophic climate-change "tipping points" are nearing - from surging sea levels as polar ice melts to spiking temperatures as methane escapes thawing permafrost - scientists ...

19 Sep 2022

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

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‘Boiling frogs for the longest time’: Why Southeast Asia is finally warming to heat research

International scientific studies have increasingly confirmed that heat is not just bad for the planet, but also for the human body. Climate health-related research, however, has mostly been carried o...

10 Jan 2024

‘Boiling frogs for the longest time’: Why Southeast Asia is finally warming to heat research

News / Carbon & Climate

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

Heatwaves are breaking records around the world, from India and Thailand to the normally mild US Pacific Northwest, with scientists predicting that global average temperatures will likely surge to re...

19 May 2023

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

Workers walk at a solar power station in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, China

News / Energy

The first year of China’s carbon neutrality pledge, in numbers

...renewables sector during 2021. A range of electricity market reforms were announced, and there was a call at a Party conference to build “a new type of power system with renewables at the centre”, fur...

11 Mar 2022

The first year of China’s carbon neutrality pledge, in numbers

Press Releases / LYS Energy

LYS Energy inaugurates two solar PV systems at Element Solutions' business centre in Singapore

On May 10, 2022, LYS Energy inaugurated two rooftop solar PV systems at Element Solutions Inc’s business centres in Tuas, Singapore. As a global speciality chemicals company, maintaining enviro...

13 May 2022

LYS Energy inaugurates two solar PV systems at Element Solutions' business centre in Singapore

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Globalisation is greener

The debate about how to achieve climate goals – most notably, the transition to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases – has fueled speculation that the world will deglobalise. Some argue that, sinc...

18 May 2023

Globalisation is greener

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