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Every tech giant in the world is interested in building AI data centres in India. Late last year, Microsoft, Amazon and Google committed tens of billions of dollars to doing so. This year, the Adani G...

21 Apr 2026

The 8,000 sq km Barind Tract in north-western Bangladesh was once synonymous with paddy cultivation. These days, parts of the region are home to high-value crops that do not form the local staple diet...

14 May 2026

...carbon future flows through smart grids warned that traditional grids, built around centralised fossil supply, were not designed for the current renewable growth, unlike smart grids which could integr...

14 Oct 2025

The greenshouting framework guides companies through sustainability comms

A new communications guide is urging companies to speak more openly about their sustainability efforts, as experts warn that a growing trend of “greenhushing” risks undermining corporate climate actio...

20 Apr 2026

Sustaining transregional cooperation: Lessons from Asia and the Pacific and Latin America

As part of the second High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries, I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion on Strengthening Global and Regional South-South Cooperation. ...

9 Jan 2026

Sustainability start-ups Krosslinker and Ayrton Energy secure S$1 million each in catalytic funding at The Liveability Challenge 2025 Grand Finale

...carbonisation and Cool Earth. The Decarbonisation track seeks disruptive deep-tech solutions that provide scalable and impactful solutions to reduce carbon emissions across diverse industrie...

7 May 2025

What can you do with US$300 billion? For Southeast Asian nations trying to fund the construction of solar plants or wind farms, the answer is: not that much. The recent conclusion of the COP29 climate...

2 Jan 2025

Harita Group nickel mining in Obi Island

...carbonisation effort. “In the absence of reliable renewable energy to fully supply the required power for nickel producers, the energy transition inevitably incurs trade-offs.” On how OCBC reconciles ...

2 Apr 2025

Vietnam_National Assembly_Minister of Industry and Trade on nuclear power

...carbon-free baseload that complements intermittent wind and solar power. Third, investing in nuclear energy could help upgrade Vietnam’s technological capabilities, positioning it as a player in the a...

1 Jul 2025

An office worker uses an AI bot for his project

Finding ways to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) has become a priority for many businesses, with companies across industries rushing to harness its promise of higher productivity, lower costs and ne...

24 Jun 2026

Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwaves are a prescient reminder of how dangerous heat can be. During one seven-day stretch in late June, more than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded in the region b...

10 Sep 2026

...carbon dioxide via the natural photosynthesis process as natural carbon sinks, which absorb more carbon than they release, while engineered solutions attempt to capture greenhouse gas emissions for st...

9 Aug 2024

...carbon sinks and the "strongest natural defence" against climate change, according to the UN. Land and ocean ecosystems currently absorb 60 per cent of human-caused emissions, and they are the planet'...

21 Oct 2024

Thailand’s Bang Pu Nature Education Centre is Asean's 63rd heritage park

...carbon storage capabilities. They effectively absorb carbon dioxide and help regulate greenhouse gases to mitigate temperature increases. Additionally, these forests serve as a natural barrier, reduci...

4 Feb 2025

An aerial view of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in Cambodia, image by Gabrielle See

...carbon credits and RECs. The carbon credits on its platform are accredited by Verra, the world’s largest carbon credits certifier, and the RECs traded on its platform are certified by the I-REC Standa...

25 Jun 2024

...carbon-related tariffs – for instance with the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which taxes carbon-intensive goods imported into the EU – while the US goes down the path of higher blanket im...

12 Nov 2024

...carbon market. (See Carbon Brief’s special series on carbon offsetting for more.) Dr Paul Zakkour from Carbon Counts, a climate and energy consulting company, opened the second day of the conference ...

18 Jul 2024

...carbon allowances, carbon credits, or newly established carbon-sink forests. The receipt of carbon credits from impoverished areas, or development of carbon-sink forests in such areas, is to be encour...

24 Jun 2024

...carbon content of the entire tree, including counting the leaves. To understand how much carbon there is in a tree, you need all parts of it – and different species are different in terms of their bra...

4 Apr 2025

...Carbon Analytics found China to be the key source of public clean energy investments in Southeast Asia between 2013 and 2023, providing just over US$2.7 billion. Indonesia received just under half of ...

20 Aug 2025

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