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The oil major has “updated” its target to cut the total “net carbon intensity” of all the energy products it sells to customers – the emissions per unit of energy – by 20 per cent between 2016 and 203...

20 Mar 2024

Sustainable transport needed to overcome ‘last mile’ in development in Asia and the Pacific

Transport experts and policymakers from Asia and the Pacific have called for more regional cooperation and the formulation of national and regional policies to promote the more sustainable movement of...

12 Nov 2024

...renewables will increase the nation's dependence on imported fossil fuels and result in steeper electricity costs, which are already among the highest in Asia. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions...

9 Aug 2023

Earlier this week, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution which declared 2025 to 2034 as the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms. The resolution comes amid g...

12 Jul 2024

The Lower Subansiri hydroelectric power station, India’s largest underconstruction dam with a potential output of 2 gigawatts (GW), was originally due to be operational by 2011 at a cost of US$756 mil...

1 Feb 2024

...renewables in 2017, Finnish state-owned electricity utility Fortum Corporation, and Portugal-based utility EDP, the owner of Singaporean solar firm Sunseap. Mahindra Group, which operates in a countr...

31 Oct 2023

...renewables is one of them, while military is another. On renewables, a lot of people believe that renewables will save the planet. I also believe that renewables is the way forward. But we are still h...

4 Feb 2024

A protest banner reading “Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis” lies on land cleared for food estate project in Kalimantan in 2022.

Indonesia's new government under the leadership of Prabowo Subianto will clamp down on illegal deforestation as it looks to expand a controversial programme to be food self-sufficient, a member of the...

10 May 2024

Wilmar reaffirms sustainability leadership with continued inclusion in DJSI

Wilmar International Limited (“Wilmar” or “the Group”) has maintained its reputation as a global sustainability leader, earning its fourth consecutive inclusion in the Dow Jone...

6 Jan 2025

On 23 April, India announced it would suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a landmark water-sharing agreement with Pakistan signed in 1960. The move marked a significant escalation in South Asia’s a...

14 May 2025

Narora Nuclear Power Plant near the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India : Sharada Prasad CS Sharada Prasad CS, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

India needs an optimal mix of energy resources with a minimum of fossil fuel to meet its rapidly increasing demand for 24×7 clean energy. This demand is driven by economic growth, people’s aspiration...

27 Jan 2025

The Philippines’ lack of infrastructure for its low carbon ambitions will not be a barrier to renewable power investment, clean energy advocates said. This is despite the low investor turnout for the ...

18 Sep 2023

“The foundation for China’s sustained economic recovery and growth is not solid enough,” stated Premier Li Qiang in the government’s work report published on 5 March. The report is the central part of...

18 Mar 2024

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

While it has made progress in some areas, Malaysia's daily waste generation rate is way above the global average. The disposal of Malaysia's waste – domestic and imported – is an increasing concern. ...

7 Jun 2024

Donald Trump 2024 election campaign materials.

...renewables firm Gurin Energy, believes that "the train has left the station" as pressure grows on companies to decarbonise from investors, customers and employees; a new US president is unlikely to sl...

20 Feb 2024

Jay Mariyappan has left the United States-based asset manager Evolution Environmental Asset Management (EEAM) after nearly two years to join PetroChina International as its head of carbon and renewabl...

7 Aug 2023

Asean, ESCAP launch regional investment plan to boost sustainable FDI

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) unveiled its Regional Investment Promotion Action Plan 2025-2030 today at the Asean Investment Forum 2024 in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Developed in colla...

8 Oct 2024

10 megawatt solar farm in Pampanga, Philippines

...renewables from the current 21 per cent to 35 per cent by 2030 and 50 per cent by 2040. BPI’s green bond, its third issuance since 2018, is slated to raise money for projects such as renewable energy...

14 Aug 2023

...renewables in the country's energy mix. Apañada said even if an original goal set by the government was not met, the process still added at least 3,000 megawatts (MW) of new renewable energy, which i...

7 Aug 2023

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