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Latin American leaders gathered in Beijing earlier this month for the fourth ministerial summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and China. Speaking at the opening ...

28 May 2025

Netherlands-based STX Group, which trades globally in products such as renewable energy certificates (RECs), carbon offsets and biofuels, is expanding its Asia Pacific operations to now provide corpor...

17 Jan 2024

COP28 was interesting. For the first time it called for the world to move away from all fossil fuels, and in the same breath gave a nod to natural gas as a transition fuel. The juxtaposition of those ...

28 Feb 2024

UN secretary-general and global leaders mark 60 years of UNCTAD, urging for an equitable economy

UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Global Leaders Forum, marking the 60th anniversary of the organisation, with the Secretary-General of UNCTAD, ...

18 Jun 2024

...renewables (red). The 50 per cent target is now highly unlikely to be met without a slowdown in energy consumption growth. Without a slowdown, renewables would have to grow by 20 per cent per year to ...

1 Mar 2024

In less than a year, China will need to submit its 2035 climate targets to the UN, alongside updates to its pre-existing 2030 targets. So far, the country has committed to peaking its greenhouse gas e...

27 Jun 2024

Make 2025 count for feminism: What you can do right now

Gender inequality is the greatest challenge of our times. Gender equality is the greatest opportunity. The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action is an unmissable chance to...

3 Mar 2025

For Asia to meet both near and long-term decarbonisation goals, nature-based solutions (NbS) and the carbon credits generated from low-carbon projects and technologies must be part of the picture. Wit...

16 Jul 2024

Multilateralism and robust data vital to mobilising capital for Asia Pacific's sustainable finance gap

Singapore, 21 October: Countries across Asia Pacific will need to strengthen cross-border cooperation and integrate climate risks into investment decisions to attract public-private c...

22 Oct 2025

Four months after protests against Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina forced an interim government to take over, the country has declared that it is “open for business”. But the new regi...

13 Dec 2024

...renewables), with no plan for a fossil fuel phase out by 2050. In order to align with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C warming limit, the country needs to add 221 GW of capacity to reach 344 GW of mostly s...

9 Jan 2024

The Indian government took a considered decision to act when it was confronted with an alleged terror strike at a tourist site in Kashmir on April 22. The following day, the government announced five...

19 May 2025

With Asia Pacific seriously lagging on all 17 of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) there are doubts if the region will ever catch up. The latest progress report shows the region is set to ...

1 Apr 2024

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Minerals like nickel, lithium, cobalt and copper are foundational to the global clean-energy transition. Solar panels, wind turbines, EVs and battery storage cannot be built without them. Yet extracti...

26 Nov 2025

The southern coast of Obi Island, North Maluku, Indonesia. The sea has turned red due to pollution from the nickel mines and smelters.

Baca dalam Bahasa Indonesia Indonesia produces nearly half of the world’s nickel, a mineral in hot demand to produce renewable energy technologies. The country's dominance over nickel production is se...

28 Jun 2024

Roadside shops selling steaming hot chai and samosas were among the first to down their shutters. The lull then spread gradually across this bazaar, located in front of a major thermal power plant in ...

25 Nov 2025

Cate Harris, group head of sustainability, Lendlease.

"Let’s talk about Scope 3 emissions: the next critical phase in decarbonising the real estate sector." This was the title of a blog post written by Cate Harris, group head of sustainability at Austral...

22 Mar 2024

Across the world, climate change is making it too hot to learn. Teachers are increasingly trying to educate students in dangerously hot classrooms, often in old school buildings built to withstand col...

5 Sep 2025

Of the 10 Asean countries, the Philippines is the only nation that has yet to commit to a hard net zero target. Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have all ann...

21 Nov 2023

...renewables in their national power plans. Effecting this transition is no simple matter, however. Large-scale deployment of renewables requires enormous investment. Yet in Asean, as in developing coun...

10 Oct 2023

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