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Malaysia proposes Asean standard for carbon projects as it launches its first nature-based credits

...powered decarbonisation platform, said discussions around Article 6 of the Paris Agreement need to happen among Asean governments to help set the framework for trading carbon credits between countries...

30 Jul 2024

Malaysia proposes Asean standard for carbon projects as it launches its first nature-based credits

News / Carbon & Climate

Sustainability innovations that made the headlines in 2023

...powered semi truck. Image: Amogy Switching gear from diesel to ammonia: An ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi-truck developed by US-based firm Amogy may be a viable sustainable solution for the heav...

26 Dec 2023

Sustainability innovations that made the headlines in 2023

Opinion / Water

Why India needs to incentivise water reuse

...power plants suggested that interventions such as ash water recirculation and implementing wastewater recycling and reuse can yield a collective average monetary benefit of on average Rs 300 million p...

17 Oct 2024

Why India needs to incentivise water reuse

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

...power capacity by 2030, as established in the Philippines Energy Plan (2020-2040), with the country aiming for solar and wind power to account for 16.5 per cent of its total projected energy generatio...

21 Nov 2023

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

News / Carbon & Climate

Bumpy road ahead as battery fears hit global EV rollout

...power, transport, and other sectors. Yet, commercial mining in these previously reserved areas threatens the livelihoods of local people and the ecosystems. “In the past, the Indian Supreme Court has ...

25 Sep 2024

Bumpy road ahead as battery fears hit global EV rollout

News / Energy

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

...power may wean Europe off Russian natural gas permanently” in coming years. Wind and solar supplied more of the EU’s electricity than any other power source for the first time ever in 2022, according ...

7 Mar 2024

Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?

News / Water

The Salween explained: Asia’s last great undammed river

...power projects have been planned for various stretches of the river for decades, no dams have reached completion along the Salween mainstream. Yunnan provincial authorities halted plans for 13 hydropo...

4 Apr 2024

The Salween explained: Asia’s last great undammed river

News / Policy & Finance

Don't forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged

...power. Farah Kabir, Bangladesh country director, ActionAid Climate-linked disasters tend to exacerbate women's unpaid care work burden, for example, forcing them to walk further to find water. Abou...

9 Apr 2024

Don't forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer

...powerful. It's up to them what they're going to give. For us, the recourse is we need to ramp up pressure. Even a ruling by the International Court of Justice, and it's very clear there in their late...

26 Nov 2025

‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer

News / Cities

Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals

At an International Energy Agency (IEA) summit attended on Tuesday by heads of state and ministers from 27 countries, a total of US$2.2bn was pledged to boost uptake of clean cooking technologies. The...

24 May 2024

Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals

News / Energy

Singapore ‘closely monitoring’ but undecided on nuclear power amid rising regional interest

...power can be produced with a smaller footprint, Nian noted. The city-state is also open to importing nuclear power from its neighbours, though any actual cross-border nuclear power trading appears ext...

23 Oct 2023

Singapore ‘closely monitoring’ but undecided on nuclear power amid rising regional interest

News / Water

What are the environmental costs of AI?

...power and heat - rose 37 per cent from 2021 to 2022. Here's how the growth of AI and tech firms' resource use are raising concerns about water shortages and global warming: How much water are tech gia...

22 Aug 2023

What are the environmental costs of AI?

News / Carbon & Climate

Why renewable energy has the potential to power the Philippines’ future

...power projects in the country,” stated Capongcol, adding that government approval is needed to extend this to hydropower and geothermal energy. Adopting renewable technologies Utilising new technologi...

9 Aug 2023

Why renewable energy has the potential to power the Philippines’ future

News / Energy

Carbon credits for coal power phaseout offer up both money and complexity

...power,” said Dr Joseph Curtin, managing director of the power and climate team at The Rockefeller Foundation, a United States nonprofit. “You’re going to need additional capital from sources such as c...

4 Jul 2023

Carbon credits for coal power phaseout offer up both money and complexity

News / Carbon & Climate

Why isn’t China’s emissions growth slowing like its GDP?

Following the emergence of Covid-19 and its impacts, China put a strong emphasis on coal power and energy-intensive heavy industry to secure energy security and GDP growth. This has put it a long way ...

25 Apr 2024

Why isn’t China’s emissions growth slowing like its GDP?

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: What China’s push for ‘new quality productive forces’ means for climate action

...power market to address a range of challenges inherent to the old grid system, including increasing the share of renewable power in overall power generation. It is “an area where this idea of coordin...

25 Jul 2024

Q&A: What China’s push for ‘new quality productive forces’ means for climate action

News / Energy

China falls back on coal to meet summer peak demand

...power output contracting and power generation from renewables being insufficiently stable, thermal power (particularly coal) has been China’s ultimate guarantor of power supply this summer. Lin Boqian...

22 Aug 2023

China falls back on coal to meet summer peak demand

Press Releases / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP welcomes Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) Initiative

...power to end modern slavery, affecting an estimated 50 million people and generating over US$236 billion in illicit earnings. We commend UNU-CPR for their impressive work and look forward to enhancing...

15 Jul 2024

UNDP welcomes Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) Initiative

News / Policy & Finance

Amazon summit lights way for Indigenous say in forest protection

Indigenous leaders are holding out hope that a summit of Amazon country leaders held this week in the Brazilian city of Belém will give them more power over how the rainforest is managed, drawing on ...

16 Aug 2023

Amazon summit lights way for Indigenous say in forest protection

News / Policy & Finance

Pre-COP talks marred by ‘lengthy and unwieldy’ draft on new climate fund goal

...ads of states or fanfare of the event-packed pavilions at COP. “ Parties have expressed concern about the draft's length and how unwieldy it is, with some of them stating outright that they cannot w...

11 Jun 2024

Pre-COP talks marred by ‘lengthy and unwieldy’ draft on new climate fund goal

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