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Clean electricity and hence renewable energy are the bedrocks of the ongoing – or forthcoming, depending on where you live – energy transition. Yet, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issu...

10 Mar 2023

For 26-year-old mechanical engineer and scholar Zun Moe Thiri, one formative experience she had was helping to install solar panels at an underserved orphanage and monastery in a rural village in Myan...

4 Apr 2023

A steel manufacturing plants in Indonesia

Instead of divesting from high-emitting sectors and hoping they will one day decarbonise, investors should find ways to help these sectors transition to greener operations. This is especially importan...

29 Oct 2024

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...renewables, but across every sector of the economy. For example, he said: "We need a new green revolution in agriculture. One of the solutions is to revolutionise rice farming and to decarbonise rice ...

16 Apr 2024

...renewables and a drop in energy demand also helped to make up the shortfall left by falling supplies from Russia. Energy analyst Pavel Molchanov told trade publication S&P Global that “[energy] co...

7 Mar 2024

...renewables, including wind and solar, which it says will help alleviate pressures on scarce water resources as well as deliver a reduction in carbon emissions. It also suggests that the use of less w...

5 Jun 2023

DENR, UNDP highlight potential of circular economy to accelerate climate targets

Environmental experts and policymakers encourage the acceleration of circular economy principles as a means to buy time to put more concrete measures in place to reduce greenhouse gases. In a forum h...

15 Jan 2024

...renewables mean that the “phasedown” of gas as well as coal power required for this transition is “now within reach”. However, it also says stalling nuclear and hydropower construction needs to be rev...

19 Apr 2023

...renewables firm Sunlabob, the Lao Football Federation, disaster relief charity Mercy Relief, and Singapore Press Holdings as a journalist.

30 Jul 2023

As oil becomes more expensive to produce and its demand falls in line with a future where global temperature increase is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, national oil companies are at risk of not being...

9 Dec 2023

...renewables. It is not only the largest producer of solar energy, it also dominates solar panel manufacturing, producing more than 80 per cent of global supply – more than double its domestic demand, a...

6 Feb 2023

Last week, Indonesian financial regulators indicated they were considering a place for new coal-fired power plants in the country’s green taxonomy. This appears to be going beyond their plan to recogn...

5 Sep 2023

...renewables. These income-based subsidies should be targeted at the affordable segments of EVs — with an attached sunset clause based on EV ownership targets. The implementation of such a subsidy schem...

27 Mar 2023

Dutch bank Rabobank has green lit Singapore-based palm oil giant Musim Mas' inaugural sustainability-linked loan (SLL) without sorting out who will be tracking progress on the targets pegged to its EU...

10 Sep 2024

The installation of solar water pumps has transformed the lives of the Buddhist nuns at the Pangmo Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, enabling them to maintain their daily prayer routine, especially durin...

14 Mar 2024

It is well known that meat dishes and fast food can have a high impact on biodiversity and sustainability. But recent scientific studies indicate that some vegetarian recipes popular in South Asia can...

11 Apr 2024

The introduction of the Feed-in-tariff (FIT) mechanism for solar and wind energy projects has contributed to the remarkable uptake in Vietnam since 2017. After the last FIT rollout on 31 December 2020...

14 Apr 2023

...renewables. But analysts said those efforts must be accelerated. Some Indonesian nickel mines are also operating without permits and have caused deforestation in protected areas, contaminating the soi...

4 Apr 2023

...renewables to come online in Asia's grid, we can put more solar on our rooftops and look at improving energy efficiency and energy consumption reduction at the building level. Scope 3 is the biggest s...

28 Feb 2024

Better collaboration is urgently needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on three key river basins in South Asia – the Brahmaputra, Indus and Ganges – according to new analysis. The three riv...

9 Apr 2024

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