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Carbon & Climate

DeepSeek’s AI disruption: Implications for global climate policy

China's DeepSeek demonstrates that AI can be trained in a more efficient way and has enormous implications for Big Tech, which will be pressured to justify efforts to reduce climate impact.
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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s frustration with the state of climate finance

The financing gap is huge, but time is short. Given the inadequacy of a promised new climate finance goal, Southeast Asia should look beyond UN-led conferences to crowd in other sources of capital to tackle the climate crisis.
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Carbon & Climate

Making carbon trading work: Exploring collaboration between Japan and Asean countries

Asean's growing carbon trading initiatives present vast opportunities for emissions reduction and economic growth, but equitable frameworks and robust regulations are critical to their success.
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Policy & Finance

What Trump’s re-election means for ESG in Southeast Asia

If policymakers and ESG proponents fail to ensure that the ESG agenda is equitable and credible – directly benefiting working class and rural communities – the credibility of ESG will deteriorate further.

All Singapore Opinion

14 October 2024

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Cities

Asbestos: Singapore's toxic past is catching up with it

4 October 2024

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Carbon & Climate

The people's vision for regional decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

3 October 2024

An aerial view of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in Cambodia, image by Gabrielle See

Carbon & Climate

Stop waiting around for carbon market integrity – we're all responsible

23 August 2024

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Food & Agriculture

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?

13 August 2024

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Policy & Finance

Singapore's banks and regulators can do more to drive a regional coal phaseout

12 August 2024

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Energy

Pro-coal arguments in Asean are based on false assumptions and unproven solutions

4 July 2024

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Transport

The wrong road to lower transport emissions

3 July 2024

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Transport

EVs alone won't save us from climate catastrophe

3 June 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia’s growth strategies: business-as-usual, 'degrowth' or a third way?

31 May 2024

A row of newly-launched hydrogen buses queuing to serve Kuching commuters on January 21, 2020

Energy

Make hydrogen, not war

20 May 2024

Eco-Business Changing Course exhibition

Carbon & Climate

Strengthening Asia's voice for sustainable development

3 May 2024

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Waste

Beating plastic pollution in three steps

2 May 2024

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Policy & Finance

The elusive inflection point in impact investing

30 April 2024

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Transport

Rising costs can encourage a better kind of tourism

25 March 2024

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Water

Singapore's race to self-sufficiency in Malaysia water stoush

8 March 2024

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Policy & Finance

Degrowth is a dead end

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