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News / Food & Agriculture

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, elusive ‘ghost rice’ holds key to climate resilience

“It’s been so long I can barely remember. It’s delicious, fragrant, soft but not sticky,” says Trần Văn Lựa, 53, a farmer from Đồng Tháp province, south-west Vietnam, recalling the taste of wild rice....

28 May 2025

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, elusive ‘ghost rice’ holds key to climate resilience

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate adaptation is as imperative as mitigation

Climate policy debates tend to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This makes sense, given that GHGs are the primary cause of climate change. But global warming is expected to continue even ...

4 Sep 2024

Climate adaptation is as imperative as mitigation

News / Waste

Analysis: Can Bangladesh’s single-use plastic crackdown succeed?

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the production, import, marketing and use of polythene bags, a type of single-use plastic bag. The ban, made through the Bangladesh Env...

4 Mar 2025

Analysis: Can Bangladesh’s single-use plastic crackdown succeed?

News / Policy & Finance

In pictures: The last hours of negotiations at COP29

It was at about 3pm last Saturday when COP29's media centre was abuzz with news that several country envoys had staged a walkout and left one of the meeting rooms at the far end of the Baku Olympic St...

27 Nov 2024

In pictures: The last hours of negotiations at COP29

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Is generative AI bad for the environment?

...carbon emissions. The open-access BLOOM model, developed by the BigScience project in France, is similar in size to GPT-3 but has a much lower carbon footprint, consuming 433 MWh of electricity in gen...

31 May 2023

Is generative AI bad for the environment?

News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?

...Carbon Brief looks at China’s cropland policies. What challenges does Chinese farming face under climate change? In 2022, China suffered from its worst heatwave and drought in six decades. The minis...

31 Aug 2023

Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Is the net-zero transition endangering the Asian century?

...carbon tax, they may be compelled to act, owing to rapidly shifting climate policies elsewhere, such as the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, which imposes tariffs on carbon-intensi...

19 Jul 2023

Is the net-zero transition endangering the Asian century?

Opinion / Transport

How is Southeast Asia’s charge to EVs going?

...carbon emissions but also a way to drive new investments leading to more jobs, stronger economic development and technological advances. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are leading the charg...

2 Nov 2023

How is Southeast Asia’s charge to EVs going?

Press Releases / UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Half the world’s countries have degraded freshwater systems, UN finds

...carbon sequestering properties. Significant decreases of mangroves were reported in Southeast Asia, though the overall net rate of deforestation has leveled off in the last decade. Lakes and other su...

1 Sep 2024

Half the world’s countries have degraded freshwater systems, UN finds

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore influencer Biogirl MJ on going beyond 'cute animal' content to tackle climate complexities

...carbon markets using supermarkets where people buy and sell tonnes of carbon, to make it as palatable to laymen as possible. The goal of my channel is really to make more people interested in environm...

11 Mar 2024

Singapore influencer Biogirl MJ on going beyond 'cute animal' content to tackle climate complexities

News / Energy

‘No magic bullet’: Financial institutions say Malaysia still searching for right mechanism to de-risk green energy investments

...carbon-emitting industries, on their decarbonisation pathways. Moi said that financial institutions should work with their clients and find a decarbonisation pathway to commit to. While the gold stand...

11 Sep 2023

‘No magic bullet’: Financial institutions say Malaysia still searching for right mechanism to de-risk green energy investments

News / Carbon & Climate

Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years

...Carbon Brief. She adds that “relatively simple measures, such as educating people of the risks, can have a huge benefit”. This story was published with permission from Carbon Brief.

4 Sep 2023

News / Food & Agriculture

Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’

...carbon in the atmosphere. “ Investing in the construction of seaweed farms could prevent global famine in abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios, potentially averting a significant number of deaths from...

31 Jan 2024

Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’

News / Carbon & Climate

Latest bid to regulate the voluntary carbon market leaves tough questions unanswered

...Carbon Market Watch in response to the ICVCM’s rulebook. “While the new rules help enhance the quality of carbon credits, they do not close all loopholes of the voluntary carbon market,” said Carbon M...

10 Apr 2023

Latest bid to regulate the voluntary carbon market leaves tough questions unanswered

Press Releases / Cathay Pacific

Cathay to plant 1,000 mangrove trees on Pramuka Island to promote sustainability commitment

Upholding the target of reducing emissions to preserve our planet is the responsibility of all parties. Cathay, as a Travel Lifestyle company, collaborated with the Society of Renewable Energy (SRE) t...

8 May 2024

Cathay to plant 1,000 mangrove trees on Pramuka Island to promote sustainability commitment

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

America's attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton

...carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been for at least 800,000 years. Our temperatures are the highest they have been for 120,000 years. The rate of increase in carbon dioxide is faster tha...

23 Apr 2025

America's attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton

An outdoor advertisement for ride-hailing service Grab highlights the congestion and discomfort of taking public transport in Singapore.

News / Transport

Complaints about Grab 'anti-public transport' ad dismissed by Singapore advertising watchdog

...carbon inventory of a newly acquired supermarket business. Grab pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040 a year ago, a strategy the company is pursuing by electrifying its fleet, running operations on re...

21 Jun 2023

Complaints about Grab 'anti-public transport' ad dismissed by Singapore advertising watchdog

News / Water

‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining

...Carbon Brief. Deep-sea minerals The deep seabed covers about two-thirds of the total ocean floor, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Spread across parts of the s...

3 Aug 2023

‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining

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News / Energy

South Asia's solar energy push faces a battle for land

Famed for its Sun Temple dedicated to the sun god, Modhera in Gujarat state became India's first fully solar-powered village in 2022, but a legal case against the plant is still in court as residents...

22 Nov 2024

South Asia's solar energy push faces a battle for land

Press Releases / The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy takes root in Singapore to advance a nature-positive future

...carbon and sustainable future, and establish Singapore as a carbon services hub in Asia. By expanding into Singapore, TNC is helping to put action behind Singapore’s green ambitions by drawing u...

24 Jul 2023

The Nature Conservancy takes root in Singapore to advance a nature-positive future

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