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SDG 9. Infrastructure
Gurīn Energy appoints former Indonesia foreign affairs minister Retno Marsudi to board
Indonesia's first-ever female foreign affairs minister joins the Singapore-headquartered firm to provide strategic advice and bolster governance.
To achieve net zero emissions in Southeast Asia, addressing the significant financing gap is crucial, requiring bold targets and more international support.
The carbon capture capacity set to come online by 2030 far outpaces transport and storage capacity in key markets, finds a new report. Apart from Japan and Indonesia, the rest of Asia still lacks clear regulations for the costly technology.
SDG 9. Infrastructure
The future of data centres: A look at Asean’s next generation facilities through a lifecycle lens
EB Studio
Southeast Asia's digital economy is booming. Keeping its environmental footprint in check will require innovative solutions to build, operate and decommission data centres sustainably.
SDG 8. Economic growth
Power wheeling can drive corporate investments and advance Indonesia’s renewable energy goals
Allowing private firms to sell clean power directly to consumers via PLN's networks could help the country meet its targets without burdening the national budget and to let the state-owned electricity utility focus on grid modernisation.
Singapore inked a deal with the United States on the same day Indonesia nudged Russia for help. Analysts worry of geopolitical rivalries splitting the region and call for faster work on Asean safeguards – or simply focusing on renewables.
None of the 10 largest firms in the industry have announced steps to rein in the powerful greenhouse gas, while six are not reporting methane figures at all.
SDG 9. Infrastructure
Huge financing gap for grid infrastructure as investors see unattractive returns: Indonesia’s state utility
The private sector is promised returns for power generation, but not grid deployment. State-owned PLN wants more innovative financing tools to build a 50,000 kilometre-long transmission network to distribute its growing green energy supply.
SDG 12. Consumption
Asean could save up to US$800 billion on decarbonisation costs through fully interconnected grid, study shows
The new research findings coincide with Malaysia’s launch of its renewable energy exchange platform and new guidelines for the export of clean energy to neighbours Singapore and Thailand.
SDG 12. Consumption
Half a million hectares of Indonesian forest under threat from nickel mining, study finds
The race to electrify transport is causing extensive deforestation in Indonesia, a Mighty Earth report finds. Will the destructive practices continue under incoming president Prabowo Subianto, who has pledged to ramp up the nickel trade?
SDG 13. Climate
‘False climate solution’: NGOs push South Korea to drop renewables subsidies for biomass
Wood pellets burnt to generate energy drive deforestation in Southeast Asia, emit more CO2 per unit of energy than fossil fuels and support the Ukraine conflict, environmentalists said in an open letter to Korea's trade ministry.
SDG 13. Climate
El Niño, burning peatlands and coal: Air pollution in Southeast Asia got worse in 2023
The El Niño weather phenomenon, smouldering peatlands, coal power and vehicular pollution caused a big drop in air quality in Southeast Asia in 2023. In Indonesia, Southeast Asia's most polluted country, air quality fell by 20 per cent.
