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Is the future of renewable energy in Asia to share it?

...renewable energy industry go borderless? If Asia could build an interconnected, diversified energy grid, renewable resource-rich locations could be linked to high energy demand centres. The wide geogr...

11 Sep 2019

Is the future of renewable energy in Asia to share it?

News / Corporate Responsibility

11 brands called out for greenwashing in 2021

...renewables [click to enlarge]. Image: Ketan Joshi Norway's state-owned oil major Equinor escapes the scrutiny of more reviled rivals such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron because of its widely public...

7 Dec 2021

11 brands called out for greenwashing in 2021

News / Carbon & Climate

In East Asian first, South Korea announces ambitions to reach net zero by 2050

...renewable energy. “Reaching net-zero carbon emissions is very ambitious in a highly industrialised country where climate change has never been high on the political agenda. That the ruling party makes...

17 Mar 2020

In East Asian first, South Korea announces ambitions to reach net zero by 2050

The IKEA catalogue. Customers are starting to complain about the unsolicited mass-mailing of the paper catalogues. Image: supplied by anonymous customer

News / Waste

In the digital age, why is sustainability pioneer IKEA still mass-mailing customers printed catalogues?

...renewable energy in their operations, optimising our transport and distribution networks, using uncoated and semi-coated paper and reducing the number of pages," said Schuler. Schuler did not provide ...

29 Feb 2020

In the digital age, why is sustainability pioneer IKEA still mass-mailing customers printed catalogues?

News / Energy

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

...renewable energy sector”. India imports 8,000-10,000 megawatts of solar modules each year, of which close to 90 per cent is from China. Solar cells and modules are currently exempt from basic customs ...

29 Jul 2020

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

News / Energy

UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29 per cent over the past decade

...renewables and 20 per cent from wind alone. There were 83 days in 2019 when the UK went without coal power, including a record 18-day stretch in May. Almost all of the UK’s remaining coal power plants...

5 Mar 2020

UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29 per cent over the past decade

Opinion / Energy

Global renewable energy investment is slowing down. Should we worry?

...renewable energy around the world is entering a new phase that will require governments and the private sector to re-think the way they develop projects. For the last decade, renewable energy such as ...

14 Aug 2019

Global renewable energy investment is slowing down. Should we worry?

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: what are green bonds?

What are green bonds? Green bonds are used by governments, banks, municipalities or corporations to raise cash for new or existing projects that are meant to have positive environmental and climate im...

22 Mar 2021

Explainer: what are green bonds?

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘End it like Beckham’: Campaigners slam AIA, life insurer and football sponsor, for coal investments

...renewables and investing in green bonds. The firm is evaluating its stance on remaining coal-related investments. In 2018, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined how sw...

26 Nov 2020

‘End it like Beckham’: Campaigners slam AIA, life insurer and football sponsor, for coal investments

A modern road skirts the Royal Belum Rainforest in Perak, Malaysia.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Big builders’ plans threaten to wreck forest survival

...renewable energy to halt global heating: the climate emergency also requires nations to halt the destruction of, and restore, the world’s great forests. But much of the promised investment will be dev...

26 Nov 2020

Big builders’ plans threaten to wreck forest survival

A face mask hangs on a tree branch in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

World leaders urged to learn from pandemic in adapting to climate change

...renewable energy, they said. "Dealing with climate change can be a growth story," said Stiglitz, adding that adaptation efforts would be "crucial" as the world needs to use all the tools at its dispos...

25 Jan 2021

World leaders urged to learn from pandemic in adapting to climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Deforestation of Cambodian wildlife sanctuary linked to crony mining operation

The early onset of Cambodia’s wet season had seen the rain fall thick over Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, turning freshly cut paths through the forest into a near-impassible slick of churned-up mud. Bu...

2 Jun 2022

Deforestation of Cambodian wildlife sanctuary linked to crony mining operation

News / Corporate Responsibility

Dire prospects await corporate climate-wreckers in 2030—study

...renewables that has been joined by over 200 companies globally, including Apple, DBS, Decathlon, Dell, Facebook and H&M, is only the latest example of corporate climate initiatives. But in climate...

25 Feb 2020

Dire prospects await corporate climate-wreckers in 2030—study

News / Policy & Finance

China’s economy is recovering quickly, as are its carbon emissions

...renewable power generation to the grid, is set to receive 180 billion yuan in investment. CCID Consulting, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, calculates 2020 investme...

13 Aug 2020

China’s economy is recovering quickly, as are its carbon emissions

News / Energy

Southeast Asian conglomerates to pump US$30 million into renewable projects in Myanmar

...renewables. It has more than US$1 billion of invested and committed renewable and thermal energy projects in the Philippines and the region.

16 Oct 2019

Southeast Asian conglomerates to pump US$30 million into renewable projects in Myanmar

Opinion / Energy

China faces 4 big risks if it continues building more coal plants

...renewable energy curtailment (more of the renewable power generated is actually being dispatched to meet electricity demand). 2. Health and air pollution costs China’s deployment of coal has dangerous...

3 Dec 2019

China faces 4 big risks if it continues building more coal plants

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A green reboot after the pandemic

...renewable energy technologies, most of which are now globally available and already cheaper than fossil fuels in many cases. With the recent oil-price plunge, perverse fossil-fuel subsidies can and sh...

25 Mar 2020

A green reboot after the pandemic

Urban farming on the rooftop of a Hong Kong building

News / Cities

Governments urged to invest more in green cities to beat coronavirus slump

From planting more trees to saving on energy use in old buildings, governments should look at greening their cities to create jobs and spur growth as they seek to revive economies hit hard by the coro...

17 Sep 2020

Governments urged to invest more in green cities to beat coronavirus slump

Malangas Zamboaga, Sibugay PNOC Coal mine

News / Energy

Additional coal supply in Covid-era Philippines will increase electricity costs for consumers, experts say

...renewable energy. Coal is the most polluting of fossil fuels. Arances said at virtual press conference on Tuesday (21 July) that existing deals between coal power producers and utilities that distribu...

21 Jul 2020

Additional coal supply in Covid-era Philippines will increase electricity costs for consumers, experts say

News / Energy

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

...renewables' wildly fluctuating power production, said Luu Hoang Ha, partner at Vietnam International Law Firm (VILAF). Vietnam’s minister of industry and trade, Tran Tuan Anh, last year conceded he ha...

23 Mar 2020

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

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