Southeast Asia's Clean Energy Transition / Philippines

At his fourth State of the Nation address, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced policies to advance renewable energy deployment to tap the archipelago's enormous solar, wind, hydropower, ocean and biomass potential.

The current move in many countries of South and South East Asia to expand coal-fired power generation will lead to a serious issue of stranded assets.

Southeast Asia is the only region in the world where coal's share of the energy mix is growing. Eco-Business asked David Turk of the International Energy Agency what the region can do to curb emissions while providing reliable electricity to a large and growing population.

EB Studio Although the climate crisis is slowly gaining media attention, journalists from across Asia still face an uphill task of reporting on the environment. This year, World Bank Group and Eco-Business brought together over 20 journalists for the Innovate4Climate 2019 Media Fellowship to learn how to best report on the biggest story of our time.

At a time when youth-led strikes worldwide are influencing climate governance, young students from the Philippines staged their largest protest action thus far, calling for the government to take a stand against coal.

As part of her mission to put greenhouse gas emissions on a downward path by 2020, Christiana Figueres pushes for renewables to electrify one of the most coal-dependent countries in Southeast Asia.

From blockchain chickens to edible packaging and zero-carbon shipping, here are our favourite climate-friendly innovations of 2018.

A solar grid is making life easier for the forest rangers of Norzagaray - could it help other remote communities as well?

Puerto Princesa, a coastal city on the Philippine island of Palawan, preserves its forests, uses 'green building' design and shuns the diesel that once powered generators in homes and hotels, as it remains vulnerable to climate change.

Packaged as “clean and environment-friendly”, the two new coal plants will be built close to an intact rainforest in northern Philippines. Locals resisting the $1.5 billion project say it will destroy the environment and ruin livelihoods.