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Climate change could reduce GDP in developing Asia and the Pacific by 17% by 2070

New Asian Development Bank (ADB) research finds the impacts of climate change could reduce gross domestic product (GDP) in developing Asia and the Pacific by 17 per cent by 2070 under a high-end green...

1 Nov 2024

coal power plant in Calaca, Batangas, Philippines

...renewables development, building port infrastructure to facilitate offshore wind projects, modernising electricity grids and shutting coal plants early. By 2050, grid upgrades would cost US$9 billion,...

19 Feb 2024

Computing giant Microsoft has appointed William Hudson as its Asia Pacific director of sustainability policy. In his role, he will pursue Microsoft's ambition to use only renewable energy to power its...

6 Feb 2024

...renewables, along with social spending to secure livelihoods for displaced workers. Shutting Southeast Asia’s many pollutive coal plants is critical to halting climate change. But these power stations...

17 Apr 2024

...renewables into the market and put the energy transition into reverse. The new President of Indonesia needs the courage to turn their back on Jokowi's bad energy transition legacy and take a bolder pa...

17 Jan 2024

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero Asia Pacific (GFANZ APAC) network has kicked off a study to model the cost of decommissioning Japan’s coal-fired power plants early. The regional arm of GFA...

13 Apr 2024

India’s ambitious clean energy goals, focusing on increasing renewables and reducing coal use, may heighten disparities between two regions of the country – one covering western and southern states an...

1 Nov 2023

...renewables outlook for Asean and a socio-economic analysis for the region, which serve as guides for accelerating the adoption of renewables. Southeast Asia is still big on gas developments, and exten...

31 Oct 2023

Typhoon Haiyan Devastates the Philippines

As climate change increases flood risk, heat and water stress, governments across Asia urgently need private investments to back their public spending on climate adaptation. However, the biggest Asian...

7 Mar 2025

Foreign investments: Diverging trends amid global challenges

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is at a crossroads, according to the latest Global Investment Trends Monitor released by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 20 January. In 2024, global FDI...

4 Feb 2025

A Brazil-based civil society organisation has filed multiple lawsuits against the government for holding an auction of oil exploration blocks – which will allow drilling at the mouth of the Amazon bas...

24 Jun 2025

Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX), Malaysia’s first voluntary carbon marketplace, is gearing up to offer its first local, nature-based carbon credits within the first half of this year. The credits will be...

7 Feb 2024

Environmental_Governance_Kashmir_Boatman

On 16 October, after more than six years of direct rule from New Delhi, an elected government was sworn into power in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The election was won by the Natio...

27 Nov 2024

...renewables-based hydrogen, or by adding carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). However, there are no targets for how many coal plants should be retrofitted, or what the incentives will be to ...

23 Aug 2024

COP30 President-Designate Andre Aranha Correa do Lago 2

China and India, two of the world’s largest emitters, have key roles to play in tackling climate change, said COP30 United Nations president-designate André Aranha Corrêa do Lago. This is especially a...

5 Mar 2025

Possibly China’s most unexpected hot topic of the summer was the “waste shortage”. Six years since Shanghai sparked nationwide debate by making it compulsory to sort household waste, the “shortage” su...

25 Nov 2025

Fashion is about showing off your best self to the world. While brands have long faced scrutiny over their production practices – the industry historically relied on exploitative labour, sweatshops, ...

30 Sep 2024

The top-level 15th five-year plan, due to be published in March 2026, will shape greenhouse gas emissions in China – and globally – for the rest of this decade and beyond. The targets set under the pl...

7 Jan 2026

...renewables sector, clean energy will have to come from the hydropower from rivers and offshore wind. These are ways for proceeds from blue bonds to contribute to a sustainable economy. It also demons...

14 Jun 2024

Few people ponder what drives the servers that store their digital files in the cloud, keeping them safe and always available. In reality, these servers are powered by data centres, which are large ph...

8 Apr 2024

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