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Traffic congestion in Asia’s burgeoning metropolises is a sign of rapid economic growth. But it carries with it harmful greenhouse emissions that warm the planet and toxic pollutants that affect healt...

26 Sep 2024

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto G20

Just weeks into his presidency, Indonesia’s new leader, Prabowo Subianto, pledged to retire all coal power plants in the country within 15 years. Indonesia will be building over 75 gigawatts of renewa...

10 Dec 2024

That is according to the latest adaptation gap report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which calculates that developing nations will need more than US$310 billion annually between now and 203...

4 Nov 2025

Indonesia’s new capital city Nusantara can pioneer sustainable and clean urban construction in Southeast Asia

Indonesia can contribute towards its sustainability ambitions for its new capital city from the outset by utilising emissions-free construction equipment in its development. With global attention, thi...

26 Jun 2024

Basahin sa tagalog Coal power isn't just fueling climate change – it's igniting a global health crisis. As Southeast Asian nations struggle to shake off their dependence on fossil fuels, tiny but dead...

15 Oct 2024

The new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures and commercial data, shows rapid electricity demand growth and weak rains boosted demand for coal power in 2023, while the rebound from zer...

1 Mar 2024

Clean-energy sectors contributed a record 15.4 trillion yuan (US$2.1 trillion) in 2025, some 11.4 per cent of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) – comparable to the economies of Brazil or Canada. Th...

9 Feb 2026

Shark finning bans have had little effect on protecting global shark populations, according to new research. However, shark mortality decreased in pelagic fisheries, which suggests that regulatory mea...

25 Jan 2024

Refill system for soap in the Philippines

Reuse and refill systems, which are severely underfunded compared to downstream solutions like recycling and recovery, need to be prioritised to end plastic pollution, say experts at a United Nations ...

24 Feb 2025

A mixture of major multinational brands and smaller businesses has signed an open letter to world leaders in the run-up to the COP28 climate talks, calling for a full phase-out of fossil fuels. "Our b...

31 Oct 2023

Solar power plant, Central Thailand, energy transition

The 42nd Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) being held from 24-27 September in Vientiane is the highest policy making body in energy cooperation in the region. It plays a key role in politically...

4 Oct 2024

Energy-hungry data centres may have to go nuclear to meet rising demands for artificial intelligence (AI) if the world wants to keep its word and cut greenhouse-gas emissions, experts say. With AI t...

12 Jul 2024

Like millions worldwide, Southeast Asians have been trying out large language models such as Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral AI - but in their native Bahasa Indonesia or Thai. The result has usually been ...

9 Feb 2024

China has had astonishing success improving its air quality since declaring a “war on pollution” in 2013. From 2014 to 2022, average levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) dropped faster than in an...

18 Jul 2025

Filipino_Imagination_Schools_Philippines

Modernisation in the traditional, orthodox sense intuitively evokes a visual of moving forward, shedding and leaving behind values, cultures and practices of the past to adopt new ones into the future...

16 Sep 2024

On day three of the COP28 UN climate negotiations in Dubai, applause greeted the news that Mexico had signed up to a global commitment to triple renewable power capacity and double energy efficiency b...

18 Dec 2023

Netherlands-based STX Group, which trades globally in products such as renewable energy certificates (RECs), carbon offsets and biofuels, is expanding its Asia Pacific operations to now provide corpor...

17 Jan 2024

Singapore’s much-anticipated list of approved international carbon credits will only accept REDD+ projects from Papua New Guinea if they consider deforestation across entire jurisdictions, as opposed ...

25 Dec 2023

The re-election of an individual who has railed against the "woke" environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement to the world's most powerful political office could make it harder for chief sust...

12 Nov 2024

Tomakomai carbon capture and storage plant in Japan

Transport and storage could prove to be “a major bottleneck” in scaling carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology as a viable decarbonisation solution, a new study found. Led by China,...

17 Oct 2024

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