Opinion / #carbon tax
Carbon & Climate
Can Indonesia avoid becoming Southeast Asia’s carbon dumping ground?
With one of the weakest carbon taxes globally, the region’s largest economy risks becoming the world's leading enabler of carbon leakage, where emissions aren't reduced, just outsourced to nations with weaker policies.
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.
Transport
Put a price on shipping emissions
While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long way toward advancing this objective, while generating much-needed revenues for climate-vulnerable developing countries.
Carbon & Climate
Could the low-carbon economy bill re-write the Philippines’ future?
House Bill 7705, the low carbon economy bill, could help the climate-vulnerable nation seize the economic opportunities that come with decarbonisation.
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Malaysia’s new voluntary carbon market disappoints
26 January 2023
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The EU’s carbon border tax could hurt developing countries
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The case for carbon import taxes
19 February 2021
Carbon & Climate
Getting the social cost of carbon right
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Top 10 priorities for President Biden to tackle the climate crisis
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Carbon & Climate
The energy transformation is not happening fast enough
8 October 2019
Carbon & Climate
Carbon offsetting: the frequently asked questions
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Policy & Finance
High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore
16 May 2019
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