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Transport

Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gear

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.
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Food & Agriculture

Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN report

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.
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Carbon & Climate

To accelerate climate action, start with mandating climate education in schools

To achieve its carbon targets, Malaysia should work on a decarbonisation task force and mandatory climate education among other solutions, urged experts.
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Carbon & Climate

Cut poverty and energy use to cool the climate

To cut poverty and energy use would cool the planet, build a more just society — but end dreams of economic growth.

Policy & Finance

EU presses ahead with tariff on embedded emissions

By Noah J. Gordon, China Dialogue

Carbon & Climate

Could China adopt more ‘trees-to-power’ technology?

By Gao Baiyu, China Dialogue

Transport

An 'elite minority' is responsible for most aviation pollution, and should be penalised for it, says NGO

By Gillian Parker

Carbon & Climate

How Biden's climate agenda aims to trigger a 'good-paying' jobs boom

By Jack Graham
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Carbon & Climate

How to avert a climate catastrophe

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
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Policy & Finance

Combating Covid-19 and ensuring no-one is left behind

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 and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Kanni Wignaraja
Will the children of Vanuatu have a future?

Carbon & Climate

It's time for those who caused climate change to pay for it

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
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Policy & Finance

Despite challenges, Green Climate Fund is critical to global action

A strong, effective fund is needed more than ever to serve the Paris Agreement, writes Javier Manzanares. By Javier Manzanares

Policy & Finance

3 ways to fill Asia-Pacific’s social protection gap

By Sri Wening Handayani

Policy & Finance

A climate-friendly response to Trump’s protectionism

By Barbara Unmuessig and Michael Kellner

Carbon & Climate

The Goldilocks dilemma of Singapore's carbon tax

By Jing Ling Tan

Carbon & Climate

What to do about the neglected menace of pollution

By Philip Landrigan and Richard Fuller
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Transport

EVs abroad, pickups at home

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

Stop pretending, climate change is not fiction: Leonardo DiCaprio

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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Energy

The future of energy

Sponsored [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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SEATCA

SEATCA says new WHO technical manual on tobacco taxation is vital for Covid-19 recovery response

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Is the world sleepwalking into a climate crisis?

Is your company walking into an avoidable tax trap?

Johnson Controls annual survey on energy efficiency decisions in Asia

Make your driving carbon neutral in 2013!

StarHub customers can save planet with StarHub Rewards Points

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