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...renewables targets. In the year leading up to the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, DeSmog revealed at least 195 influencers posted Instagram content sponsored by 10 of the world’s biggest livesto...

17 Jun 2026

Power without borders: Charting Asean's path to an interconnected energy future

...renewables-rich Asean countries can lead collaborative dialogues to advance the APG vision. Factoring in the socio-economic benefits of grid interconnectors (such as jobs created, access to clean ene...

5 Jun 2025

A man shelters from the midday heat on the path at Robertson Quay, Singapore

Singapore’s climate swung from some of its wettest months on record to its hottest in 2025, reflecting global findings that the Earth’s climate is more unbalanced than ever observed. The city state re...

24 Mar 2026

...renewables advisory firm. Image: Camillus Yang Camillus Yang: From Shell to Sunseap, then a renewables entrepreneur Camillus Yang took an 80 per cent pay cut when he left Shell for Sunseap, a Singapo...

29 Nov 2024

Alistair Monument, global director of programme, ISEAL

Alistair Monument, the Asia Pacific conservation impact director for WWF International, has joined ISEAL as global director of programmes. He will be based in Hong Kong. ISEAL is a United Kingdom-head...

15 Sep 2025

Tourists wearing masks in Singapore during COVID 19 pandemic

Asia’s climate challenge is being felt in ways that are deeply human: unsafe air, extreme heat, fragile housing, disrupted livelihoods, and growing pressure on health systems. From heat stress among o...

21 Apr 2026

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

...Renewables lag coal While the Philippines has made efforts to expand its clean energy sector, coal continues to outpace renewables. The share of electricity generated by coal rose to 61.9 per cent in ...

26 Dec 2024

...renewables in the energy mix is declining, a trend the UN says is “fundamentally out of step” with the scale of climate risk facing Asia-Pacific. These environmental setbacks are compounding the risin...

19 Feb 2026

The most recently certified B Corp in Singapore was Global Green Connect, a sustainability consultancy led by Christina Lee.

...Renewables, leading Renewable Energy Hydro solutions teams across the region. Over his career, he has also worked for GE's plastics and chemicals businesses. He began his career as a lawyer.

16 Jun 2025

Pacific Forum charts bold path for sustainable and resilient future

The Ninth Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (PFSD), co-hosted by ESCAP and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), in partnership with the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company...

9 Nov 2025

...renewables and bioenergy with CCS or co-firing plants connected to CCS are expected to reach 43 per cent and 8 per cent respectively by 2050. Projection of biomass use in Indonesia's power generatio...

30 May 2025

Climate adaptation in Southeast Asia must be treated as an economy-wide investment opportunity rather than a cost, as the region faces a widening gap between the money needed to prepare for climate im...

29 Jul 2026

small modular reactor under construction in Argentina

The country's first nuclear facility may not have to undergo a competitive bidding process to attract private investment, according to a draft circular released by the Philippine Department of Energy ...

4 Jul 2025

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Power outages during elections have long been linked to fraud, vote tampering and threats to the safety of poll workers. As the 12 May date for the Philippines midterm elections nears, local climate c...

5 May 2025

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean's) taxonomy for sustainable finance must actively educate its members on its multi-tiered classification system even as it introduces technical crite...

13 Feb 2026

Vivian Balakrishnan and Lawrence Wong_Singapore_S Rajaratnam Lecture

...renewables transition across Southeast Asia or at least change the dynamics of how supply chains for clean technology are shaped. The Asean power grid has been decades in the making, though headway h...

22 Apr 2025

Asean’s dependence on food and feed imports has been well studied but it has taken the Iran crisis, and previously the Ukraine War, to highlight Southeast Asia’s reliance on imports of inputs from out...

11 May 2026

The study, published in Nature Food, finds that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from agricultural machinery have increased approximately seven-fold in the country since 1985. Using government statistic...

26 May 2025

Emissions from building sector stopped rising for the first time since 2020: UN

...Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge. Finally, all governments, financial institutions and businesses need to work together to double global building energy efficiency investment from U...

25 Mar 2025

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