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Heat pumps could help cut China’s building CO2 emissions by 75%, says IEA

...2025 and 2050, meeting one-fifth of heat demand in 2050. This would contribute to “drastically” reducing carbon emissions, which would fall by 95 per cent overall from more than 110MtCO2 to 10MtCO2. ...

26 Aug 2024

Heat pumps could help cut China’s building CO2 emissions by 75%, says IEA

News / Policy & Finance

Analysis: Why the US$300 billion climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems

...2025 by the Paris Agreement. Beyond the central goal of US$300 billion, the NCQG also includes a much broader “aspirational” target of US$1.3 trillion a year in climate finance by 2035. However, this...

5 Dec 2024

Analysis: Why the US$300 billion climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems

News / Policy & Finance

COP29: Health-focused climate action in the spotlight

...2025. Health campaigners at the summit want countries to view emission targets through a health lens, including by tackling air pollution, and pledge to fund more programmes for health adaptation and ...

22 Nov 2024

COP29: Health-focused climate action in the spotlight

News / Waste

Malaysia to begin implementing mandatory EPR for manufacturing sector within five years

...2025. In the meantime, the ministry urges manufacturers to consider how they will prepare themselves for the eventual implementation of policies under the framework. “You have to start thinking about ...

26 Sep 2024

Malaysia to begin implementing mandatory EPR for manufacturing sector within five years

News / Food & Agriculture

COP29 must offer lifeline for ‘blue foods’ amid climate storm

...2025. It is also a chance to include blue foods in the new targets being discussed for the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation. Last month, guidelines aimed at supporting governments to includ...

22 Nov 2024

COP29 must offer lifeline for ‘blue foods’ amid climate storm

News / Manufacturing

Global shoe brands tied to toxic tannery conditions in India

...2025 had identified unspecified non-conformities and that steps were being taken to address these issues. It declined to share the results of these audits. Local activists remain sceptical. “Audits ar...

24 Jul 2025

Global shoe brands tied to toxic tannery conditions in India

Opinion / Transport

Put a price on shipping emissions

...2025. In the negotiations, SIDS must stand together to ensure that the levy is sufficiently high, and that the revenues will be distributed equitably. Already, a growing majority of countries want to ...

25 Sep 2024

Put a price on shipping emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

State responsibility for climate must include impacts caused by armed conflict, Palestine tells top court

...2025, and although the decision is not legally-binding, it could potentially be a key reference for climate change-driven litigation around the world.

17 Dec 2024

State responsibility for climate must include impacts caused by armed conflict, Palestine tells top court

News / Energy

Q&A: How Southeast Asia can seize the renewable energy opportunity

...2025, Vietnam revised its Power Development Plan 8, greatly increasing solar and onshore wind in their mix because they’re still experiencing huge electricity demand growth due to high economic growth...

5 May 2025

Q&A: How Southeast Asia can seize the renewable energy opportunity

News / Policy & Finance

Opportunities in the Gulf: Can a strategic shift in capital from the Middle East to Asia help the region meet ESG funding gaps?

...2025 respectively – demonstrating a clear focus on developing ESG capital markets. In the UAE, financial institutions have pledged 1 billion dirham (US$270 million) in sustainable finance by 2030, acc...

27 Aug 2025

Opportunities in the Gulf: Can a strategic shift in capital from the Middle East to Asia help the region meet ESG funding gaps?

News / Policy & Finance

‘Water will be critical’, says UOB, first Singapore bank to publish TNFD-aligned report

...2025. They include real estate giant CDL – which produced its first TNFD report last March – as well as agri-business Olam Agri. Tracking nature financing Lim said that he was “pleasantly surprised” t...

22 Mar 2025

‘Water will be critical’, says UOB, first Singapore bank to publish TNFD-aligned report

Singapore central business district on a stormy day

News / Carbon & Climate

Two-thirds of Singapore firms are not confident of meeting net zero goals: report

...2025 and 2027, respectively, under the city-state's new rules. "The regulatory environment has made sustainability reporting and assurance an essential component of corporate disclosures. It is clear ...

3 Jul 2024

Two-thirds of Singapore firms are not confident of meeting net zero goals: report

News / Energy

Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’

...2025 calls for the “large-scale development” of its sand-plus-solar anti-desertification method, a concept Beijing started promoting around two years ago. The concept centres around managing arid are...

13 Dec 2024

Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’

News / Water

Making water-related disclosures – a growing priority for Asia's listed companies

...2025. However, where mandatory water disclosure requirements do exist in Southeast Asia, including in Malaysia, regulations only cover water usage and pollution within a company’s direct operations, ...

19 Mar 2025

News / Policy & Finance

No mention of fossil fuel phase-out in Azerbaijan's COP29 informal agenda

...2025. Azerbaijan is due to announce its own contributions to the fund, which was not detailed in the letter. Apart from the fund, Babayev, in the letter, said he is spearheading a second climate fin...

20 Sep 2024

No mention of fossil fuel phase-out in Azerbaijan's COP29 informal agenda

News / Carbon & Climate

UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals

In the 15th edition of its annual “emissions gap” report, the UNEP calls for “no more hot air” as countries approach the February 2025 deadline to submit their next nationally determined contributions...

29 Oct 2024

UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals

News / Food & Agriculture

From farmers to importers: how Filipino rice growing went wrong

...2025, surpassing major importers such as China, Indonesia, the European Union, Nigeria and Iraq. But farmers' groups said the high imports and a lack of disaster aid had displaced farmers, trapped ric...

13 Nov 2024

From farmers to importers: how Filipino rice growing went wrong

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Will COP29 reach consensus on more funds for climate finance?

...2025. The second major climate finance window, which would be in focus at Baku, is the L&D Fund. The fund is the outcome of the COP27 decision to “establish new funding arrangements for assisting...

11 Nov 2024

Will COP29 reach consensus on more funds for climate finance?

Opinion / Waste

Beating plastic pollution in three steps

...2025. With this foresight, how can plastic pollution be minimised, or at best, eliminated in Asean? There are three practical ways. First, by strengthening ties among Asean Member States by solidifyin...

3 May 2024

Beating plastic pollution in three steps

News / Energy

Malaysian court shuts down hydroelectric dam project on Orang Asal land

...2025. The court’s decision, while seen as a triumph, is also viewed as a crucial test for the broader implications of Indigenous land rights in Malaysia. Cyren Wong, an ethnologist familiar with the c...

14 Sep 2024

Malaysian court shuts down hydroelectric dam project on Orang Asal land

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