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My country needs climate finance now to face difficult years ahead

...2025 climate finance goals must be significantly higher than current commitments. It is vital that climate finance meets three essential criteria: funding must be adequate, routine, and accessible. Co...

18 Dec 2023

My country needs climate finance now to face difficult years ahead

Climate impacts on energy infrastructure

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Harmonising global green taxonomies cannot come soon enough

...2025. Unlike the evolution of football – which took over a century and a half – we do not have the luxury of time. To tackle climate change, a global green taxonomy cannot come soon enough. Makhtar Di...

15 Jan 2024

Harmonising global green taxonomies cannot come soon enough

News / Policy & Finance

COP29, in numbers

...2025, and promised to call on countries to contribute more money during the November conference. 40,000 attendees: Just the right size for COP? The official count of registered attendees for COP29 su...

11 Nov 2024

COP29, in numbers

News / Energy

Financing Indonesia’s energy transition can happen beyond sluggish JETP deals – here’s how

...2025 – an increase of more than 40 times. The rate of renewables capacity addition is expected to increase seven times by 2030, to 29.3GW, and will reach 264.6GW by 2050. [see Figure 2] “How [is Indon...

1 Oct 2024

Financing Indonesia’s energy transition can happen beyond sluggish JETP deals – here’s how

News / Policy & Finance

Is China ready for biodiversity COP16?

...2025, and USD 30 billion a year by 2030. COP15 also adopted a resolution establishing a Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBF) under the UN’s Global Environment Facility. While its NBSAP has set no ...

1 Oct 2024

Is China ready for biodiversity COP16?

Children fetching water in Maharashtra, India

Podcasts / Water

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

...2025. In addition to water security, what would you say are some of the most pressing water-related challenges facing our planet in the years ahead? The first one is water quality. We are seeing mor...

20 Mar 2024

‘Complex yet interconnected problems’: Xylem’s VP of Global Lifecycle Services on solving water security in Asia Pacific

News / Policy & Finance

Temasek sees its first reduction in portfolio emissions against targets set in 2020

...2025. However, Rohit Sipahimalani, Temasek’s chief investment officer, told Eco-Business that “the decision to divest Pavilion Energy to Shell was based purely on commercial considerations”. “We bel...

9 Jul 2024

Temasek sees its first reduction in portfolio emissions against targets set in 2020

News / Green Buildings

Singapore nudges phaseout of gas cookers in new buildings

...2025 as one of the measures needed to decarbonise the built environment.

9 Nov 2023

Singapore nudges phaseout of gas cookers in new buildings

Press Releases / United Nations Development Programme

New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis

...2025. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP Director and Executive Coordinator of Environmental Finance said: “These new funds come at a time when urgent action is needed on several fronts, and th...

8 Feb 2024

New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

Is China’s carbon market ready for the steel sector?

...2025 The allocation of “allowances” in the national carbon market depends on accurate corporate carbon emissions data, which means more requirements in terms of emissions data. The power sector’s rob...

14 Aug 2023

Is China’s carbon market ready for the steel sector?

News / Energy

China’s north cleans up its power mix as the south lags

...2025, rising to 70 per cent for both by 2030. In fact, clean power generation already surpassed 50 per cent of Liaoning’s total power generation in 2024. Notably, nuclear power is expected to play a k...

14 Mar 2025

China’s north cleans up its power mix as the south lags

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News / Transport

Paradise protected? The ecotourism lure of Philippines' under-the-radar islands

...2025 by signing a tourism cooperation deal with Thailand, with similar agreements in the works for Cambodia and India. The Philippines’ tourism industry employs 6.21 million Filipinos and makes up 8.6...

12 Mar 2025

Paradise protected? The ecotourism lure of Philippines' under-the-radar islands

News / Energy

‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report

...2025”. Another recent report, by thinktank Climate Energy Finance (CEF), finds that the “five big” SOEs have poured tens of billions of yuan (billions of dollars) into the buildout of renewable energy...

12 Aug 2024

‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report

News / Carbon & Climate

Rich countries met US$100 billion climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’

...2025. “ The intention was to provide ‘new and additional’ finance and I think the very lowest bar for that is that the face value of [total] finance would have gone up US$100 billion. Ian Mitchell, C...

5 Jun 2024

Rich countries met US$100 billion climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change and botched policies push Pakistan toward food insecurity

...2025 season”, according to the Dawn, but this has led to protests by farmers who were hoping for a decent season after two years of hardship. Goheer said, “The ultimate solution in tackling food infla...

3 Jun 2024

Climate change and botched policies push Pakistan toward food insecurity

News / Energy

China’s push into deep-sea mining gathers speed

...2025. Countries have yet to agree on a regulation for mining of the international seabed. Discussions on this have been rolling for years at ISA, the UN-affiliated seabed regulator. Last week, ISA wra...

6 Aug 2024

China’s push into deep-sea mining gathers speed

Press Releases / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

80 per cent globally want stronger climate action by governments: UNDP survey

...2025, these results are undeniable evidence that people everywhere support bold climate action. The Peoples’ Climate Vote has enlisted the voices of people everywhere – including amongst g...

24 Jun 2024

80 per cent globally want stronger climate action by governments: UNDP survey

Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 36-year-old son of President Joko Widodo

News / Policy & Finance

Which of Indonesia's election hopefuls has the most climate credibility?

...2025, which the incumbent government recently lowered to between 17 and 19 per cent by 2025. They also intend to decentralise Indonesia's energy system, with a plan for villages to become self suffici...

5 Feb 2024

Which of Indonesia's election hopefuls has the most climate credibility?

News / Energy

Southeast Asia’s LNG investments predicted to peak by 2040: Study

...2025 and decline to 150 Mtpa by 2040 to achieve its 2050 net zero target. But oil firm Shell forecasts in its outlook this year that demand will reach almost 700 Mtpa by 2040, with projected LNG produ...

6 Nov 2023

Southeast Asia’s LNG investments predicted to peak by 2040: Study

News / Carbon & Climate

Why are Europe's Low Emission Zones fuelling unrest?

...2025, according to Brussels-based environmental NGO Transport and Environment. Here's what you need to know about these measures. Why were LEZs and ULEZs introduced? LEZs and ULEZs aim to reduce the a...

16 Feb 2024

Why are Europe's Low Emission Zones fuelling unrest?

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