Eco-Business

A recent joint study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water and International Institute of Sustainable Development claims that subsidies for India’s renewable energy sector have decreased by 59 per cent since 2017.

The Indonesian export ban on palm oil comes in as the world grapples with high cooking oil prices with the loss of sunflower oils following the conflict in Ukraine.

Petrol station attendant Naeem Satti charges an electric SUV at a charging station in Islamabad, Pakistan

Spurred on by hefty new tax exemptions for electric vehicle imports, an ambitious policy to cut carbon emissions and urban pollution is picking up speed.

Around 87 per cent of the US$540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health.

By Sonia Sambhi

By Tim Radford

By Noah J. Gordon, China Dialogue

By Gao Baiyu, China Dialogue

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Climate change-induced drought in Mongolia

The fallout from Covid-19, climate change and conflicts are no longer isolated pockets of misery. We need a new multilateral system – one mirroring national schemes on taxes, incentives and accountability – to provide global public goods. By Mauricio Cárdenas

Global efforts involving awareness-raising, nudging, and shaming are necessary but not sufficient to prevent a climate crisis. Addressing the problem more effectively requires international governance arrangements that amount to a new social contract on global public goods. By Omar Razzaz

notice about the shortage of Covid-19 vaccine supplies India

If the world wants to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalisation and regional cooperation. By Bambang Susantono, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Kanni Wignaraja

Will the children of Vanuatu have a future?

Asking nations hit by storms to buy insurance against them is like making victims of car accidents—rather than drivers—pay the costs. By Ralph Regenvanu

By Javier Manzanares

By Sri Wening Handayani

By Barbara Unmuessig and Michael Kellner

By Jing Ling Tan

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Automakers are touting overseas investments in electric vehicles, even as they lobby for lower fuel standards in the United States.

At the UN Climate Summit, Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio delivered a stern message to government leaders, telling them to stop ignoring the reality of climate change. Watch his speech here:

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EB Studio [The EB Podcast] Clean energy is tipped as the solution to Asia's energy trilemma—the need to scale up energy access, but in an affordable and sustainable way. How can technology help the region realise the full potential of clean energy?

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