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Threats to our ocean grow in number and intensity every day. Overfishing, biodiversity loss, marine litter, invasive species and pollutants are directly impacting the health and resilience of marine e...

20 Mar 2025

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As the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) unfolds in Cali, Colombia over the next two weeks, most nations have missed the deadline to submit updated conservation pledges, highlighting a gl...

23 Oct 2024

A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

Around 3,000 to 5,000 people visit Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), Indonesia's under-construction capital in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, every day. Some are from the nearby oil and gas towns of...

31 Jan 2025

...renewables is particularly challenging in Indonesia and Vietnam. In Indonesia, project developers complain of unfair competition against fossil fuel subsidies meant to keep electricity prices low. Vie...

29 Jan 2024

Update on Malaysia’s national climate change bill will be shared in September, with public consultation launched thereafter

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24 July – Malaysia’s highly-anticipated National Climate Change bill is making steady progress and the results of a roadshow by NRES (Ministry of National Reso...

25 Jul 2024

Fisherman Isaac Aranas of coastal barangay Tibaguin in Hagonoy, Bulacan recounts seeing an ominous slick of oil on the surface of Manila Bay a few kilometres from the coastline, on the evening of 27 J...

5 Aug 2024

Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab. Each year, Kaur and her family together harvest about 90 quintal...

25 Mar 2024

...renewables by 2028, underscores the party’s ambitious climate agenda. Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan – Promising a better Karachi The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) (MQM-P), released its manif...

7 Feb 2024

Gurīn Energy achieves financial close for 75MW solar project in the Philippines

Gurīn Energy, a Singapore-based pan-Asian renewable energy developer, owner and operator, today announced the financial close for its 75 megawatt (MW) solar farm in the Philippines. Located in the mun...

6 Dec 2023

2024 was the hottest year on Earth since records began. This year, ushered in by ravaging fires in California, promises more of the same. Climate change is having a real and damaging effect on our en...

14 Mar 2025

...renewables, investments in advanced energy storage solutions and grid modernisation are imperative,” he said. In his closing remarks, TNB president and chief executive officer Dato’ Seri Ir Baharin Di...

4 Dec 2023

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

...renewables. As the transition accelerates, she said guidelines on ethical mining would be needed for minerals like nickel, used in renewables and green technologies such as electric vehicles. "There n...

6 Feb 2024

Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

One of the hardest things about being a chief sustainability officer (CSO) is becoming a lightning rod for criticism. When a company is accused of greenwashing or linked to environmental destruction, ...

25 May 2026

As just under a billion people prepare to head for the polls amid scorching summer temperatures, to what extent will they be concerned about climate change as they cast their votes? India's prime mini...

31 Mar 2024

Asia-Pacific region to chart bold path for migration governance

The second Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in Asia and the Pacific opened today with a call for migration policies that prioritise the needs a...

10 Feb 2025

The term ‘the Global South’ remains contentious in many circles, but it serves to highlight the disparities in power, development and wealth between the less developed countries of the southern hemisp...

1 Aug 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

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