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Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production

...2025. Steel decarbonisation fails to keep pace Over the past year, there has been a notable shift in the proportions of coal-based and lower-carbon forms of planned steelmaking capacity, says GEM. ...

31 Jul 2023

Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What it will take to transform development finance

...2025 goals set at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit. Looking ahead, better integration with the broader set of public development banks – including national ones, which collectively lend m...

24 Jun 2023

What it will take to transform development finance

News / Energy

‘Wind in the sails’: US-China climate agreement can boost global action

...2025. A symbolic location The accord was struck by the nations’ climate envoys John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua at a meeting in the Sunnylands resort of California, a symbolic site of US–China cooperation. ...

6 Dec 2023

‘Wind in the sails’: US-China climate agreement can boost global action

News / Energy

Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada

...2025”. (A year ago, the agency said renewables would become the world’s largest electricity source within three years.) One major driver of this growth is the plummeting cost of renewables, especially...

14 Jan 2024

Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada

News / Policy & Finance

Green jobs take off in China

...2025. The word online is that these jobs can pay as much as 150,000 yuan (US$20,900) per month. According to the 2023 update of the government’s Green Industry Guidance Catalogue, such industries inc...

3 Jul 2023

Green jobs take off in China

News / Energy

Newly approved gas reserves in Malaysia, Vietnam threaten 1.5°C warming limit: report

...2025, said Global Energy Monitor, a non-governmental organisation that catalogues fossil fuel and renewable energy projects worldwide, citing their Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker. These fields ...

10 Aug 2023

Newly approved gas reserves in Malaysia, Vietnam threaten 1.5°C warming limit: report

News / Food & Agriculture

Earthworms wiggle their way into China’s policy protection

...2025 – is expected to identify the distribution of earthworm species in the soil of different regions, but there is also a need to launch studies into earthworm habitats other than cultivated land. ...

18 Oct 2023

Earthworms wiggle their way into China’s policy protection

News / Carbon & Climate

Electric dreams: What is needed to accelerate EV growth in Malaysia?

...2025 and to have hybrids and EVs account for at least 15 per cent of the total industry volume by 2030. In 2022, there were over 15,000 units of plug-in hybrids, hybrids and full electric vehicles on ...

3 Apr 2023

Electric dreams: What is needed to accelerate EV growth in Malaysia?

News / Policy & Finance

Inaugural Africa Climate Summit dominated by debt and finance

...2025”, states the declaration. Bhandary says multilateral development banks (MDBs) must therefore respond by scaling up their work in developing countries. Bhandary welcomes the World Bank’s roadmap f...

13 Oct 2023

Inaugural Africa Climate Summit dominated by debt and finance

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

...2025, are seen as impediments. At a conference in Manila last month, Laure Nicole Stephanie Beaufils, UK ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau, underlined the need f...

21 Nov 2023

‘Intention is not enough’: Philippine firms urged to step up action on net zero

Demonstrators in Hanover, Germany protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The geopolitics of nature

...2025 (COP30), also represent important opportunities. As the world’s most influential representative of nature-rich developing economies, Brazil could use these platforms to mobilise greater support f...

7 Jun 2023

The geopolitics of nature

News / Food & Agriculture

Failure of Amazon no-deforestation pledge mirrors challenges in Southeast Asia: observers

...2025, to eradicate hunger while “achieving sustainable forest management” – though quantitative targets are not set for conservation. Campilan said steps such as stronger action against illegal loggin...

21 Aug 2023

Failure of Amazon no-deforestation pledge mirrors challenges in Southeast Asia: observers

News / Lifestyle

Greener gigs? How the music business is tuning into climate action

...2025. A growing number of events have committed to recycling targets and cutting down on single-use plastic like bottles and cups, but some festivals are seeking to go further. Roskilde festival in...

27 Jul 2023

Greener gigs? How the music business is tuning into climate action

News / Energy

A sweet solution? India’s push to use sugar for fuel may create more problems than it solves

...2025. Last year, India used 3.6 million tonnes (about 9 per cent) of its sugar to make ethanol; in 2022-23 it aims for this to reach 4.5-5 million tonnes. In 2003, the Indian government launched its e...

20 Feb 2023

A sweet solution? India’s push to use sugar for fuel may create more problems than it solves

News / Carbon & Climate

As net-zero pressure mounts, Singapore corporates grapple with setting 2050 targets without visibility

...2025. For some firms, the challenges of sourcing clean power in Singapore mean not making firm commitments for now. The country’s largest taxi operator ComfortDelGro said in its 2022 sustainability re...

14 Jun 2023

As net-zero pressure mounts, Singapore corporates grapple with setting 2050 targets without visibility

Press Releases / Mastercard

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

...2025. Here in the Asia Pacific region, more than 20 partners in Australia, Korea, the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan, the Philippines and Cambodia have joined the Coalition which is currently...

2 May 2023

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

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

The coming crackdown on corporate greenwashing

...2025. The International Organization for Standardization has also recently published its own set of net-zero guidelines, providing regulators with clear rules and criteria for credible climate strateg...

2 May 2023

The coming crackdown on corporate greenwashing

News / Carbon & Climate

Egyptian presidency blamed for omission of climate demands in latest COP27 draft deal

...2025 – a trajectory scientists say is key to limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Observers are starting to pin blame on the Egyptian hosts of the COP27 summit, who are heading talks that have at times b...

18 Nov 2022

Egyptian presidency blamed for omission of climate demands in latest COP27 draft deal

News / Policy & Finance

Investments in climate adaptation technology falling short as returns are still not measurable: World Bank execs

...2025. Meanwhile, funding for climate mitigation which includes solar and onshore wind continue to be the main recipient of renewable energy finance, attracting over 91 per cent of all mitigation inves...

26 May 2023

Investments in climate adaptation technology falling short as returns are still not measurable: World Bank execs