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Are net zero data centres in Asia Pacific just a lofty ambition?

...renewables. But under RE100 guidelines, the electricity consumed by the members must be produced within the same market boundary as it is consumed, posing challenges for companies operating in Asia Pa...

24 Mar 2021

Are net zero data centres in Asia Pacific just a lofty ambition?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Philippines considers a power sector future without new coal

...renewable energy investment. Earlier this month, AC Energy and joint venture partner UPC Renewables made a high profile US$ 539.1 million takeover bid for Infigen, one of Australia’s largest wind asse...

12 Jun 2020

The Philippines considers a power sector future without new coal

News / Energy

Costly, dirty, and excessive: Report rings alarm bells over Pakistan’s fossil fuel-heavy power plans

...renewable energy resources largely untouched after this decade, and build more coal and liquefied natural gas power plants than it needs, saddling the country with a significant financial burden, warn...

7 Sep 2020

Costly, dirty, and excessive: Report rings alarm bells over Pakistan’s fossil fuel-heavy power plans

News / Energy

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

Sukhpal Singh Tomar, 53, a resident of Lohari village in Uttarakhand and a teacher by profession, narrates the incident that led to the the loss of his home. “It will be nearly a month after the subme...

13 May 2022

Community reels as Indian hydropower project leaves homes, farms drowned

Press Releases / GAIA Asia Pacific

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

...renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. In the Philippines and the rest of Asia, Dr. Emmanuel notes that about half of municipal waste is composed of organic discards, which should be segreg...

26 Nov 2021

Extinguishing waste-to-energy incineration myths

Corporations including two of the world's biggest carmakers, search engine giant Google and electronics manufacturer Samsung have signed a statement opposing the mining of the deep sea-bed floor.

News / Manufacturing

Samsung, Google, BMW and Volvo join call to ban deep sea-bed mining

Four multinational corporations that use rare metals for the electronic components in their products have called for a temporary ban on deep sea-bed mining, because of the environmental impact that mi...

1 Apr 2021

Samsung, Google, BMW and Volvo join call to ban deep sea-bed mining

News / Policy & Finance

China’s climate lead offers the planet new hope

...renewables, was he trying to upstage climate-denying and coal-loving President Trump, was he trying to divert attention from internal human rights issues and Hong Kong, or from accusations against Chi...

21 Oct 2020

China’s climate lead offers the planet new hope

News / Policy & Finance

Unless China reconciles conflicting priorities this decade, only an economic crash will deliver its climate pledge

...renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, the push for greater self-sufficiency in energy supply saw it ease curbs on coal power plant development in 2019. This led local authorities to approve...

26 Feb 2021

Unless China reconciles conflicting priorities this decade, only an economic crash will deliver its climate pledge

News / Carbon & Climate

Booming shorebirds at Borneo wetland buck East Asia’s downward trend

The tide comes in quickly. “You have to move, move, move,” says Rose Au. “Within a few minutes, it’s up to your knees!” Coupled with the dangers of getting stuck in the mud or encountering a crocodile...

10 May 2022

Booming shorebirds at Borneo wetland buck East Asia’s downward trend

News / Energy

How stored electricity can make cleaner fuels

With renewable energy now the cheapest way of mass-producing electricity, the race is on to find the best way to conserve the surplus for use at peak times, and also to use the stored electricity to d...

23 Jul 2020

How stored electricity can make cleaner fuels

News / Corporate Responsibility

Japanese companies defy pandemic to lead Asia in ranking of world’s most sustainable corporations

...renewable energy firm Ørsted and Brazilian financial institution Banco do Brasil. The Global 100, which is usually published on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum held yearly in Davos, Switzerl...

26 Jan 2021

Japanese companies defy pandemic to lead Asia in ranking of world’s most sustainable corporations

Coke's beverage bottle made from 100 per cent plant-based plastic

News / Waste

Plant-based bottles and paper straws: spotting false solutions in anti-plastic declarations

...renewables instead of fossil fuels, said Mario Grimau, a polymer engineer and materials science specialist at Spring, a United States-based sustainable packaging think tank. “In the case of biobased p...

9 May 2022

Plant-based bottles and paper straws: spotting false solutions in anti-plastic declarations

News / Energy

India mulls battery swapping policy to spur more electric vehicle converts

Mayur Roy, a 31-year-old businessman from Cuttack in Odisha, bought an electric scooter (a two-wheeler) earlier this year, with an intention to move towards a non-polluting mode of transport. He uses ...

9 May 2022

India mulls battery swapping policy to spur more electric vehicle converts

Oil storage tanks at the Wynyard Quarter in Auckland, New Zealand

News / Energy

World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal

...renewable growth, but this year leaves it largely unchanged.) While this year’s “business-as-usual” scenario does not significantly alter the outlook for renewables compared with last year’s edition, ...

16 Sep 2020

World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal

Research / SolAbility Sustainable Intelligence

The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2020

...renewable energy usage are lower in intensity when measured per economic output: high wealth levels and low resource intensity are not mutually exclusive outcomes. Intellectual Capital: Asian nations...

7 Dec 2020

The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2020

metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

News / Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

...renewable developments. When combined with changes in government policy over the past year, these lower costs mean that the IEA has again raised its outlook for renewables over the next 20 years. This...

19 Oct 2020

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

News / Carbon & Climate

Covid-19 will weaken energy demand for decades—but world still losing climate fight, warns report

...renewables are expected to revolutionise the global energy landscape and transport will be increasingly electrified, DNV predicts the world is heading for a rise in average global temperatures of 2.3 ...

10 Sep 2020

Covid-19 will weaken energy demand for decades—but world still losing climate fight, warns report

News / Policy & Finance

LNG in the Philippines: Are investors risking US$14 billion in stranded assets?

...renewables come online and reduce the utilisation rates of gas-fired power plants,” said Reynolds. “Idle capacity can result in the asset becoming stranded, meaning that it earns a smaller economic re...

12 May 2021

LNG in the Philippines: Are investors risking US$14 billion in stranded assets?

News / Carbon & Climate

Countries fail to agree on Antarctic conservation measures for fifth straight year

For the fifth year in a row, a council of nations involved in Antarctic fishing operations have failed to agree on new conservation measures which experts had hoped would protect the Southern Ocean fr...

19 Nov 2021

Countries fail to agree on Antarctic conservation measures for fifth straight year

News / Carbon & Climate

China’s pivot from funding coal plants to gasification slammed as mostly the same

...renewable energies that are proven [rather] than focusing on an unsure technology like carbon capture.” This is reminiscent of arguments used to promote coal-fired power plants. Despite promises of cl...

15 Dec 2021

China’s pivot from funding coal plants to gasification slammed as mostly the same

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