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Chatbots, AI news readers: Asia embraces automation despite job loss fears

...1.3 million workers and generates US$30 billion a year, or about 7 per cent of the nation's GDP. Citing research that forecast at least 1.1 million jobs in the Philippines will disappear by 2028 due t...

14 Aug 2023

Chatbots, AI news readers: Asia embraces automation despite job loss fears

Workers are seen at the Hoa Binh hydropower plant in Vietnam's Hoa Binh Province on February 18, 2023.

Opinion / Energy

Navigating electricity reform in Vietnam

...14 cents/kWh in Thailand, 9.5 cents/kWh in Indonesia, and 15 cents/kWh in the Philippines. The average cost of production in Vietnam sits around 9 cents per kWh, which means consumers are subsidised f...

21 Jun 2023

Navigating electricity reform in Vietnam

News / Policy & Finance

ADB’s bid to expand private sector financing for climate goals reignites worries about lack of social safeguards

...13.8 trillion in infrastructure from 2023 to 2030 to support growth and meet climate goals. In its latest strategy document, it says that it aims to reach $100 billion of climate financing from its ow...

24 May 2023

ADB’s bid to expand private sector financing for climate goals reignites worries about lack of social safeguards

News / Energy

Scientists develop technology to produce green hydrogen from seawater

...132-192 million tonnes of water. Globally, researchers are putting efforts into using seawater directly for GH2 production. There are two ways in which seawater can be used to replace fresh water for ...

12 Jul 2023

Scientists develop technology to produce green hydrogen from seawater

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: What the Draghi report says about EU climate action and energy

...1960s and 1970s. It points to the US Marshall Plan as a point of comparison, which included an investment 1-2 per cent of GDP annually between 1948 and 1951, highlighting the scale of the investment t...

20 Sep 2024

Q&A: What the Draghi report says about EU climate action and energy

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Our climate future hinges on forest preservation

...1.5° Celsius. To protect them (and, by extension, the Earth), we believe a new incentive mechanism that provides direct compensation for forest conservation can help. Most climate scientists agree tha...

18 Apr 2023

Our climate future hinges on forest preservation

News / Water

Carbon-laden estuaries can spew potent climate-heating gas, study shows

...1 unit drop in pH, causes an approximately 10 to 30 per cent increase in N₂O emissions. An increase in acidity corresponds to a lower value on the pH scale. When pH dropped by 0.3 units – roughly equi...

15 Mar 2023

Carbon-laden estuaries can spew potent climate-heating gas, study shows

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

...16, the time of the last strong El Niño. Global temperatures increased by about 0.25 F (0.14 C) on average, making 2016 the warmest year on record. A weak El Niño also occurred in 2019-2020, contribut...

31 Jul 2023

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate disinformation campaigns that tried to block climate action in Asia Pacific

...19, 20 or 21 March every year," said P Raghunadan, president of the Plentary Society India. This year, when India experienced its warmest February in 122 years, messages claiming that “heat waves lik...

23 Aug 2023

Climate disinformation campaigns that tried to block climate action in Asia Pacific

News / Transport

Methanol edges ahead in shipping’s quest for cleaner fuel, as regulators warn of dangers of ammonia

...11 degrees Celsius – and is unlike ammonia, which requires expensive vessel retrofits and pressurised tanks for safe storage. No vessel currently runs on ammonia today. The proposed GCMD trials were ...

10 May 2023

Methanol edges ahead in shipping’s quest for cleaner fuel, as regulators warn of dangers of ammonia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

...10 per cent of its food supply, and Japan, which can only farm on 11.3 per cent of its land. Insect farming can help solve not just the issues of food insecurity and dependence on other economies; i...

10 May 2023

Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?

News / Energy

Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals

...16,000GW by 2050, some 30 per cent higher than expected last year and nearly 11-times higher than it thought in 2015, as shown in the figure below. By 2023, the world had already installed 1,610GW of ...

29 Oct 2024

Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals

News / Energy

‘No magic bullet’: Financial institutions say Malaysia still searching for right mechanism to de-risk green energy investments

...1.3 trillion (US$280 billion) of investments is needed to meet Malaysia’s energy transition needs. But where should investors be placing their money and directing their efforts to support a just energ...

11 Sep 2023

‘No magic bullet’: Financial institutions say Malaysia still searching for right mechanism to de-risk green energy investments

News / Carbon & Climate

As Malaysia grapples with floods, the need for a climate change bill is clear

...14, the world’s average annual surface temperature is expected to increase by 1.9–2.1C by 2100, and global sea levels are projected to rise about 70 centimetres. The natural resources ministry said t...

18 Aug 2023

As Malaysia grapples with floods, the need for a climate change bill is clear

Opinion / Energy

Keeping Indonesia’s downstream coal projects afloat will require hefty government subsidies

...1.4 million tonnes of DME a year to replace 1 million tonnes of LPG imports. The other proposed plant, located in Kalimantan, is a US$2 billion coal-to-methanol project. In the case of the US$2.1 bil...

6 Apr 2023

Keeping Indonesia’s downstream coal projects afloat will require hefty government subsidies

Press Releases / Mastercard

Mastercard to eliminate first-use PVC plastics from payment cards by 2028

...18. Since then, over 330 issuers across 80 countries have voluntarily signed up, including 90 issuers in 15 markets across the Asia Pacific region. Since then, Mastercard has been working in partnersh...

2 May 2023

Mastercard to eliminate first-use PVC plastics from payment cards by 2028

News / Waste

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

...1,231 million tonnes in 2060 from 460 million tonnes in 2019. Parker said the problem is particularly severe in emerging economies which lack sophisticated recycling processes that exist in countri...

30 May 2023

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

News / Energy

Chinese investment in Philippines’ renewables

...13.6 per cent, followed by geothermal (7.0 per cent), solar (5.4 per cent), biomass (1.8 per cent) and wind (1.6 per cent). The country does not yet have a net-zero target but it plans to increase th...

21 Jul 2023

Chinese investment in Philippines’ renewables

Research / Normative

How to reduce supplier carbon emissions

...1. Focus Identify which suppliers to focus on, using criteria such as supplier GHG emissions, GHG emission reduction potential, the readiness of suppliers to engage, and strength of relationship with...

14 Oct 2022

How to reduce supplier carbon emissions

News / Food & Agriculture

Philippines' women seaweed farmers keep coastal families afloat

...120 seaweed farmers in the Palawan village of Balintang is named after the 1984 hit "Cherish" by US band Kool & the Gang. "Cherish means to protect and care for what we have," Mardy Montaño, presi...

23 Jun 2023

Philippines' women seaweed farmers keep coastal families afloat

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