Policymakers must discard the 'grow now, clean later' model, attract investment in renewables and collaborate, according to a former senior advisor for the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Indonesia.
The financing gap for infrastructure projects might have come under the spotlight recently, but experts at the Cities: Possibilities 2024 forum say the key barriers to building better cities are not money or the lack of technical solutions, but political cycles that reward short-termism.
While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long way toward advancing this objective, while generating much-needed revenues for climate-vulnerable developing countries.
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Shania Scotland
Road emissions are the leading contributor to transport emissions across the Indo-Pacific, surpassing those from shipping and aviation.
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James Goldie
EB Studio
With alternatives such as sustainable aviation fuel still too expensive and low in demand for the aviation industry to consider, carbon offsets could be a way to reduce emissions – if used right. EcoSecurities and the International Air Transport Association tell the Eco-Business podcast how airlines can ensure compliance when new regulations become mandatory
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.
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In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.