Opinion / #hydropower
India’s clean energy transition is often portrayed as prohibitively expensive. But a new study finds that actual financing needs are far more modest and concentrated in just four sectors, including steel and cement.
The danger of the Indus Water Treaty collapsing is less about India cutting off water flows and more about the erosion of trust, transparency and data sharing, affecting neighbours including Nepal and Bangladesh. Weaponising water is a perilous strategy that may backfire.
A massive increase in solar power generation capacity is already putting Australia on the fast track to a 100 per cent renewable energy future.
There are worries the construction of a hydropower dam across the transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet will intensify both water scarcity and flooding. These smaller-sized river basins are often neglected in academic research.
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Thai investment in Laos hydropower reveals dire disconnect in the Mekong
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Polisi & Kewangan
China’s climate diplomacy in a turbulent world
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5 April 2022
Polisi & Kewangan
Financing gender-energy access programmes in Asean
29 April 2021
Polisi & Kewangan
Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030
8 January 2021
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Polisi & Kewangan
Amid coronavirus, let's not forget about indigenous people
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