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Melting glaciers could burst hydropower dams in Asian highlands

Last spring, an avalanche of ice and rock swept down rivers in northern India and breached two hydropower dams. Over 200 people, mostly dam workers, were killed or went missing. The incident came eigh...

1 Jul 2022

Melting glaciers could burst hydropower dams in Asian highlands

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Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

...renewables. The United SAT-50 fund is also unique in the way its company selection process is driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI-ML), alongside the firm’s in-dept...

18 Oct 2022

Can sustainable Asian investing pay off?

News / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023

...Renewables offer a source of much-needed and well-paid employment if the industry is given support from governments around the world." Fatima Denton, director, United Nations University Institute for ...

28 Dec 2022

Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023

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COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

African activists have called at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt for an end to expansion of fossil fuels on the continent, highlighting that the industry has left a large share of people still w...

11 Nov 2022

COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists criticised amid Africa energy debate

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India's climate entrepreneurs are struggling to finance their future

When 24-year-old Shani Pandya wanted to launch a solar tree venture four years ago, he had to mortgage his parents’ home in the western Indian state of Gujarat to supplement the small seed capital tha...

25 Aug 2022

India's climate entrepreneurs are struggling to finance their future

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Against the odds: pursuing another chance for green recovery in ASEAN

...renewables in the total primary energy supply by 2025. This is to be achieved by increasing the share of renewables in installed power capacity by 35 per cent from 2005 levels, and reducing energy int...

14 Feb 2022

Against the odds: pursuing another chance for green recovery in ASEAN

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia pins hopes on carbon capture to cut emissions

...renewables struggle to keep pace with the bloc's ballooning energy needs, and fossil fuels have met almost 90 per cent of the demand increase since 2000. Dirty energy is set to remain a mainstay of su...

18 Aug 2021

Southeast Asia pins hopes on carbon capture to cut emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about how to limit warming to 1.5C or 2C

...renewables (Ren) – produce climate outcomes that limit warming to 1.5C with “no or limited overshoot” (C1). A pathway featuring extensive use of net-negative emissions (Neg) results in warming below 1...

8 Apr 2022

Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about how to limit warming to 1.5C or 2C

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Will China kick its coal habit?

China is stuck between a fossil fuel-dependent past and a future powered by renewable energy. The country today generates 53 per cent of the world’s coal-fired power. At the same time, it is the world...

3 Aug 2021

Will China kick its coal habit?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The implications of EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for Southeast Asia

Three decades of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have not achieved the desired results, calling into question the practicality of global, all-enco...

23 Aug 2022

The implications of EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for Southeast Asia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The EU’s carbon border tax could hurt developing countries

In July 2021, the European Commission did something that no other major governing body had ever attempted: It tied trade policy to climate policy. Reaching the European Union’s goal of cutting net gre...

27 Jun 2022

The EU’s carbon border tax could hurt developing countries

Press Releases / Archwey

Archwey, the sustainable materials engineering group, launches global headquarters in Singapore

Archwey, the holding group of three companies that are changing the game when it comes to innovative means of reusing and reducing plastic waste: Arch & Hook, Shieldler and PlasticBean – has...

25 Jul 2022

Archwey, the sustainable materials engineering group, launches global headquarters in Singapore

News / Carbon & Climate

COP26: is finance for climate action ‘flowing’?

In August, Alok Sharma, the UK’s president of COP26, the upcoming UN climate talks, cited one of the top priorities of the talks as “getting finance flowing to climate action, both public and private,...

22 Oct 2021

COP26: is finance for climate action ‘flowing’?

Climate tech podcast with Steve Melhuish

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

'Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk': Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?

...renewables has come down by 90 per cent and is cheaper in most cases than fossil fuel, particularly if you take away the trillions of dollars of subsidies. So the timing is good now because the cost i...

4 Jul 2024

'Five years ago, everyone wanted to be Elon Musk': Where is climate tech in Southeast Asia now?

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Thousands of people at risk of being displaced by hydropower in central Nepal

On a bright winter’s morning, a small group of women gather in the tiny yard behind a makeshift shelter. They spread cereals out on the ground to dry, knit handicrafts, drink tea, and enjoy the warmth...

16 Mar 2023

Thousands of people at risk of being displaced by hydropower in central Nepal

Alsons Power Group's second 105-MW coal plant in central Mindanao

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Retiring or repurposing Asia’s coal plants: why owners must plan and act now

...renewables is also resulting in the steady displacement of coal power generation from the grid. This increased contribution of variable renewable generation, along with inadequate ancillary support li...

23 Aug 2021

Retiring or repurposing Asia’s coal plants: why owners must plan and act now

News / Policy & Finance

How hot is too hot to work? Heatwaves renew workers' rights push

Ismael García has been sweeping the sultry streets of Madrid for 24 years, but this summer something changed: his family worried every time he set off for work in the Spanish capital. "People were say...

10 Oct 2022

How hot is too hot to work? Heatwaves renew workers' rights push

News / Energy

Q&A: What does the UK’s new energy security strategy mean for climate change?

...Renewables are modular, flexible, cheap, not a security risk, and the government’s surveys show 86 per cent public support for them.” In a statement, Prof Peter Bruce, vice president of the Royal Soci...

12 Apr 2022

Q&A: What does the UK’s new energy security strategy mean for climate change?

Alexey Kulapin, director general, Russia Energy Agency

News / Energy

Russia is promoting natural gas to Southeast Asia as an 'eco-friendly' fuel

...renewables. "For some Asean countries, switching from coal to renewables is not feasible currently. Gas is the ideal transition fuel to supply enough energy for power generation to support renewable e...

16 Jul 2021

Russia is promoting natural gas to Southeast Asia as an 'eco-friendly' fuel

News / Policy & Finance

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

The 1960s and early 1970s were critical times for the environment in industrialised countries. The public, and some politicians, had woken up to the global threat of oil spills, acid rain and wildlife...

3 Jun 2022

UNEP at 50: what has the world’s ‘environmental conscience’ achieved?

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