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Ria O'Hehir Australia Smart Energy Council

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Australia’s Smart Energy Council adds Ria O’Hehir to its board

...renewables sector, said Grimes. “We will be campaigning hard in the coming months to get our politicians to support the renewables sector, which is reducing Australia’s emissions, boosting our economy...

13 Dec 2021

Australia’s Smart Energy Council adds Ria O’Hehir to its board

News / Energy

War in Ukraine has not increased EU fossil fuel consumption

Many observers have suggested the EU is increasing consumption of fossil fuels – particularly coal – as a reaction to the Ukraine war. However, data shows this is not true: consumption of gas and coal...

2 Mar 2023

War in Ukraine has not increased EU fossil fuel consumption

News / Water

Singaporeans, Australians top spenders on bottled water: UN study

People in Singapore spend the most on bottled water globally, splashing out on average over US$1,300 per head a year for their refreshments, a United Nations study showed. The money was used in 2021 t...

17 Mar 2023

Singaporeans, Australians top spenders on bottled water: UN study

News / Carbon & Climate

Here's how Asia Pacific's biggest cities might look in 2100

It's the turn of the next century, and downtown Auckland is half-smothered by the rising seas. Sooty buildings are spewing neon-orange sewage into the Pacific ocean, creating enclaves divided by cessp...

19 Dec 2022

Here's how Asia Pacific's biggest cities might look in 2100

News / Energy

Students for sustainability… Universiti Tenaga Nasional’s Ilanur Elyssa Bart

...renewables, with the hope of starting them young. Training sessions are conducted every Sunday at STEMbox, a one-tonne container that has been repurposed into a learning hub and green construction sh...

11 Oct 2022

Students for sustainability… Universiti Tenaga Nasional’s Ilanur Elyssa Bart

News / Energy

NZ investment firm eyes Asia's decarbonisation opportunity with Singapore renewables launch

A New Zealand investment firm is funding the launch of a renewables company in Singapore with the aim of riding the wave of climate action in a region under growing pressure to transition to clean ene...

12 Sep 2021

NZ investment firm eyes Asia's decarbonisation opportunity with Singapore renewables launch

News / Energy

Brunei banks on technology to preserve its economic lifeline: fossil fuel

...renewables to its energy mix. The Asean bloc had set a regional target of raising the share of renewables to 23 per cent of the regional energy mix by 2025. But the Asean Centre for Energy has noted t...

21 Oct 2021

Brunei banks on technology to preserve its economic lifeline: fossil fuel

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘The red line is shifting’: Environmental journalists in Asia feel the squeeze on freedom to speak truth to power

Two years ago, when Bangalore-based freelance journalist Vasudevan Sridharan tried investigating the pollution of a protected bird sanctuary by India's largest pharmaceutical firm, his work was hobble...

25 Jul 2023

‘The red line is shifting’: Environmental journalists in Asia feel the squeeze on freedom to speak truth to power

Press Releases / Asian Development Bank

ADB, Indonesia partners sign MOU on retirement of first coal power plant under Energy Transition Mechanism

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today joined with key partners in Indonesia to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly explore the early retirement of the first coal-fired power plant own...

14 Nov 2022

ADB, Indonesia partners sign MOU on retirement of first coal power plant under Energy Transition Mechanism

News / Energy

Singapore green-lights nuclear power in low-carbon energy import proposals

Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) is allowing firms to propose importing nuclear energy as part of a scheme to acquire low-carbon electricity from overseas. Only plans involving coal will be r...

7 Jul 2022

Singapore green-lights nuclear power in low-carbon energy import proposals

Opinion / Policy & Finance

War in Ukraine takes toll on East Asian economies

In today’s hyper-connected world, with our interlinked economies, migrant diasporas and 24-hour news channels, it’s no surprise that the war in Ukraine is being felt across the globe. The war has upen...

16 Jun 2022

War in Ukraine takes toll on East Asian economies

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024

As the two so-called Bretton Woods institutions mark their 80-year anniversary, they are under growing pressure to reform and deal with the “polycrisis” enveloping the world. Many developing nations a...

24 Apr 2024

Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024

Muhammad Yusrizk, chairman, KADIN Net Zero Hub

News / Carbon & Climate

Fear of losing trade pushing Indonesian firms to decarbonise: Net Zero Hub chief

...renewables procurement, such as direct investment and the green tariffs that exist in other countries to spur the energy transition. “ If developed countries want us to be part of the global supply ...

25 Oct 2022

Fear of losing trade pushing Indonesian firms to decarbonise: Net Zero Hub chief

News / Food & Agriculture

Solar pumps increase productivity, profits of West Bengal farmers

Compared to a year ago, Sanjit Biswas now worries less about his profits from farming. A small farmer owning a one-acre farm at Hazarinagar village in Hanskhali block of Nadia district, West Bengal, B...

14 Jul 2023

Solar pumps increase productivity, profits of West Bengal farmers

Opinion / Waste

UN Plastics Treaty: What can we learn from other international environmental agreements?

This week from 23 to 29 April, about 170 countries will continue the negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty to end plastic pollution. Will this international legally binding instrument save future ...

23 Apr 2024

UN Plastics Treaty: What can we learn from other international environmental agreements?

News / Energy

6 trends that will shape sustainability in 2023

...renewables like solar and wind to ensure energy security. On the other hand, many developing countries also lack ready infrastructure to facilitate this transition. As such, the just energy transitio...

27 Dec 2022

6 trends that will shape sustainability in 2023

News / Carbon & Climate

'Page views are not real impact': Mongabay founder Rhett Butler

...renewables. There seems to be a coordinated strategy behind it. While there is less climate denialism now – because the effects of climate change are so obvious – there's been a shift in strategy. Ra...

5 Oct 2022

'Page views are not real impact': Mongabay founder Rhett Butler

News / Energy

Nepal hydropower drive puts India over China, but what's the risk?

Competition over Nepal's mountain hydropower potential is intensifying with India moving ahead of China in a geopolitical tussle that several analysts and industry insiders fear could jeopardise the ...

25 May 2023

Nepal hydropower drive puts India over China, but what's the risk?

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

...renewables in the national energy mix to 23 per cent by 2025 and achieve its Paris Agreement commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 29 per cent by 2030. It also has a longer-term plan to a...

29 Oct 2021

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation (SLTEC) coal facility in Calaca, Batangas2

News / Policy & Finance

Philippine Catholic church to divest from fossil fuels by 2025

...renewables." In 2015, Pope Francis called on the world to phase out the use of fossil fuels in a 180-page encyclical on the environment. Since then, bishops of Belgium, Ireland, Austria and the Phil...

29 Jan 2022

Philippine Catholic church to divest from fossil fuels by 2025

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