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7 ways to speed up Southeast Asia's switch to renewable energy

...Renewables and high-efficiency coal, followed by gas, lead the charge for new power generation to 2040. A transition to more sustainable energy sources holds multiple benefits, says the International ...

3 Oct 2018

7 ways to speed up Southeast Asia's switch to renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

Work to make the world a better place: 5 things you need to know about ‘green jobs’

Imagine a world in which practically everyone works in jobs that are helping to transform the global economy, and bring about a world where business can thrive and the needs of the most vulnerable peo...

29 Apr 2019

Work to make the world a better place: 5 things you need to know about ‘green jobs’

News / Energy

An industrial port in Singapore powered by solar—a model for other power-hungry industries?

...renewables could also be a model for other heavy industries looking to reduce their carbon footprint while saving electricity costs. The outcome of a 25-year lease agreement, the facility, other than ...

9 Dec 2019

An industrial port in Singapore powered by solar—a model for other power-hungry industries?

News / Energy

China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

China’s CO2 emissions have surged back from the coronavirus lockdown, rising by 4-5 per cent year-on-year in May, analysis of new government data shows. Emissions fell an estimated 25 per cent in the ...

30 Jun 2020

China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May

News / Policy & Finance

Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise

Despite promising a decade ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the world's leading economies more than doubled subsidies to coal-fired power plants over three years, putting climate goals at risk,...

25 Jun 2019

Despite climate pledges, G20 coal subsidies rise

News / Food & Agriculture

Coronavirus weakens defences against Indonesian forest fires as severe haze risk deemed 'moderate'

The risk of severe forest fires in Indonesia that choke much of Southeast Asia annually with toxic "haze" smoke is believed to be moderate this year, with wetter weather reducing the threat of one of ...

29 Jun 2020

Coronavirus weakens defences against Indonesian forest fires as severe haze risk deemed 'moderate'

News / Policy & Finance

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

The forced shutdown of Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN’s radio and television operations threatens not only press freedom, but is a blow to environmental journalism in a country where issues such as mi...

11 May 2020

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

News / Carbon & Climate

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy

Plaintiffs in five European nations and the United States filed an unprecedented suit Monday, 4 March, in the European General Court in Luxembourg against the European Union. They charge that the EU’s...

12 Mar 2019

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy

UOB Bank, Singapore's third largest lender

News / Policy & Finance

UOB is Singapore's third bank to quit coal power lending in a month

Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) is to stop funding coal power projects in response to growing concern over the role finance groups play in lending to energy sources linked to climate change. Th...

10 May 2019

UOB is Singapore's third bank to quit coal power lending in a month

Sagittarius Mines, Inc's Tampakan mining operation

News / Corporate Responsibility

Officials quash plan to develop Philippines’ biggest copper mine

Officials in the southern Philippines have canceled a $5.9 billion project to exploit Southeast Asia’s largest known undeveloped copper and gold reserves, but have left open the possibility of the ven...

31 Aug 2020

Officials quash plan to develop Philippines’ biggest copper mine

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Overcoming the ideology of climate inaction

Three years ago, the United States achieved a grim milestone: its first climate refugees. With rising sea levels quickly engulfing the small town of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, the Biloxi-Chitim...

26 Feb 2019

Overcoming the ideology of climate inaction

News / Policy & Finance

OCBC is now coal-free: Singapore bank drops out of final coal project

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), Southeast Asia's second largest bank, has dropped out of the last coal financing project that it is involved in, Eco-Business can reveal. The move away from...

1 Nov 2019

OCBC is now coal-free: Singapore bank drops out of final coal project

News / Energy

Hong Kong power giant CLP quits coal

...renewables in the region.” “The market for new coal power plants is shrinking rapidly. A few years ago, there were 120 gigawatts of proposed coal power in the pipeline. That pipeline has halved and ev...

19 Dec 2019

Hong Kong power giant CLP quits coal

News / Carbon & Climate

COP25: ‘Signals of hope’ multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN chief Guterres

“My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways fr...

2 Dec 2019

COP25: ‘Signals of hope’ multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN chief Guterres

News / Energy

Pacific island countries work together for a sustainable energy future

Island countries in the Pacific face very specific challenges when it comes to energy security. With a limited supply of domestic fossil fuels, they have historically depended on imported fuels like d...

25 Sep 2018

Pacific island countries work together for a sustainable energy future

News / Carbon & Climate

Youth group says no to coal-fired power plants in Philippines island province

The Philippines took another step towards a greener future when the local officials of Negros Occidental, a province in the Visayan region, issued an executive order on March 6 declaring the province ...

19 Mar 2019

Youth group says no to coal-fired power plants in Philippines island province

Opinion / Waste

There’s a looming waste crisis from Australia’s solar energy boom

As Australians seek to control rising energy costs and tackle the damaging impacts of climate change, rooftop solar has boomed. To manage the variability of rooftop solar—broadly, the “no power at nig...

17 Jun 2019

There’s a looming waste crisis from Australia’s solar energy boom

News / Waste

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

Local laws are not enough to protect the Philippines from foreign waste dumping, and regulatory loopholes also persist in Thailand and Malaysia, two of Southeast Asia’s top plastic waste importing cou...

11 Mar 2020

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

News / Waste

Indonesia plans to solve its waste crisis by burning trash for electricity

...renewables’ share of the overall energy mix in favor of more coal-fired electricity. Widodo recently also signaled a major shift in energy policy, reportedly saying he wants to “start reducing the use...

24 Jul 2019

Indonesia plans to solve its waste crisis by burning trash for electricity

Michael Liebreich, chairman and cofounder of London-based sustainable development advisory services firm Liebreich Associates

News / Carbon & Climate

The world has 'two business cycles' left to meet Paris goals

...renewables,” he continued. “ If your portfolio needs to be very different in 2030, you need to start the process of changing it this afternoon, not in 2028. Michael Liebreich, chairman and chief exec...

3 Jul 2019

The world has 'two business cycles' left to meet Paris goals

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