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Development dilemma: How did coal sneak into Laos' energy plans?

...renewable energy technologies if the political mandate is clear." In the absence of clear government policy on renewables that de-risks clean energy investments, the proponents of the new coal project...

16 Jul 2020

Development dilemma: How did coal sneak into Laos' energy plans?

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In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes

When a riverbank subsided and gave way four years ago, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in an instant....

6 Jul 2022

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to end logging in Borneo

Indigenous Penan tribespeople have set up road blocks to stop a timber company from logging on land in Malaysian Borneo that they consider part of their ancestral heritage. The Penan erected their fir...

15 Oct 2021

Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to end logging in Borneo

Orangutan looks through bars at Pata Zoo, Bangkok

News / Policy & Finance

Capturing the cruelty of orangutan tourism in Asia

The work of Aaron Gekoski is unlikely to be found on Netflix anytime soon. An executive for the video streaming service recently told the British wildlife documentary maker and photojournalist that wh...

5 Sep 2022

Capturing the cruelty of orangutan tourism in Asia

News / Energy

Can crowd investors spur the clean energy transition?

...renewables for years. Nicolas Payen, co-founder and chief executive at Positive Energy Limited, a Singapore-based digital platform for renewable investments, said: “Crowdfunding platforms give individ...

2 Jun 2020

Can crowd investors spur the clean energy transition?

News / Water

New platform aims to reveal dam and climate impacts on the Mekong

...Renewable Energy Engineering Institute in a December report. River of rhetoric Severe droughts have stripped away fishing and farming communities’ livelihoods in lower Mekong nations in recent years....

17 Mar 2021

New platform aims to reveal dam and climate impacts on the Mekong

News / Carbon & Climate

Are trade unions unlikely allies in the climate fight?

...renewable energy," he said, emphasising that this depends on whether the firms have the resources and money to invest in new technologies. He acknowledged that Singapore's green policies are slow, pri...

21 Dec 2021

Are trade unions unlikely allies in the climate fight?

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Proposal to carve up Indonesian Papua rings endangers people and forests

The Indonesian government’s plan to administratively split the country’s easternmost region of Papua into five provinces, from the current two, has raised concerns that its forests and natural resourc...

22 Apr 2022

Proposal to carve up Indonesian Papua rings endangers people and forests

News / Carbon & Climate

How will China's carbon neutrality pledge affect the nation's energy transition?

...renewable capacity expansion between 2019 and 2024. But coal demand and production capacity in the nation remain high. At present, out of every four tons of coal consumed around the world, one is burn...

23 Sep 2020

How will China's carbon neutrality pledge affect the nation's energy transition?

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EB Impact launches a second edition of ‘Sustainability Exchange’ with Facebook and OCBC Bank

...renewable energy when operational, we are committed to exploring ways to help drive sustainability efforts and supporting the local communities we serve,” added Chua. Ms Koh Ching Ching, OCBC H...

20 Oct 2021

EB Impact launches a second edition of ‘Sustainability Exchange’ with Facebook and OCBC Bank

Narendra Modi visiting the India Pavilion

News / Carbon & Climate

All eyes on India as COP26 summit starts

...renewable energy capacity by 2030; a mission to push green hydrogen as a clean fuel; achieving land degradation neutrality to handle emissions from agriculture; and an enhanced tree-planting drive. Th...

1 Nov 2021

All eyes on India as COP26 summit starts

Clarisse Kehler Siebert, Nexus for Development

News / Carbon & Climate

Nexus for Development appoints Clarisse Kehler Siebert as executive director

...renewable energy and water projects in developing Asia, has appointed Clarisse Kehler Siebert as executive director. Siebert, a lawyer by background, brings 15 years of experience in climate change an...

13 May 2020

Nexus for Development appoints Clarisse Kehler Siebert as executive director

News / Water

As Nepal runs dry, communities tap water harvesting

...renewable fresh water per person, down from 8,770 cubic metres a decade earlier, according to the World Bank. Studies show the population in the Kathmandu Valley — home to more than 2.5 million people...

7 Oct 2021

As Nepal runs dry, communities tap water harvesting

News / Manufacturing

What does the future hold for sustainable packaging?

...renewable energy to power its operations. As well as investing US$5 million to put solar panels on the roofs of its factories, RyPax has invested US$1 million in a wastewater system. In this interview...

28 Jan 2022

What does the future hold for sustainable packaging?

News / Carbon & Climate

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

...renewables to the maximum extent, advance nuclear energy policies with safety at the heart, and alter its policy on coal-fired power generation. While a welcome step by the fifth-largest emitter of ca...

26 Oct 2020

Japan vows to become carbon neutral by 2050

News / Policy & Finance

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to retrieve licenses

Palm oil companies in Indonesia’s West Papua province are suing a local district head for revoking their permits, the second such case filed since authorities last year rescinded licenses for concessi...

27 Jan 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to retrieve licenses

News / Energy

Philippine banks' long road to clean energy

...renewables. BDO, the Philippine’s largest commercial bank, is second, financing about 2 GW of mostly geothermal and solar projects. Together, they finance over 60 per cent of the country’s 7.2 GW of r...

20 May 2020

Philippine banks' long road to clean energy

A solar installation in Singapore by LYS Energy Group. Image: LYS Energy

News / Energy

Fear? Cost? Fame? What’s turning on Asian businesses to renewable energy?

...renewables, and why he's optimistic that the energy transition will happen faster that we think. What is the main the reason corporations are buying renewable energy? Cost saving? Compliance? The good...

24 Feb 2020

Fear? Cost? Fame? What’s turning on Asian businesses to renewable energy?

News / Energy

Companies race to net zero

From electric corporate fleets and rooftop solar to energy-efficient buildings and renewable energy certificates, there are opportunities aplenty for businesses to decarbonise their operations. Howeve...

22 Apr 2020

Companies race to net zero

News / Policy & Finance

Jean Marc Arbogast to lead IFC in the Philippines

...renewables, water and waste infrastructure, including waste-to-energy technologies. Arbogast’s experience in impact investment is seen to “help IFC optimise opportunities and mobilise the private sect...

4 Dec 2020

Jean Marc Arbogast to lead IFC in the Philippines

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