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Q&A: How China’s ‘two new’ policy aims to help cut emissions
China’s central government listed “boosting consumption and stimulating domestic demand” as its first “major task” for 2025, at the recently closed “two sessions”.
Carbon & Climate
New dams cast doubt on Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects
Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects. The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating into these same forests.
On the first World Glacier Day, experts urge Asia's businesses and policymakers to act this decade to slow glacier loss and ice melt, which remains “out of sight, out of mind” despite the region's extreme vulnerability to rising sea levels.
Energy
Tariff wars may strengthen China’s clean energy supply chain ties with developing nations: GIC
Despite near-term volatility, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund sees closer trade ties between China and developing countries as a long-term tailwind for investments into clean energy technologies.
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