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Palm plantations the usual suspects as wildfire engulfs Sumatra peatlands

Fires in areas of carbon-intense peatland forest on the island of Sumatra appear to have been set in and around oil palm plantation concessions and could signal the start of another season of forest-r...

8 Jun 2022

Palm plantations the usual suspects as wildfire engulfs Sumatra peatlands

News / Energy

Wind farms signal decline of agriculture in southern India

Driving southward from Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli city, one crosses many towns and villages with all the typical scenes one would expect – busy buses and trains, students in a rush, and construction lab...

18 Apr 2022

Wind farms signal decline of agriculture in southern India

Research / DNV

Floating offshore wind: the next five years

By 2050, we predict that floating offshore wind will generate 264 GW or 15 per cent of all offshore wind energy. To put this into context this is the equivalent to a development of more than 3,000 tim...

24 Mar 2022

Floating offshore wind: the next five years

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Revenue recycling: How governments can address carbon pricing trade-offs

Is carbon pricing a silver-bullet solution for solving the climate crisis? I call for a nuanced discussion around the unintended equity issues that carbon taxes will cause and examine “revenue recycli...

23 Nov 2022

Revenue recycling: How governments can address carbon pricing trade-offs

News / Water

‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining

Countries and companies could soon begin extracting rare metals used in a range of consumer electronics from the seabed floor on an industrial scale – something that has not previously been allowed un...

3 Aug 2023

‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining

News / Carbon & Climate

Cloud infrastructure could be key to meeting climate goals

As the Covid-19 pandemic spurs the acceleration of digitisation and demand for data, governments and companies across Asia Pacific are actively looking for ways to fast track both their digital transf...

15 Oct 2021

Cloud infrastructure could be key to meeting climate goals

News / Energy

Explainer: the many shades of hydrogen

It’s the lightest gas in the world, and it has been bestowed with heavy significance due to climate change. Hydrogen burns when sparked, making it a promising fuel for power plants. While existing fue...

3 Feb 2022

Explainer: the many shades of hydrogen

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Opinion / Energy

Putin's war and world energy

...renewables also advances energy security, the extensive public spending required for investment in projects may need to be postponed. With rising energy prices already driving up retail bills, governm...

10 Mar 2022

Putin's war and world energy

Indigenous peoples workers in Rio Tuba Mining Corp

News / Corporate Responsibility

The mining industry gets 'too much bad press': Philippine mining lawyer Patricia Bunye

Patricia Bunye, a leading lawyer in the Philippine mining industry, believes that mining in the Philippines is “vilified” in the media because the industry has not been good at communications. The ex...

14 Mar 2023

The mining industry gets 'too much bad press': Philippine mining lawyer Patricia Bunye

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News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore a major contributor to air and water pollution via marine fuel sales: study

...renewables, said the ICCT study. “There is a huge opportunity if Singapore transitions to green fuels together with or even faster than the rest of the world,” Mao said. Since 2021, the MPA has ramped...

8 Aug 2022

Singapore a major contributor to air and water pollution via marine fuel sales: study

COP27 article 6 implementation partnership

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore's ambition in novel bilateral carbon markets faces competitor, near-term supply hurdles

...renewables potential and currently generating most of its power using fossil gas, wants to peak emissions this decade and reach net-zero by 2050. From next year, Singapore’s government is letting big ...

16 Oct 2023

Singapore's ambition in novel bilateral carbon markets faces competitor, near-term supply hurdles

News / Carbon & Climate

Trapping CO2 from the air is a costly bet to beat climate change — but money is flowing in anyway

...renewables, as well as protecting or restoring forests. More than 4 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions could be avoided in the next eight years through building solar panels and wind farms, even w...

18 May 2022

Trapping CO2 from the air is a costly bet to beat climate change — but money is flowing in anyway

News / Energy

China’s coal exit will not end Pakistan’s reliance on dirty fuel

...renewables and we need the world to step up and assist countries like Pakistan that are committed to a clean energy transition,” he told The Third Pole. The good news is that the world’s top two pollu...

29 Oct 2021

China’s coal exit will not end Pakistan’s reliance on dirty fuel

News / Energy

Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh

Japan should stop funding the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh as the emissions it produces will accelerate global warming and put the low-lying country at greater risk of climat...

31 Jan 2022

Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh

Coal miners at Lao Ye Temple Mine in Shanxi, China

News / Energy

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

...renewables in the grid,” Dr Cui tells Carbon Brief. She also says: "Given the construction period of coal plants [is] between 18 to 36 months or even longer, [China] is likely to see continued coal po...

30 Mar 2022

Analysis: what does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

News / Energy

‘A huge mistake’: alarm bells ring as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

With a four-page letter, the Pacific island nation of Nauru pushed the world closer to a reality in which large-scale mining doesn’t just take place on land, but also in the open ocean. In July 2021, ...

12 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: alarm bells ring as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

...renewables: underestimated potential DRE can seamlessly fit all kinds of energy needs. There is no limit to the flexibility that DRE brings to energy planning. Mini grids are ideal for communities wit...

29 Sep 2021

Asia must pivot to clean energy to give global climate action a chance — distributed renewables is the best way

A coal-fired power station owned by Ayala Corporation in South Luzon

News / Carbon & Climate

Green hush could lead to 'vicious circle' of corporate non-disclosure and inaction

Companies that stop communicating their sustainability progress risk setting off a "vicious circle" of corporate non-disclosure and climate inaction, experts worry. A recent report by South Pole, a cl...

12 Dec 2022

Green hush could lead to 'vicious circle' of corporate non-disclosure and inaction

News / Energy

Questions over Russia-funded nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could delay the completion of Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant. With a planned capacity of 2,400 megawatts – around twice the generating capacity of the Payra coal p...

14 Apr 2022

Questions over Russia-funded nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

Press Releases / DNV

DNV expanding hydrogen expertise in Asia Pacific

...renewables. Scott Trevean, senior hydrogen engineer, APAC Trevean is focused on driving the energy transition through the technical development and scaling-up of the nascent hydrogen industry to ena...

22 Apr 2022

DNV expanding hydrogen expertise in Asia Pacific

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