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Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

South Korea’s largest state-owned electric power distribution company and government banks will invest in a proposed coal power venture in Indonesia after years of deliberation, contradicting the ruli...

30 Jun 2020

The haze returned with a vengeance this year. Dry weather, slash and burn farming, flicked cigarettes and neglected cooking pans have all been fingered for the air pollution from burning peatlands tha...

30 Oct 2019

VietJet's promotion is offering tourists opportunities to "fly green with Vietjet". Image: VietJet

A sales promotion for low-cost Vietnamese airline VietJet has been called out for greenwashing. The budget carrier's "50% discount special promotion" is appealing to earth-conscious customers to fly w...

26 Feb 2020

The Philippines has shown the first signs of a shift away from coal financing, but industry observers said the pace is woefully slow and unlikely to pick up in the foreseeable future. Last month, the...

20 May 2020

Many wealthy nations are letting the world's younger generations down by failing to curb planet-warming emissions, a UN-backed report said on Wednesday, warning climate change posed an urgent threat t...

20 Feb 2020

I would never belittle the suffering in the Asian nations and western democracies that have been at the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of people have unnecessarily lost their lives. ...

9 Apr 2020

MPA launches Singapore’s first Maritime Sustainability Reporting guide

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), together with its partners—Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS), Institute of Singapore Chartered Account...

23 Aug 2019

Omicron dragging out the pandemic. A mental health crisis. Russia ratting nukes at Ukraine. Biblical floods in Malaysia. An oil spill in Thailand. The culling of Hong Kong’s hamsters. The year 2022 ma...

2 Feb 2022

Unknown to many, sand is the world’s most mined material, surpassing fossil fuels, metals and precious minerals by huge margins. While its environmental and social impacts are aplenty, discussions sur...

23 Mar 2022

Competition for funding among companies trying to do good by doing everything from harvesting rainwater to making prosthetic limbs can be fierce. Taking part in international contests that reward the ...

13 May 2019

Vietnam’s government faces crucial choices as it draws up a new national energy plan for 2021-2030. Due to be published this summer, the Power Development Plan 8 will provide a vision for power supply...

22 Jul 2020

The Pacific region has a stunning level of fragility related to fossil fuel dependency and world-record high electricity costs. In many Pacific states, particularly small ones, you cannot escape a ...

18 Feb 2020

Malaysia's major banks are bucking a global trend towards the decarbonisation of the finance industry by continuing to finance new coal-fired power projects in Southeast Asia, a new report has found. ...

17 Feb 2020

...equities. To be considered as such, they have to be certified, for a fee, by the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) — chaired until his candidacy by Ma’ruf Amin, Widodo’s running mate. “ The regulatio...

17 Apr 2019

RE companies, CSOs, priests, public officials, and scientists to meet at “Road to 100% RE” – Renewable Energy Congress in Cebu, Philippines

Climate change, renewable energy, and just transition are three interlinked thematic issues to be tackled in this year’s Renewable Energy Congress and Exhibit that will take place at Waterfront ...

18 Sep 2019

European Union member states and the European Parliament are soon expected to adopt a so-called “taxonomy” for classifying green investments, after reaching agreement last month on a list of “sustaina...

3 Feb 2020

Two Southeast Asian business conglomerates have teamed up to invest at least US$30 million in renewable energy projects in Myanmar, which has one the region's lowest rates of access to grid electricit...

16 Oct 2019

The link between businesses, and the task of protecting the eight million species of plants and animals estimated to share the Earth with humans, is not the most obvious. But fixing supply chains and ...

24 Jan 2020

At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, countries set goals that require halving carbon emissions by 2030. In a new piece in Nature, Professor Harald Winkler, as part of an inte...

16 Mar 2020

When former banker Ivy Huq Russell struggled to raise funds for her business - an app designed to empower women in Bangladesh by sharing expert health advice - it was a female investor who came to her...

8 Mar 2019

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