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News / Policy & Finance

Policy inconsistency impeding Indonesia’s green finance drive: experts

...carbonisation plans before investors will cash in on green projects, they said at the Unlocking Capital For Sustainability Indonesia event hosted by Eco-Business. Private cash is important for Indones...

7 Sep 2022

Policy inconsistency impeding Indonesia’s green finance drive: experts

Former APP sustainability chief Aida Greenbury

News / Food & Agriculture

How I got here... forestry sustainability expert, Aida Greenbury

...carbon-rich Indonesian rainforest, breaching the rights of local communities and indigenous groups, and flouting agreements with green groups to end forest destruction, which has irreparably compromis...

17 Jan 2022

How I got here... forestry sustainability expert, Aida Greenbury

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

The era of "global boiling" has arrived, declared United Nations secretary general António Guterres after July broke temperature records and claimed lives in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and ...

16 Aug 2023

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

A car floats down a flood torrent in New South Wales, Australia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Floods are natural, but human decisions make disasters. We need to reflect on the endless cycles of blame

As the Victorian city of Echuca prepared for flooding last week, the council moved rapidly to build a temporary earthen levee as others sandbagged. This kept some homes dry, likely worsened flooding i...

31 Oct 2022

Floods are natural, but human decisions make disasters. We need to reflect on the endless cycles of blame

News / Carbon & Climate

Low Mekong waters make life hard around Cambodia’s smaller lakes

For more than 15 years, Chhoeun Hoeum has been plying the waters of Veal Samnab lake. In recent years, his catch – and income – has grown smaller, falling alongside the water levels of the lake system...

19 May 2022

Low Mekong waters make life hard around Cambodia’s smaller lakes

Golden bitcoin with Chinese yuan banknotes

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Greening the coin

...carbon footprint of a single transaction equalling that of 1.89 million VISA transactions. The vast inefficiency of Bitcoin transactions and the need for a constant, low-cost energy supply has caused ...

2 Aug 2021

Greening the coin

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

The Apatani people of India’s Eastern Himalayas practise a unique form of farming where two crops of rice (mipya and emoh) and one crop of fish (ngihi) are raised together. The wet rice fields are irr...

20 Dec 2022

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

SHANGHAI HONGQIAO SOLAR ROOF INSTALLATION

News / Energy

With coal off the menu, can China export its renewables model?

...carbon emissions, according to Baofeng, when compared to a traditional coal-fired power plant. With China having said that it will stop building coal power plants overseas and will provide strong supp...

12 Nov 2021

With coal off the menu, can China export its renewables model?

News / Carbon & Climate

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

...carbon neutrality. BECCS, or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, also sounds too good to be true. But in its 2018 special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change described carbon ...

15 Apr 2021

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

News / Carbon & Climate

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the growth of coral cities

...carbon backbone and then partner with organisations such as the award-winning Bahamian company Coral Vita, which grows resilient corals and can transplant them onto these engineered reefs. While moder...

11 Nov 2021

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the growth of coral cities

News / Carbon & Climate

New York, Beijing among major cities likely to face new cyclone risk, projections show

A new study shows that hurricanes and tropical cyclones, typically scourges of low-latitude regions, could start drifting across a wider range to hit populous mid-latitude cities like New York, Boston...

18 Jan 2022

New York, Beijing among major cities likely to face new cyclone risk, projections show

Demonstrators in Hanover, Germany protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

News / Energy

Q&A: What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for energy and climate change?

...carbon fuels. The mentality has started to shift. It’s no longer business as usual. We’ll see a move towards renewable, nuclear, and zero-carbon fuels that gives Europe the autonomy it needs." Writing...

7 Mar 2022

Q&A: What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for energy and climate change?

News / Energy

Asia's energy crunch signals volatile path for clean-power transition

...carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. In September China pledged to end overseas coal financing. Coal represents nearly 60 per cent of the country’s electricity mix. China is jostlin...

6 Oct 2021

Asia's energy crunch signals volatile path for clean-power transition

News / Policy & Finance

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate urges Africa to ditch fossil fuels

Extracting more fossil fuels is not the solution to energy poverty in Africa, as it would worsen the "climate crisis" for which Africans are already paying "with their livelihoods and their lives", U...

28 Oct 2022

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate urges Africa to ditch fossil fuels

News / Energy

EU plans may boost Asian nuclear ambitions but progress likely to stutter, say analysts

...carbon emissions being on par with wind energy. South Korea, which gets almost a fifth of its power from nuclear energy, does not recognise it as green while liquefied natural gas was declared as a su...

17 Jan 2022

EU plans may boost Asian nuclear ambitions but progress likely to stutter, say analysts

Press Releases / LYS Energy Group

HG Metal partners with LYS Energy Group to build and operate rooftop solar PV system

...carbon neutrality by integrating such low carbon initiatives and contribute towards Singapore’s goal of lowering carbon emissions by 2030.” Mr. Lionel Steinitz, Founder and Chief Executiv...

29 Jun 2021

HG Metal partners with LYS Energy Group to build and operate rooftop solar PV system

News / Food & Agriculture

What does the future of climate-resilient rice look like?

Although rice is a diet staple for many in Asia, the harvesting of the crop is fraught with many challenges, including decreasing yield productivity due to the effects of climate change and the pressu...

28 Apr 2022

What does the future of climate-resilient rice look like?

News / Cities

Malaysia's election ignores climate crisis as economy dominates

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but also reduces the ability of land to absorb floodwater. Public knowledge of green issues such as the importance of forests and also renewable energy is growing b...

21 Nov 2022

Malaysia's election ignores climate crisis as economy dominates

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

...carbonisation, but they are investing directly in projects. In a sense, they are competing with the private sector, because if everyone is going for the commercially viable, bankable projects, who’s g...

13 Sep 2023

Explainer: Why has blended finance not lived up to its promise?

News / Energy

Why power spot markets are key to China’s new energy system

Against the backdrop of the global energy transition to renewables, China’s energy system is undergoing profound changes. Last year, Xi Jinping’s report to the 20th Party Congress included a proposal ...

12 Sep 2023

Why power spot markets are key to China’s new energy system

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