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...renewables such as solar and wind energy. The result may be an undercounting of their actual greenhouse gas emissions, allowing them to meet their Paris Agreement goals — at least on paper. Both Japan...

13 May 2022

From the small window of the propeller plane where I sat in freezing temperatures, the landscape that greeted me below seared into my memory. A modern-day Mordor — barren, charred, marked with pools o...

23 Sep 2023

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In the four months since the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, decried media companies as "enablers of planetary destruction" for carrying advertisements for coal, oil and gas...

25 Sep 2024

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with a United States-based nuclear energy firm on Monday and disclosed that the firm is looking for a potential site for operations in the Southeast Asian ...

3 May 2023

...renewables, which are still held back by restricted access to the grid and heavily subsidised fossil fuels, he said. Funding for renewables is abundant, but the viability of renewables projects remain...

13 Apr 2022

Commercial electric vehicle (EV) startup Turno has appointed clean-tech engineer Karthik Ganesh to head its batteries division. Turno's batteries unit seeks to create a platform for trade in used batt...

6 Feb 2023

RWDC Industries, Lummus Technology sign MoU accelerating PHA production at scale

...renewables, petrochemicals, polymers, gas processing and supply lifecycle services, catalysts, proprietary equipment and digitalisation to customers worldwide. To learn more about Lummus, visit www.Lu...

2 May 2023

Observers have been eagerly anticipating signals from the meeting about the leadership’s plans for economic growth and wider development, including on climate action. The official readout from the mee...

25 Jul 2024

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

...renewables, had 40 gigawatts (GW) of storage capacity in 2020. Renewables contributed 21 per cent to its energy mix. Asia Pacific had a storage capacity of less than 4 GW in the same year, and most of...

9 Mar 2022

Standard Chartered will be announcing new oil and gas emissions reduction targets at its upcoming annual general meeting, said the British bank’s first chief sustainability officer (CSO) Marisa Drew, ...

9 Mar 2023

At the Beijing Auto Show in April, CATL, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, stunned many with a new product. The Shenxing Plus battery can power an EV for more than 1,000 kilomet...

20 Jun 2024

Cities contribute two-thirds of India’s GDP, but also the bulk of India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. India’s urbanisation has been described as “messy” and “hidden” because much of it is unplanne...

24 Mar 2023

ADB forecasts 4.8 per cent growth for Asia and Pacific in 2023, 2024

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts faster growth for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific this year, as the continued easing of pandemic restrictions boosts consumption, tourism, and i...

12 Apr 2023

Keen to store more irrigation water to shore up food security and protect itself from longer climate change-fuelled droughts and extreme rainfall, Indonesia has embarked on a dam-building project tha...

6 Mar 2023

Winners from the 2022 edition of The Liveability Challenge

Eight finalists have been selected from more than 600 entries for the 2023 edition of The Liveability Challenge (TLC), with blue economy solutions featuring on the shortlist for the first time. The i...

27 Apr 2023

Governments funnel this money into supporting fossil fuels, agriculture and other sectors which can have negative impacts on biodiversity. Countries have signed up to a number of targets to cut down t...

30 May 2023

...renewables and the carbon dioxide sourced from carbon capture technologies. In theory, this process could deliver 99–100 per cent reductions in emissions across the fuel lifecycle, but it’s new and co...

3 Mar 2023

Sustainable finance key lever for net-zero transition and social stability in the face of disruption

...renewables in the developing world. High risk perceptions means higher premiums, and this increases the cost of capital for renewable energy investments in the developing world. This, in turn, delays ...

26 Sep 2022

Goh Swee Chen_UnlockingCapitalForSustainability

Directors on energy boards today face a litany of pressures, from smoke bomb threats to intimidation tactics, as the complex energy transition has polarised people on both ends of the debate. This is...

19 Oct 2023

...renewables like solar and wind could also boost energy security and economic growth, experts said. "That can make it easier for the country to adapt to and increase its resilience to flooding," added ...

29 Aug 2023

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