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A solar grid is shown in this undated handout photo via UN Global Climate Action Awards

News / Energy

'Astro-stays' bring tourists and solar power to Himalayan villages

An Indian social business that leads Himalayan treks to set up solar micro-grids in remote mountain villages plans to expand its clean-energy work to other countries facing similar challenges, after w...

3 Nov 2020

'Astro-stays' bring tourists and solar power to Himalayan villages

News / Energy

Chinese cities can undercut grid with solar power, report finds

...renewables. Zhang Shuwei, chair and chief energy economist at the Draworld Environmental Research Centre, thinks that’s no reason for the grid to decline to take renewable power. Renewables were alway...

17 Oct 2019

Chinese cities can undercut grid with solar power, report finds

Filipino commuters during Covid. Image: Commuters of Metro Manila

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

How can the Philippines make a green recovery in the Covid era?

The Philippines is suffering its first recession since 1981, with a record slump in the second quarter, as strict lockdown measures have ravaged businesses and put millions out of work. The country st...

25 Aug 2020

How can the Philippines make a green recovery in the Covid era?

News / Carbon & Climate

World can avoid catastrophic global warming with climate solutions in hand today—study

...renewables company Sindicatum, said: "Project Drawdown is absolutely right. It is a no-brainer. We know exactly what to do, but we are just not doing it." The three big forces obstructing climate acti...

5 Mar 2020

World can avoid catastrophic global warming with climate solutions in hand today—study

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

Press Releases / JinkoSolar

JinkoSolar confirmed as most bankable PV module supplier for five-year period 2015-2020

JinkoSolar has been confirmed as the most bankable photovoltaic (PV) module supplier to the solar industry for the five year period covering 2015 to 2020, according to the second quarter (Q2) 2020 rel...

15 Jun 2020

JinkoSolar confirmed as most bankable PV module supplier for five-year period 2015-2020

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...renewables to 20 per cent by 2030. But with current policies, the country is poised to remain heavily reliant on climate-wrecking coal. The country has also been slammed for heavily investing in highl...

17 Mar 2020

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

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...renewables. South Korea and Japan are totally isolated in terms of grid connection, but if we see the distance between them and their neighbours, it isn’t too far,” said Mika Ohbayashi, director of th...

11 Sep 2019

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

News / Energy

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

In early July 2020, Raj Kumar Singh, India’s minister of power, said that state-owned companies would no longer import solar energy equipment from China. In addition, a mix of tariff and non-tariff ba...

29 Jul 2020

Costlier solar power a fallout of India-China border clash

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

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?

IKEA, the homeware giant as famous for its Scandinavian devotion to sustainability as for flat-packed furniture and Swedish meatballs, has been receiving complaints from consumers in Southeast Asia ab...

29 Feb 2020

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

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 / 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

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the world what it is like to go through a dangerous emergency of the kind that could occur if climate change accelerates - and offers lessons on how to respond, the hea...

25 Jan 2021

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

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

Forest survival in the world’s great conservation targets − the Amazon, the Congo and Southeast Asia, for example − is at risk from not just ranchers, loggers and illegal foresters: it’s also under as...

26 Nov 2020

Big builders’ plans threaten to wreck forest survival

News / Policy & Finance

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

Macroeconomic data for the first half of 2020, published on 16 July by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, revealed a striking recovery. Second quarter GDP growth turned positive, with figures for ...

13 Aug 2020

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

Opinion / Energy

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

Investment in 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 e...

14 Aug 2019

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

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

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

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