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The Banten Suralaya coal complex in Banten, Java. The station will use ultra-supercritical technology, and is mainly funded by state utility PLN with financial advice from DBS Bank. Image: Greenpeace

News / Policy & Finance

An Indonesian village held hostage by coal pleads for change

...renewable projects to be unreliable, preferring cheaper coal plants that will pump out power without interruption. Hindun Mulaika, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace, says the current oversup...

5 Feb 2021

An Indonesian village held hostage by coal pleads for change

News / Energy

Vietnam’s golden solar years aren’t over, despite policy changes

...renewable energy, provided the grid infrastructure is in place." New scheme, new players Vietnam’s solar boom started two years ago when the sun-blessed Southeast Asian nation launched its first feed-...

9 Dec 2019

Vietnam’s golden solar years aren’t over, despite policy changes

Children hold a WWF banner to celebrate 55 years of operations for the NGO in Indonesia. Image: WWF-Indonesia/Novie Sartyawan

News / Food & Agriculture

WWF has forest conservation fieldwork permit revoked in Indonesia

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), one of the world’s largest environmental non-government organisations (NGO), has halted much of its forest conservation work in Indonesia after the government can...

26 Nov 2019

WWF has forest conservation fieldwork permit revoked in Indonesia

Builders work together to finish a house.

News / Green Buildings

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

...renewable sources, the company has committed to being 100 per cent powered by renewable energy by 2050. The Dutch firm is aiming to partner other companies in order to create demand for renewable ener...

8 Jul 2019

Collaboration and disruption for a greener construction sector

Opinion / Transport

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

...renewable energy scenario, demand for metals for electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies could exceed reserves for cobalt, lithium and nickel. To ensure the transition to renewables does n...

17 Apr 2019

Electric cars can clean up the mining industry – here’s how

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?

...renewable energy, governments would need millions, even billions, in capital to invest in areas like technology development, solution scaling and new infrastructure. With our current, rigid financial ...

17 Mar 2020

Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?

News / Energy

Natural gas to be ‘substantial part’ of Singapore's energy mix for next 50 years

...Renewable Energy Agency. DNV GL, in its Energy Transition Outlook 2019 report, sees hydrogen forming 2 per cent of the world’s energy mix by 2050. “Certainly, hydrogen has a key role to play in addres...

30 Oct 2019

Natural gas to be ‘substantial part’ of Singapore's energy mix for next 50 years

News / Energy

Asia’s thirsty coal-fired power plants face water scarcity

...renewable energy Renewables edging out coal in South-East Asia Cities must lead the clean energy drive, says report Wei Peng, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering, P...

8 Oct 2019

Asia’s thirsty coal-fired power plants face water scarcity

climate change march in vatican city 2015

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

Eco-Business has raised an important question in asking how the climate crisis can cut through the Covid-19 media storm last week. But this question can be resolved by realising that the two issues s...

1 Apr 2020

Climate change can break the media domination of Covid-19 by recognising their common causes

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Green markets for equitable growth

...renewables quickly and cost-effectively enough to keep the engines of growth running. Fortunately, we already know that this is possible. The key is a global carbon market. “ Today, despite accountin...

18 Nov 2019

Green markets for equitable growth

News / Carbon & Climate

Could China adopt more ‘trees-to-power’ technology?

...renewables such as wind and solar. Cities will only consider requiring CCUS installed at coal-fired power plants after they have reached peak carbon, according to Li. “Most Chinese cities are expected...

15 Apr 2021

Could China adopt more ‘trees-to-power’ technology?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

...renewable alternatives usually take the spotlight, while deforestation (along with forest protection and restoration) has not received nearly as much attention despite being the second largest contrib...

11 Aug 2020

Banks responsible for continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

...renewable energy. A country might use policy levers to regulate deforestation or mandate car emissions standards. Whatever’s left is tackled through offsetting techniques that counteract unavoidable e...

13 Jan 2020

Explainer: What is carbon neutrality, and can it really be achieved?

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever top polluters 2019

News / Waste

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'

...renewable plant-based materials, aiming to use it in all its packaging by next year. Nestlé has a plan to make all of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, while Pepsi has pledged to develop b...

24 Oct 2019

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'

News / Carbon & Climate

China can't wean itself off overseas coal

...renewable energy. While its renewable energy investments have reached US$44 billion in 2017, China has also invested US$35.9 billion in coal operations in 27 countries including Indonesia, Philip...

12 Jun 2019

China can't wean itself off overseas coal

News / Policy & Finance

Rich nations break promise, little climate finance for South Asia

...renewable energy to the mix, it is struggling to phase out coal and decarbonise sectors such as cement, steel making and others. Mobilising private sector finance When it comes to climate response in ...

10 Dec 2020

Rich nations break promise, little climate finance for South Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Advisors propose new system to regulate China’s overseas investments

...renewable energy to passenger transport and livestock farming. The grouping of the project types into positive (green), neutral (yellow) and negative (red) lists for the first time creates a simple ta...

8 Dec 2020

Advisors propose new system to regulate China’s overseas investments

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Islands of climate innovation

...renewable energy. Jamaica’s prime minister, for example, wants his country to generate 50 per cent of its energy from renewables by 2030. Barbados intends to go even further, achieving carbon neutrali...

12 Jun 2019

Islands of climate innovation

Workers on a scaffolding on a construction site in Singapore

News / Green Buildings

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

...renewable energy sources, so we’re struggling to convince people to replace reliance on fossil fuels when it comes to heating their homes and office buildings. This September the United Nations announ...

7 Jan 2020

Tackling embodied carbon is the next step of the green building journey

News / Energy

Energy-short Pakistan moves to power up solar manufacturing

...renewable power and overcome power shortages. A new government budget bill, expected to be approved in parliament within a month, would give renewable energy manufacturers and assemblers in the countr...

31 Jan 2019

Energy-short Pakistan moves to power up solar manufacturing

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