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Mismatched financing tenures, risk premiums and the demand profiles of data centre operators are among the many concerns of the country’s solar power providers.

The view of Pulau Poto from Cempedak, with PT BAI's aluminium processing complex over the horizon. Image: Robin Hicks / Eco-Business

独家 The organisation launches with startup funding from private island resorts in Indonesia's Riau archipelago. It aims to raise awareness of the benefits of a protected marine park in an area impacted by industrial activity.

Khushi Baby is a 10 year-old digital health non-profit that tracks maternal and child health in rural India.

After a brutal period that hurt startups and companies with exposure to the US, green shoots are emerging in Asia in some sectors.

Emerging markets face gaps in equity financing, currency risk protection and scalable investment structures, say experts, who warn that climate projects will not be bankable without stronger policy support and financial reform.

作者 Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

作者 Robin Hicks

作者 Taejun Kang

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ESG is meant to align environmental, social and governance priorities. But companies are increasingly being forced to choose between competing issues as ESG starts to break apart. How should companies rethink their approach? 作者 Kaushik Sridhar

The Covid-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Iran have reframed the issue of sustainability, which is now as much about sovereignty and economic security as it is about planetary health. Countries and companies that fail to recognise this have everything to lose in the coming years. 作者 Bruno Bouygues 和 Bertrand Badré

Malaysia's longstanding system of fossil fuel subsidies was built to stabilise prices, but these cannot hold up in prolonged crises of war, supply chain disruptions and volatile fuel markets. 作者 Ganesha Pillai

Citizens in Tuvalu wait for cargo to be unloaded

Increased climate adaptation finance must deliver results where they count — in the lives of the poor. 作者 Ana Toni, Kevin Watkins

作者 Peiyuan Guo

作者 Sarah Stroup 和 Jennifer Hadden

作者 Kaushik Sridhar

作者 Amol Mehra 和 Claire Harbron

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Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup presenting how much plastic his organisation has captured.

The 31-year-old engineer responds to criticism that his non-profit focuses downstream of the bigger problem with a "quick fix" solution, and claims he can clean the ocean in a decade by intercepting river trash.

The impact documentary exploring Asia's mounting waste crisis – and its solutions – is now streaming exclusively for Eco-Business subscribers.

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

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Funding for climate-related solutions has slowed down and it’s a ‘tough game’ for startups, said those familiar with the climate tech space at The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale 2025. What can founders and innovators do to bring an idea to commercialisation? And is Singapore an attractive-enough testbed?

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Luanne Sieh has been group chief sustainability officer at CIMB Bank for the last eight and a half years

The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

As Southeast Asia eyes regional power trading to accelerate decarbonisation, veteran solar entrepreneur Frank Phuan unpacks the political, economic and logistical hurdles of moving clean energy across borders.

EB工作室 Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant in Southeast Asia, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.

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