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The incumbent government’s vision for a sustainable future for Thailand is being criticised ahead of Sunday’s snap general election. Local communities, opposition parties and environmental groups say ...

11 May 2023

B Lab has appointed a chief executive to run its fledgling operation in Singapore. The non-profit behind the sustainable business certification scheme B Corp has named former finance professional Amel...

16 Jun 2023

The number of Asian companies represented on the world’s longest-running sustainability index has jumped up this year, driven by new additions from Taiwan and Japan. 134 Asia Pacific-based firms made ...

20 Dec 2023

Indeed, in the world of project financing, any supposed rebound has been illusory. The financing of coal power outside of China has now hit its lowest point since 2010, according to our latest figures...

14 Jul 2023

Southeast Asia must retire more than five gigawatts (GW) of coal plants per year, enough to light up around four million homes, over the next two decades to phase out the fossil fuel in the region, ac...

18 Apr 2023

...equities fail to recognise women's roles in both skilled and unskilled labour, issues of land ownership and rights, restricted access to financial resources and the unequal distribution (often unpaid)...

29 Jan 2024

COP28 hosts first ever Youth Stocktake with YOUNGO to “build a global legacy” on climate action

COP28’s flagship Youth, Children, Skills and Education Day puts young people at the center of climate diplomacy like never before with a series of events designed to facilitate meaningful dial...

9 Dec 2023

Generally seen as a focal point for global economic and development issues, this year’s event took place amid unprecedented pressure to accelerate climate action. Climate-vulnerable countries, increas...

5 May 2023

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has appointed Riccardo Puliti as its regional vice-president for Asia and the Pacific. He will continue to be based in Washington DC, United States, but wil...

2 Feb 2023

In the run-up to the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP 28) on climate change, Southeast Asia is in the spotlight not only as a hotspot for climate impacts but also for the urgency to take climate ac...

13 Oct 2023

It is official: July was the hottest month on record. Global warming is happening, and its costs continue to mount. The World Meteorological Organization recently noted that, “Extreme weather, climate...

11 Sep 2023

Young people are suing their governments in the state of Montana and in European countries, accusing them of not doing enough to protect the environment. They have effectively stepped up from a case ...

6 Oct 2023

ADB operations reach US$20.5 billion in 2022, addressing crises, building resilience

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed US$20.5 billion from its own resources in 2022 to help Asia and the Pacific continue its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic despite fresh economic headwin...

2 May 2023

CapitaLand Investment establishes CapitaLand China Opportunistic Partners Programme

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) has established the CapitaLand China Opportunistic Partners Programme (CCOP Programme), with a total of S$1.1 billion equity committed to invest in special situatio...

1 Mar 2023

In December 2015, on the eve of the closing plenary of the COP21 climate summit, where the final wording of the historic Paris Agreement on climate change would be adopted, Dr Gary Theseira was under ...

4 Apr 2025

A mammoth task awaits environment ministers across the world who are arriving at Expo City Dubai to hammer out a COP28 deal in the next five days: they will need to find ways to help developing countr...

8 Dec 2023

World leaders are this week seeking to salvage stalled global targets to fight issues such as hunger, poverty and climate change that have been knocked off course in recent years by the Covid pandemi...

20 Sep 2023

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

...equities in IPCC models and their implications for decarbonisation, going forward. Mitigation The idea of “keeping 1.5°C alive” has historically been a rallying cry from Small Island Developing States...

22 Nov 2023

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

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