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Even if Trump wins the race to the White House, emissions would go down

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate: The differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

...the total annual emissions of the EU and Japan, or the world’s 140 lowest-emitting countries, or double the emissions savings from wind, solar and other clean technologies around the world in the past...

27 Jul 2024

Climate: The differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

News / Energy

Air conditioner curbs add to heat deaths—but renewables can help

...The study covered the years 2011 to 2015, the period energy conservation measures in response to the nuclear shutdown remained in effect. The data suggests that well-intended public policy aimed at cu...

7 Feb 2023

Air conditioner curbs add to heat deaths—but renewables can help

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Extended Producer Responsibility Roundtable Series sparks solutions to Malaysia’s waste challenge through sharing of best practices

...the lifecycle of their products, including the post-consumer stage, the speakers noted their hopes that the DRS – a key component of the EPR – would incentivise consumers to return empty b...

26 Jul 2024

Extended Producer Responsibility Roundtable Series sparks solutions to Malaysia’s waste challenge through sharing of best practices

News / Energy

Nepal's power lines are bird death traps amid hydropower boom

...the past seven years, the utility says, with another 3,100 km (1,900 mi) of lines in the works across the country. And while the laying of new lines requires a prior environmental impact assessment, t...

30 May 2023

Nepal's power lines are bird death traps amid hydropower boom

News / Carbon & Climate

3 things the world must do to turbocharge decarbonisation

...when the rail transport network in England propelled the industrial revolution, said the study. “Tipping points happen when new technologies start to outcompete existing ones. Once you cross them, th...

27 Jan 2023

3 things the world must do to turbocharge decarbonisation

News / Water

After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia

...the wider Southern India region sometimes announce temporary shutdowns, asking their employees to work from home because they are unable to keep the premises operational due to water scarcity. “Unfor...

15 May 2024

After decades of underinvestment, the tide might finally be turning for water innovation in Asia

News / Energy

How can the green jobs boom avoid leaving workers behind?

...their students aware of the climate challenges they will face in their professional lives, such as more extreme weather, she said. Today the "binding constraint" for a low-carbon transition is not fin...

2 May 2023

How can the green jobs boom avoid leaving workers behind?

News / Transport

Replacing traditional tricycles with e-trikes in tropical Boracay – a transition that needs to be just: GerWeiss Motors chief

...the e-trikes, worried for the loss of their livelihoods and whether it will be costly to adopt the technology, so the firm's first priority was to assuage these concerns, by ensuring an efficient and ...

24 May 2023

Replacing traditional tricycles with e-trikes in tropical Boracay – a transition that needs to be just: GerWeiss Motors chief

200-hectare residential development on a river delta in Nhon Trach

News / Green Buildings

Taking cues from nature in urban design

...The longer we continue to build with an outdated paradigm of how nature works, the larger will be the collapse of our cities and societies as we know it, and the more extreme the sudden adjustment req...

15 Feb 2023

Taking cues from nature in urban design

News / Cities

Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals

...the next decade. At the Paris summit, Birol pledged that the IEA will closely monitor where the finance is spent and reveal the results in a year. Throughout the conference, heads of state, ministers ...

24 May 2024

Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals

News / Energy

Early retirement of the Philippines' coal fleet would cost US$10.6 billion: Study

...The projected outlay would include buying out the fleet's power supply agreements (PSA) based on the yearly cost of the electricity generated by each coal plant from 2020 to 2023. The Philippines cur...

24 Jan 2024

Early retirement of the Philippines' coal fleet would cost US$10.6 billion: Study

News / Energy

Carbon credits for coal power phaseout offer up both money and complexity

...the team at the Coal to Clean Credits Initiative (CCCI), a project led by The Rockefeller Foundation and another US-based nonprofit, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. The consortium is...

4 Jul 2023

Carbon credits for coal power phaseout offer up both money and complexity

News / Energy

Renewable energy REITs and what they mean for Asia’s green ambitions

...the opportunity to sink in capital in the real estate market, without the need to directly and individually purchase, own, or manage property themselves. Singapore leads the Southeast Asian region, in...

22 Sep 2023

Renewable energy REITs and what they mean for Asia’s green ambitions

News / Policy & Finance

How will India find the climate finance it needs to go green?

...When G20 leaders gather in New Delhi in September, the issue of how to fund the action needed to turn their economies green and tackle climate change will be high on the agenda. India, which has posit...

23 Aug 2023

How will India find the climate finance it needs to go green?

News / Policy & Finance

‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan

...they don’t fully appreciate what the point was, and the point was the self-sufficiency of the American spirit.” Today, the US is no longer reliant on oil from the Middle East and is, in fact, the worl...

20 Mar 2024

‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan

News / Carbon & Climate

South Pole’s regional policy director on how Asia is leveraging its growing carbon markets to raise climate ambition

...ther-or. Staving off the worst of climate change is a race against the clock. We don’t have time to let the perfect get in the way of the good, and we don’t have the luxury of picking our favourite te...

5 Feb 2024

South Pole’s regional policy director on how Asia is leveraging its growing carbon markets to raise climate ambition

The southern coast of Obi Island, North Maluku, Indonesia. The sea has turned red due to pollution from the nickel mines and smelters.

News / Energy

Indonesia pledges nickel industry decarbonisation as social and biodiversity concerns linger

...the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning. The first step will be to map out the emissions trajectory of the industry, then plan how to decarbonise the trade and how to finance these e...

28 Jun 2024

Indonesia pledges nickel industry decarbonisation as social and biodiversity concerns linger

News / Energy

No model to follow for early coal-phase out: ADB regional director

...the ETM is expected to retire up to 50 per cent of the coal fleet in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam over the next ten to 15 years. Under the ADB’s initial agreement with Indonesia, the Cirebo...

1 Aug 2023

No model to follow for early coal-phase out: ADB regional director

News / Policy & Finance

Latin America approves plan for protecting environmental defenders

...the COP3 as a member of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle, the highest priority was to ensure their effective participation in the negotiations going forward. This...

9 May 2024

Latin America approves plan for protecting environmental defenders

Press Releases / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Regional UN forum to spotlight future of Asian and Pacific cities

...the context of the New Urban Agenda and the decade for action for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Forum is organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacif...

16 Oct 2023

Regional UN forum to spotlight future of Asian and Pacific cities

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