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美国 新闻
Activists warn a new US-Indonesia trade deal could accelerate mining, deforestation and fossil fuel use, with weak, nonbinding environmental safeguards.
A lauded international agreement to protect the high seas has launched into a very different political world than the one that created it.
As oil and gas firms reap windfall profits from wartime price spikes, regional climate advocates urge governments to tax gains and channel the funds into renewables and grid upgrades to secure Asia’s energy future.
Indonesia plans to rezone large parts of Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra for carbon trading and luxury tourism to raise conservation funds.
美国 观点
Vietnam has limited room for manoeuvre on the energy front as supply tightens, but is proactively playing the hand it has been dealt.
While the rest of the world is mainly concerned about the energy disruptions caused by the Iran war, the Gulf countries are more anxious about the Islamic Republic’s threats to their desalination facilities. If the US attempts to seize Kharg Island, it could spell disaster for the region's "saltwater kingdoms."
Iran’s wider goal is to raise global energy prices, including those for Gulf oil-dependent Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines and Vietnam.
If the current war creates a prolonged oil crisis, there will be more downward pressure on oil use – and an equal acceleration in China of electric car production at home, with an associated surge in exports.
美国 视频
As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.
Researchers have invented a tiny, laser-powered bug that takes off, lands and aspires to hover wirelessly.
The increasingly competitive dynamic duo of solar photovoltaic plus battery storage is taking energy markets by storm.
Declining snowfall threatens billions in lost revenue.
美国 播客
碳与气候
Jeffrey Sachs: China is unequivocally the world’s climate power today. Asean’s opportunity is next.
独家
The economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network told the Eco-Business Podcast how China’s green industrial and financial capabilities can help accelerate Southeast Asia's transition to net zero.
With clear climate policies and actions, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are filling the vacuum left by the United States. This article features the second half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the climate COPs.
Getting climate finance on the agenda for COP30 negotiations is expected to be contentious. This article features the first half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the annual United Nations climate conference.
The region has been historically underrepresented in leadership at global standard setters like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Sharath Martin, who holds positions in global accounting body ACCA and WWF-Malaysia, tells the Eco-Business Podcast what must change.
美国 新闻发布稿
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
New FAO publication describes global fish fraud and the tools to combat it
World Economic Forum
Chief economists warn of weak growth as economic environment shifts
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB lowers economic growth forecast for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Navigating trade headwinds: Asia and the Pacific must reinforce trade resilience amid global uncertainty
美国 研究
Asia Research and Engagement
Seafood sourcing risks in Asia
Asia Research and Engagement
Empty nets: Overfishing risks
Wunderman Thompson
Wunderman Thompson launches regeneration rising: Sustainable futures
AlliedCrowds - AlliedOffsets
Carbon offsetting in higher education
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