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Indonesia's electric vehicle ambitions hinge on green mining drive

With the world's largest reserves of nickel, used extensively in making batteries, Indonesia is aiming to become an electric vehicle powerhouse, not least by courting Tesla CEO Elon Musk. But to attr...

4 Apr 2023

Indonesia's electric vehicle ambitions hinge on green mining drive

Fifty-two year-old Thái Nguyên resident Phạm Dũng holding a puppy

News / Food & Agriculture

Puppy-fattening farmers switch trades: Is an end in sight for Vietnam's dog meat market?

...powerful celebrity-led campaigns from animal welfare groups that point to the link between the dog meat trade and zoonotic diseases such as rabies have increasingly made eating dog taboo in Asia, even...

14 Jun 2024

Puppy-fattening farmers switch trades: Is an end in sight for Vietnam's dog meat market?

News / Cities

Climate finance in China: How are 23 pilot cities doing?

In Chongqing, China’s south-western megacity, a local energy firm has obtained a 470 million yuan (US$60 million) loan from the Bank of China to fund a Combined Cooling, Heat and Power (CCHP) station....

13 Dec 2023

Climate finance in China: How are 23 pilot cities doing?

Anwar Ibrahim, energy transition conference

News / Energy

Malaysia’s prime minister pledges economic shift away from fossil fuels

...power plants. CCUS was among the six policy levers named in the first part of the NETR, which also featured 10 flagship projects by the public and private sectors to facilitate the energy transition. ...

30 Aug 2023

Malaysia’s prime minister pledges economic shift away from fossil fuels

News / Energy

Turning pine needles from fire risk to renewable fuel

...power division of the CIAE in Bhopal, India, tells SciDev.Net: “Pine needles can be easily compacted into high calorific value briquettes that can be used for any thermal application or processed to y...

22 Jun 2023

Turning pine needles from fire risk to renewable fuel

News / Policy & Finance

Bangladesh banks on green loans to help fight climate change

...power plants, waste management and recycling, and organic farming, for example. Bangladesh Bank has also started giving awards for the best performers on sustainable finance - and every bank now has a...

26 Jul 2023

Bangladesh banks on green loans to help fight climate change

News / Energy

What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?

...power construction. In February last year, RK Singh, the minister of power and new and renewable energy, said in Parliament: “The development of hydropower is of paramount importance as it is clean, g...

28 Apr 2023

What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?

News / Carbon & Climate

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

...power sector, accounting for around 40 per cent of national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. During its first year, more than 2,000 power companies were obliged to account for their CO2 emissions from ...

15 Nov 2022

Beijing city preparing businesses for carbon market expansion

News / Waste

Asia Pacific firms lead in ranking of world’s most sustainable corporations for first time in decade

...power capacity. It committed to reducing its Scope 3 emissions, or those beyond its direct energy use and operations, by 45 per cent by 2030. More than half the firm’s emissions in its supply chain c...

18 Jan 2024

Asia Pacific firms lead in ranking of world’s most sustainable corporations for first time in decade

Press Releases / 247Solar Inc.

247Solar, Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University to study solar-powered green hydrogen, ammonia technology

...powered by 247Solar’s innovative next-generation Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and thermal energy storage technologies. The undertaking is intended in part to demonstrate the feasibility and c...

20 Mar 2023

247Solar, Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University to study solar-powered green hydrogen, ammonia technology

News / Green Buildings

HK property firms object to proposed SBTi rule change; say it will make net-zero targets ‘impossible to achieve’ in Asia

...powered by coal, natural gas and oil. SBTi's proposed rule change could mean it would not recognise real estate firms' electricity emissions reductions through market-based carbon reduction programmes...

26 Sep 2023

HK property firms object to proposed SBTi rule change; say it will make net-zero targets ‘impossible to achieve’ in Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

...power outages. Because growing use of air conditioning can drive more climate change and produce even hotter temperatures, finding low-carbon means of cooling - such as using wind and solar power to g...

19 May 2023

Why are heatwaves getting worse?

News / Carbon & Climate

'People of the forest': Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land

...power - with no enforcement mechanism to regulate the process. The Wana - whose application took several years to complete - requested 25,526 hectares of customary forest, but authorities recognised j...

7 Aug 2023

'People of the forest': Indigenous Indonesians stake claim to land

News / Manufacturing

Lego factory lays bricks for Vietnam clean energy transition

...power to 100 per cent of its population in 2020. But there are fears that the additional investments required to build out new clean energy infrastructure and upgrade the nation's power grid could dri...

19 Dec 2022

Lego factory lays bricks for Vietnam clean energy transition

Press Releases / Plastic Bank

Plastic Bank’s communities stop four billion bottles equivalent plastic from reaching the ocean

Plastic Bank has empowered communities around the globe to stop 80 million kilograms of plastic, the equivalent of 4 billion bottles, from reaching the ocean. This milestone is achieved in the year wh...

23 May 2023

Plastic Bank’s communities stop four billion bottles equivalent plastic from reaching the ocean

News / Energy

New coal exit pledges plummeted in 2022

...power generation, and where feasible, when coal is used as feedstock, such as in steelmaking. Exclusions should also cover work around coal projects, such as if roads are being laid towards thermal pl...

5 May 2023

New coal exit pledges plummeted in 2022

News / Policy & Finance

What does the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act mean for Chinese renewables firms?

...power. “A lot of the permitting processes are done locally. They’re not necessarily super digitalised,” Pierre Tardieu, chief policy officer at WindEurope, a trade association, told China Dialogue. “E...

21 Apr 2023

What does the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act mean for Chinese renewables firms?

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: The clamour for elusive climate grants

...adstock from the National University of Singapore. “Grants can be a powerful way to mobilise environmental efforts,” Broadstock said. But they should be used as a “partial support mechanism” that unlo...

31 Aug 2023

Explainer: The clamour for elusive climate grants

News / Carbon & Climate

3 things the world must do to turbocharge decarbonisation

...power sector as battery prices account for 30 per cent of the total cost of power for these solutions. The faster battery cost decline could bring forward the growth of renewables. More green energy m...

27 Jan 2023

3 things the world must do to turbocharge decarbonisation

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Sustainability startups Cricket One and GAFT win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2024

...power of innovation can provide a fillip to the shared goal of driving positive impact. We look forward to seeing the start-ups flourish and pave the way for a more sustainable and resilient future fo...

17 Apr 2024

Sustainability startups Cricket One and GAFT win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2024

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