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As landfills struggle to cope, Vietnam is turning to waste-to-energy plants as a potential solution – but could they introduce new challenges?

Secluded areas are being prepared for tourism growth despite environmental protections, prompting fears of unsustainable development.

The rapid surge in issuance and trade of Green Electricity Certificates indicates progress towards decarbonisation, but is creating new challenges for regulators.

A report from the Philippine Climate Change Assessment reveals a significant increase in 'Christmas typhoons' and tropical cyclone-induced rainfall in the country over recent decades, with scientists attributing these trends to human-induced climate change.

By Basten Gokkon

By Rhick Lars Albay

By Gabrielle See

By Geela Garcia

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To encourage greater water reuse, India must prioritise infrastructure development, implement sound policies and allow private sector participation. By Anshuman

Indonesia’s capital has poor water infrastructure. Existing water resources should be reused to avoid a water crisis. By Eka Permanasari and Denis Teoman

The number of cancer cases in Singapore is on the rise even though the hazardous material was banned more than 30 years ago. By Dr Sean Lim

The current pace of renewable-energy adoption still falls short of what it will take to hit the Paris agreement’s mid-century net-zero targets, and to meet the immediate development needs of those living in energy poverty. By Woochong Um

By Clemens Fuest and Maria Waldinger

By Dr Richard Friend, Dr Jutamas Kaewsuk and Dr Pakamas Thinphanga

By James Goldie

By Susilawati

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EB Studio From sponge cities to coastal forests, Asia is seeking ways to work with nature and prepare for the risks in a warmer-than-expected future. This Eco-Business video looks at what else cities need to do to strengthen climate resilience.

Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted. It will premiere in Singapore and screen on the sidelines of the upcoming COP28 climate summit.

EB Studio Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.

Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.

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Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.

EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the third episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how the shipping industry is charting a course to a low-carbon future.

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