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Mark Dennis Joven

Policy & Finance

The Philippines will push to make loss and damage fund ‘meaningful’: climate finance rep

Mark Joven, who steered negotiations for the Philippines to host the loss and damage fund board, speaks to Eco-Business about the nation’s role in helping to rachet up pledges for the climate-vulnerable, as COP29 nears.
Solar panels in Indonesia

Energy

Financing Indonesia’s energy transition can happen beyond sluggish JETP deals – here’s how

Experts say that rerouting subsidies and implementing a better tender process for renewables can help Indonesia reduce its dependence on coal and other fossil fuels.
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Energy

Killing them softly: Southeast Asia’s cautious quest to phase out its coal fleet using transition credits

This special report looks at how a coal plant in Batangas, Philippines, could become the world’s first to be retired using the novel class of carbon credits. Are the methodologies sound, and how will just transition plans be implemented?
Typhoon Rai/Odette

Policy & Finance

What is parametric insurance and why is its demand growing in Asia?

Parametric insurance helps minimise losses from climate-related disasters, to which Asia is particularly vulnerable. In Southeast Asia, this has been used to insure against typhoons, earthquakes, and crop losses.

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11 June 2024

Bali power lines

Energy

Huge financing gap for grid infrastructure as investors see unattractive returns: Indonesia’s state utility

6 May 2024

Suralaya Power Station among houses

Energy

ADB backs Indonesia with US$600 million new coal funding despite climate pledge: report

19 March 2024

Thailand Covid

Policy & Finance

Which Southeast Asian nations are best prepared for pandemics?

5 March 2024

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Energy

Will floating solar prove pivotal in archipelagic Philippines?

27 February 2024

Steelmaking

Manufacturing

EU carbon border levy could hurt Asian developing countries, yet do little to cut emissions: ADB

6 December 2023

Ravi Menon at COP28

Policy & Finance

Price carbon at US$100 now and many transition financing mechanisms won't be needed: Singapore central bank chief

9 November 2023

Marija Ralic

Carbon & Climate

How tech companies can fund and scale climate projects in APAC

3 October 2023

Coal power plant in Jepara, central Java, Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Can ‘transition credits’ make Asia’s early coal phase-out more economically viable?

1 August 2023

Cirebon plant worker 2014

Energy

No model to follow for early coal-phase out: ADB regional director

24 May 2023

epira protest

Policy & Finance

ADB’s bid to expand private sector financing for climate goals reignites worries about lack of social safeguards

31 March 2023

Phong Dien Solar PV Park in Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam

Energy

A US$200 billion opportunity in Southeast Asia lies in solar, two-wheeler EVs, batteries: McKinsey report

11 February 2023

Aerial view of HK central business district

Policy & Finance

Trade body ICMA pushes back on ‘hard regulation’ on greenwash in transition finance

16 November 2022

Joko Widodo and Masatsugu Asakawa

Policy & Finance

Indonesia unveils initiatives to speed up its energy transition

30 September 2022

sri lanka fishers

Policy & Finance

ADB’s safeguard policy lacks transparency and aspiration: rights groups

12 July 2022

Oil production in Russia

Policy & Finance

COP26 signatories must shift US$28 billion annually from fossil fuels to deliver climate promises

13 June 2022

A rock dove that collided with a wind farm power line in Kutch, Gujarat

Energy

Poor planning of renewables in Asia is hurting biodiversity, say conservationists

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