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Workers walk at a solar power station in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, China

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China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan

...renewable power, electric vehicles and battery storage as a chance to seize the lead in a growing global industry, they added. As the Asian economic powerhouse tries to identify the technology of the ...

4 Mar 2021

China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan

News / Energy

In bittersweet move, Vietnam approves second feed-in-tariff scheme for solar

...renewable energy supply chains. “This is good news. The new scheme brings certainty and visibility for the industry, and people now know what they can work with in the coming months. Project developer...

7 Apr 2020

In bittersweet move, Vietnam approves second feed-in-tariff scheme for solar

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green fund fever grips China. But is it sustainable?

...renewable energy sources, lack of energy efficiency, and rapidly growing energy demand. On a more positive note, let’s remember that China has been a hub for innovation for years. It is already a lead...

15 Jan 2021

Green fund fever grips China. But is it sustainable?

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WEF’s head of nature and biodiversity: we are using public funds to destroy public goods

The biodiversity crisis has been sidelined in the climate debate, with greenhouse gas emissions dominating the discourse by business leaders and heads of state. However, the United Nations (UN) Interg...

13 Oct 2021

WEF’s head of nature and biodiversity: we are using public funds to destroy public goods

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Emerging economies should build back greener

...renewable energy much less expensive. Countries in or near the tropics are also disproportionately affected by the floods, droughts, and hurricanes associated with climate change, and by the warming t...

29 Jul 2020

Emerging economies should build back greener

News / Waste

Thai gold mine set to reopen even as locals reel from heavy metal poisoning

Standing in the house where she has lived since she was born 45 years ago, Premsinee Suntornthammathat points to the temple where her grandparents took her to pray as a child. During festivals, hundre...

12 May 2022

Thai gold mine set to reopen even as locals reel from heavy metal poisoning

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Amid the Covid-19 crisis, what does a determined path to the SDGs look like?

...renewable energy sector than in fossil fuel industries. Many countries in our region are expanding social protection systems as part of their Covid-19 recovery to go beyond a temporary patch and inclu...

27 Jul 2020

Amid the Covid-19 crisis, what does a determined path to the SDGs look like?

News / Energy

Big energy firms driving coal expansion in the Philippines

...renewable energy plants still continue to depend on subsidies from consumers and government mandates like the Renewable Portfolio Standards,” Zaldarriaga told Eco-Business. The Renewable Portfolio Sta...

27 Nov 2019

Big energy firms driving coal expansion in the Philippines

Podcasts / Green Buildings

Building retrofits: the underrated weapon in the fight to decarbonise cities

...renewable power. “ There is a growing trend of upgrading buildings to a high environmental standard rather than tearing them down and building new ones. Vinod Jethani, Asia Pacific business developm...

6 Jun 2022

Building retrofits: the underrated weapon in the fight to decarbonise cities

Press Releases / blueleaf energy

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

...renewables in its energy supply, buy in more green power, and offset unavoidable carbon emissions. Everyone has a role to play in contributing to climate action, and we see it as our responsibility as...

8 Jan 2020

Blueleaf energy signs Solar PPA with Bosch Malaysia

News / Carbon & Climate

Can Indonesia build a ‘green’ capital in a biodiversity hotspot?

...renewable energy, and efficient water use – could be utilised in Indonesia. The more important lesson might be that small changes can have big impacts too.“China is now realising that you do not have ...

8 Jun 2020

Can Indonesia build a ‘green’ capital in a biodiversity hotspot?

News / Energy

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

...renewable energy as part of both the response to, and recovery from, the coronavirus pandemic. The International Renewable Energy Agency and African Union Commission agreed last week to cooperate on p...

21 Apr 2020

Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poor

indonesian ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 2012

News / Energy

Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at residential area

...renewable energy, which includes nuclear energy. “This case is a bad precedent for the government and Batan, who have failed to protect public health from the dangers of radioactive waste,” Hindun Mul...

21 Feb 2020

Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at residential area

News / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's dependence on fossil fuel subsidies 'like crack cocaine’

...renewables. Dr Jay Mariyappan, head of new energy at Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas, said at the summit that the company would need to move further into renewables if the 46 year-old firm "wante...

5 Nov 2019

Southeast Asia's dependence on fossil fuel subsidies 'like crack cocaine’

News / Policy & Finance

Biden presidency sets stage for wider global advances on climate policy

...renewable sources by 2035, and having net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, in line with new pledges by nations from Japan to South Korea. Finance for the vulnerable? Tina Stege, climate env...

18 Jan 2021

Biden presidency sets stage for wider global advances on climate policy

News / Energy

Q&A with Shell: 'Most things we did were the right things at the right time'

...Renewable Energy Agency meeting in Abu Dhabi. As political and economic tides shift, pressure on Shell—from shareholders, evolving new technologies, and climate-aware consumers—to reinvent itself is m...

26 Feb 2020

Q&A with Shell: 'Most things we did were the right things at the right time'

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Unleashing the climate market

Progress against climate change has long crept at a snail’s pace, and the costs of inaction are increasingly clear to see. Hardly a week goes by without a natural disaster or an extreme weather event...

16 Mar 2021

Unleashing the climate market

News / Energy

China can phase out coal power in line with Paris Agreement, report finds

...renewables and natural gas substituting for coal, and that technical advances have reduced costs issues associated with renewables. Previously research has predicted that renewables and nuclear power...

6 Feb 2020

China can phase out coal power in line with Paris Agreement, report finds

News / Carbon & Climate

Could sediment plumes from deep-sea mining pollute vast swaths of the ocean?

...renewable energy sources, and that deep-sea mining was actually far less destructive than terrestrial mining. However, according to a recent report by MiningWatch Canada and The Ocean Foundation, reso...

24 Jul 2020

Could sediment plumes from deep-sea mining pollute vast swaths of the ocean?

Opinion / Cities

The Covid city

...renewable alternatives. Around the world, it is not so much densely populated cities as overcrowded, marginalised neighborhoods that are struggling to contain the spread of Covid-19. Socioeconomic fa...

9 Sep 2020

The Covid city

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