Asia Pacific‘s leading platform for sustainable development
Opinion / #climate tech
China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while sidestepping tougher cuts and accountability.
COP30 delivered gains on climate finance and forests but stalled on fossil fuel phaseout – exposing both the limits of consensus talks and the growing role of action outside negotiations.
Even as political denial and regulatory paralysis grip parts of the West, a different message has been resounding across Asia – it is not retreating, but rising to the occasion.
Although artificial intelligence (AI) offers positive benefits for Southeast Asia’s climate battle, the region should not look at its usage through rose-tinted glasses. Without careful consideration, such systems may inadvertently undermine and be counterintuitive to the very climate goals that they aim to achieve.
全部climate tech Opinion
27 二月 2025
10 二月 2025
9 一月 2025
1 十一月 2024
20 八月 2024
9 七月 2024
最多人阅读
-
![Semiconductor Malaysia]()
EB工作室 At the Semiconductor Sustainability Summit 2025, industry leaders said Malaysia’s push to double its global chip share could … -
![Food_Waste_Market_India]()
India’s colossal food waste problem is both a symptom and a significant accelerator of the climate crisis. -
![Loy Yang B coal-fired power station, a 1,200-megawatt plant that supplies 20 per cent of power to the state of Victoria. Sembcorp says the plant's "flexible and low-cost baseload electricity will be required to support the integration of renewables into the grid."]()
The Singapore firm has said it would buy the Chow Tai Fook Enterprises-owned firm, but there are no … -
![COP30_Make_Polluters_Pay_Caes]()
Lawsuits are reshaping climate justice following landmark 2025 rulings, with cases rising in the Global South. -
![A city view of Singapore]()
New mapping of climate firms shows region rich in solutions but constrained by grids, finance and coordination. -
![COP30_Climate_Leadership_China]()
China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while …
