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Legalising Bangladesh 'easy bike' taxis could drive safer, greener industry

...renewable energy in the overall mix, Khan added. Lead poisoning is another big environmental worry linked to electric vehicles, as their lead acid batteries are disposed of every few months at more th...

5 May 2022

Legalising Bangladesh 'easy bike' taxis could drive safer, greener industry

News / Cities

Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise again. Last week the heat in New Delhi, India’s capital, matched that of...

29 May 2022

Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

Frasers Property Australia’s One Central Park in Sydney.

News / Green Buildings

How will Frasers Property reach net-zero?

...renewable energy. While those solutions are readily available, Frasers Property will partly be banking on solutions that are still in development to reach its target and, trickier still, will be relyi...

26 Jul 2021

How will Frasers Property reach net-zero?

Opinion / Transport

A new transport agenda to carry Asia-Pacific towards sustainable development

...renewable energy in some countries is an opportunity to switch to electric mobility in public transport. To support these efforts, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pa...

15 Dec 2021

A new transport agenda to carry Asia-Pacific towards sustainable development

News / Policy & Finance

World Bank’s public consultation and Indonesia investments come under fire from green groups. Is any multilateral development bank currently Paris-aligned?

...renewables Responding to Eco-Business’ queries, a World Bank spokesperson said between 2015 and 2019, it committed nearly US$9.4 billion in financing to renewable energy and energy efficiency projects...

2 Feb 2021

World Bank’s public consultation and Indonesia investments come under fire from green groups. Is any multilateral development bank currently Paris-aligned?

Opinion / Energy

Will China’s carbon-neutrality pledge green BRI investments?

...renewable energy development. Bangladesh is reconsidering several planned coal plants, but there are worrying indications of a “dash for gas” rather than renewables – indicating the importance of nati...

3 Nov 2020

Will China’s carbon-neutrality pledge green BRI investments?

News / Policy & Finance

Philippine bank RCBC to stop funding coal

...renewable energy. "To create a robust electric grid, there has to be a combination of renewables and a few power plants that are usually gas-fired. So we might have a combinaion of gas and a lot of r...

11 Dec 2020

Philippine bank RCBC to stop funding coal

News / Manufacturing

Innovation key to climate-conscious, accessible healthcare: Philips sustainability chief

...renewable. Once it is evaporated, it goes into the atmosphere and sometimes because it's such a small molecule, it even leaves the atmosphere. So, it's an extremely precious resource. We have desig...

18 Jan 2023

Innovation key to climate-conscious, accessible healthcare: Philips sustainability chief

News / Green Buildings

Starting at the source: Greening the built environment’s supply chains

...renewable energy,” said Maxine Chen, formerly its sustainability communications specialist for Asia Pacific. “After we reduced our products’ emissions to the lowest levels in our industry, it becam...

13 Apr 2021

Starting at the source: Greening the built environment’s supply chains

News / Energy

Petronas is Asia's first oil company to set net zero target

...renewable energy. Last year, the company acquired Singapore-based solar firm Amplus Energy Solutions. In September the Malaysian firm was reportedly looking to acquire a stake in Delhi-based Tata Powe...

29 Oct 2020

Petronas is Asia's first oil company to set net zero target

News / Policy & Finance

China’s 2060 climate pledge is ‘largely consistent’ with 1.5C goal, study finds

...renewables under the 1.5C warming limit. It forecasts renewables to increase by 1.3Gtce by 2050 – 175 per cent higher than in the “no-policy” equivalent. The group of charts below represent the predic...

27 Apr 2021

China’s 2060 climate pledge is ‘largely consistent’ with 1.5C goal, study finds

Solar power in the state of Maharashtra in India

News / Energy

India’s energy policy is key to the planet’s future

...renewables for manufacturing rather than fossil fuels must be found. There is also a need to replace and improve cooking stoves using gas and electricity instead of firewood and other traditional fuel...

23 Feb 2021

India’s energy policy is key to the planet’s future

News / Energy

PETRONAS: Growing green shoots in the oil and gas industry

...renewable energy capacity by 2024, through renewables unit PETRONAS New Energy. Dr Jay Mariyappan, head of PETRONAS New Energy, said that its investments will help to future-proof the firm: “We can pr...

24 Nov 2020

PETRONAS: Growing green shoots in the oil and gas industry

News / Carbon & Climate

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

...renewable energy, as well as to spur rapid global development in fields such as renewable power generation and smart grids. The new renewables target means adding 80 gigawatts of wind and solar capaci...

17 Dec 2020

Are China’s new 2030 climate targets ambitious enough?

News / Carbon & Climate

Northern Pakistan’s neglected peatlands are disappearing

Amin Baig makes a living from yaks in Ishkarwarz village, in a remote part of northern Pakistan. He used to own between 20 and 40 of the long-haired cattle, but about 10 years ago had to sell 12 in on...

20 May 2022

Northern Pakistan’s neglected peatlands are disappearing

News / Energy

Engie kicks off new Singapore research project to make net zero carbon happen

...renewables, typically at the expense of coal. But renewables’ wildly fluctuating power output continues to give Southeast Asia’s energy planners headaches as utility firms struggle to upgrade underdev...

27 Nov 2020

Engie kicks off new Singapore research project to make net zero carbon happen

News / Carbon & Climate

Great Barrier Reef row piles pressure on Australia for climate action

...renewable energy and electric vehicles. "It is inevitable that Australia will embrace a renewable future — a future where we take climate change much more seriously," said WWF's Leck. This story was p...

24 Jun 2021

Great Barrier Reef row piles pressure on Australia for climate action

News / Corporate Responsibility

Fossil fuel firms face new challenge over 'greenwashing' ads

...renewable energy, the company spent just 0.2 per cent of its annual capital expenditure budget – roughly $26 million a year — on lower-carbon energy sources. In a statement, Chevron called the complai...

24 Jun 2021

Fossil fuel firms face new challenge over 'greenwashing' ads

News / Carbon & Climate

G7 pins hopes on ‘climate club’ as the saviour of 1.5C target

One of the achievements of COP26 in Glasgow, according to a UK government statement, was that it kept alive the goal of keeping average global temperature rise within 1.5C. That this can be considered...

30 Jun 2022

G7 pins hopes on ‘climate club’ as the saviour of 1.5C target

News / Carbon & Climate

Indian traditions entwine with trees in green drive to revive land

With saplings in hand and faces veiled by colourful sarees, Suman and Sarita Takariya's relatives sang traditional songs as the sisters planted small shrubs at their combined pre-wedding celebration i...

6 Jun 2022

Indian traditions entwine with trees in green drive to revive land

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