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Game changer: extreme heat stifles women's sports in Pakistan

...power cuts. The long days and nights are affecting her performance. “ Sports teach lifelong values like endurance, teamwork, confidence, overcoming challenges. Bushra Arif, director of physical educa...

21 Jun 2024

Game changer: extreme heat stifles women's sports in Pakistan

News / Energy

In Vietnam, climate arrests spark backlash to green energy plan

...power capacity and sourcing almost half of its electricity from renewables within this decade. One Southeast Asia climate advocate, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions, said ...

20 Oct 2023

In Vietnam, climate arrests spark backlash to green energy plan

News / Carbon & Climate

Can nature and biodiversity find justice in Asia's courts?

...powerful concept," he said. Highlighting his experience interacting with judges from different jurisdictions, Wilson observed that Asia's judges seem to be more culturally disposed to prioritise natu...

16 Jan 2024

Can nature and biodiversity find justice in Asia's courts?

News / Energy

Nigerians benefit from Chinese solar

...power distributor’s bill for what I didn’t consume at the end of month.” Regular power failures in the state mean that many of his colleagues in the welding profession have resorted to taking up less-...

4 Jan 2024

Nigerians benefit from Chinese solar

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer

...power and trust people. I see the leadership development side as complementary to what I do, because if you develop good people, good leaders who are purpose driven and ethical, then you can empower a...

18 Feb 2025

To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer

News / Policy & Finance

Renewable energy certificates, defying criticism, take off in Southeast Asia

...power production already contributes to lowering the grid emissions factor on the local power network, so additional emissions reductions claimed by firms buying RECs, but not using the power, could a...

28 Feb 2024

Renewable energy certificates, defying criticism, take off in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why COP29 should not be ignored

...power in 2003, after his leadership was handed over by his father who ruled for three decades. Azerbaijan has also just emerged from a war with neighbouring Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh ...

29 Oct 2024

Why COP29 should not be ignored

News / Policy & Finance

Use it or lose it: Biden races to spend climate cash

...power. The credits have helped spur more than US$200 billion in private sector investment in electric vehicles and batteries alone, said David Kieve with EDF Action, the political arm of the environme...

2 Oct 2024

Use it or lose it: Biden races to spend climate cash

Opinion / Transport

Are we there yet? Indonesia's huge EV challenge

...power comes from to keep them on the road. Coal-fired power plants make up 43 per cent of Indonesia’s primary energy supply for electricity. The adoption of electric vehicles would not be more environ...

24 Nov 2023

Are we there yet? Indonesia's huge EV challenge

News / Policy & Finance

Why the COP28 deal on fossil fuels will push a ‘just transition’

...power plants? From coal miners to offshore oil rig engineers, the 32 million people who work in the fossil fuel industry face losing their livelihoods over time as the global energy mix turns greener ...

21 Dec 2023

Why the COP28 deal on fossil fuels will push a ‘just transition’

News / Transport

‘It benefits investors, not locals’: Indigenous leaders oppose Nepal cable car project

...power centre for millennia. They vow to protect it from the cable car development, but face an uphill struggle; the project has the backing of local businesses, major political parties and the governm...

5 Jul 2024

‘It benefits investors, not locals’: Indigenous leaders oppose Nepal cable car project

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News / Policy & Finance

Treat low carbon bill as investment pact to tap on cost-competitive deals, Philippine lawmaker urges private sector

Considering the impacts of extreme weather, continued fossil fuel dependency and climate inaction will bring about business interruption, high relocation costs and eventually hurt the private sector i...

23 Aug 2024

Treat low carbon bill as investment pact to tap on cost-competitive deals, Philippine lawmaker urges private sector

News / Carbon & Climate

How Southeast Asian countries are positioning themselves at COP29

...power distributor PLN and oil and gas firm Pertamina. Image: Hannah Fernandez/ Eco-Business “Indonesia always performs hard and soft diplomacy,” Rosa told Eco-Business. “The negotiators do the hard d...

20 Nov 2024

How Southeast Asian countries are positioning themselves at COP29

News / Carbon & Climate

Lawmakers, NGOs decry lack of safeguards in Malaysia’s new carbon capture and storage bill

...powerful corporations and their lobbies,” she said. “There is still time to course correct, if there is the political will to do so. It is better to be safe than sorry.”

10 Mar 2025

Lawmakers, NGOs decry lack of safeguards in Malaysia’s new carbon capture and storage bill

News / Transport

Singapore green jet fuel target ignites regional market interest, but sourcing concerns remain

...powered planes are too far off in the horizon. SAF can help cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent. Addressing a conference on the sidelines of the Singapore airshow, William Walsh, IATA director general...

22 Feb 2024

Singapore green jet fuel target ignites regional market interest, but sourcing concerns remain

News / Carbon & Climate

Artists join with climate activists, scientists to paint a greener future

...power projects in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh, motivating Bangladeshi artists to join international campaigners in calls for GE to back non fossil-fuel energy instead. With scientists and policy exp...

20 Oct 2023

Artists join with climate activists, scientists to paint a greener future

News / Energy

Coal industry body rebrands to 'FutureCoal: The Global Alliance for Sustainable Coal'

...powered aluminium smelter as a green, renewable development. Indonesia's sustainable finance taxonomy is also facing scrutiny for proposing to categorise coal plants that power sustainable industries ...

21 Nov 2023

Coal industry body rebrands to 'FutureCoal: The Global Alliance for Sustainable Coal'

News / Carbon & Climate

Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’

...power generation. This would represent the second year in a row where Chinese emissions growth was well below the average rate over the past decade. The US represents 13 per cent of global emissions a...

20 Nov 2025

Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’

News / Water

Solar power assists nuns secure water supply throughout winter

...ads get blocked with heavy snowfall. Therefore, the local people had to travel three to four kilometres downstream to collect water from Spiti river, often leading them to skip their morning ritual. I...

14 Mar 2024

Solar power assists nuns secure water supply throughout winter

Press Releases / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Asian and Pacific countries at UN forum agree on measures to shape energy transition, address climate crisis

...Power System Connectivity for creating secure, sustainable and affordable power systems. The Road Map also underscores the importance of multilateral power trading to unlock the flexibility ...

28 Oct 2023

Asian and Pacific countries at UN forum agree on measures to shape energy transition, address climate crisis

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