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Yet, with another round of negotiations looming at COP30 in November, there has been growing discontent with the UN climate process. Critics say the talks are not doing enough to accelerate emissions ...

15 Aug 2025

SMBC’s group chief sustainability officer Masayuki Takanashi

After years of being hyped up by business leaders and politicians as a key fuel to clean up several hard-to-abate sectors, hydrogen is now facing a reality check. However, despite the dampened prospec...

15 May 2025

Hashim Djojohadikusumo speaking at a conference - Feb 2025

Just weeks into his presidency, Indonesia’s new leader Prabowo Subianto made the unexpected vow to retire the country’s entire fleet of fossil-fuelled power plants by 2040. But according to the Southe...

4 Feb 2025

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A Singapore-based global health institute has recruited Filipino academic Renzo Guinto, a key advocate of the emerging concept of "planetary health", and tasked him to set up a new Asia-wide network f...

20 Feb 2024

UN-convened panel to address equity, sustainability and human rights across value chains of critical energy transition minerals

With ever-growing needs for minerals that are critical for renewable energy technologies, Secretary-General António Guterres is leveraging the United Nations’ convening power to bring tog...

4 May 2024

The number of new businesses focused on sustainability and innovation in the Philippines has grown 500 per cent since 2020, according to a report released by a United States-based nonprofit that provi...

27 Sep 2024

Tonibung’s compound In Kampung Nampasan, nestled in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah, looks like a typical engineering workshop – with metal frames and bars stacked neatly to one side and bags of c...

9 Jul 2025

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At the recent Bonn Climate Camp, held alongside United Nations climate negotiations in Germany, young Filipino climate activist Ghillean Pranz Fegidero – better known by their drag persona, Celestia –...

7 Jul 2025

Along the flood-prone coasts of the Philippines, one of the defining dilemmas of the climate crisis - how to balance environmental needs with economic development - is dominating a debate around the ...

3 Apr 2024

This hypothesised scenario would see global temperatures initially “overshoot” the Paris Agreement’s aspirational limit of 1.5°C, before they are brought back down through techniques that would remove...

13 Oct 2025

From 30 June to 3 July, representatives from governments across the world met in Seville, Spain, for the Fourth Financing for Development (FfD4) summit. This UN event, last held in Addis Ababa, Ethiop...

4 Aug 2025

Putra and I come from regions facing strikingly similar paths in the global energy transition. My hometown is in Shanxi province, northern China, while Putra’s family is from South Sumatra and he has ...

1 Apr 2025

For many fast-urbanising cities across India, a continuous water supply that does not get cut in the middle of the day is a pipe dream. In some regions, households and offices now have intermittent ac...

15 May 2024

A notable shift is underway across Gulf economies: capital once concentrated on domestic and Western-led project is increasingly flowing into Asian markets. From clean energy infrastructure to green t...

27 Aug 2025

As India’s capital ushers in a new government, residents of Sanoth, a village in north-west Delhi, are demanding urgent action against a proposed waste-to-energy plant that could further poison their ...

14 Feb 2025

Farmers distributing fruits and vegetables in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Despite committing to nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to limit global warming, countries have struggled to meet their emissions-reduction targets. This i...

28 Aug 2024

Developed by Indigenous peoples centuries ago, it was only recently that the bioeconomy’s role in mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity has gained momentum. Currently valued at US$4 tr...

16 May 2025

It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a climate disaster. But while there is an emerging consensus on the structural econ...

24 Sep 2024

Women have a key role to play at the forefront of climate action. They drive policy change, inspire sustainable solutions and champion environmental protection and social justice. From government posi...

23 Sep 2024

More countries affirm support for ending the gender pay gap by 2030

Chile and Turkey have committed to joining the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) and two more countries have agreed to increase efforts to close their national gender pay gaps. By jo...

17 Aug 2024

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