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Energy

Time for Vietnam to resolve its renewable energy legal quagmire

In Vietnam, an impasse over feed-in-tariffs for renewable energy producers threatens foreign investors’ confidence in government policies.
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Carbon & Climate

Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty

This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts.
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Policy & Finance

Businesses can’t build resilience without nature strategies

Businesses must develop nature strategies and implement them swiftly to mitigate risks and build resilience in a changing world.
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Water

AI wants our water

While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or electricity.

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23 October 2025

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Energy

Energy trade in Southeast Asia: The need to address resource nationalism

10 October 2025

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Energy

Why Asean's coal promises keep colliding with reality

3 October 2025

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Cities

Rights on demand: Asia’s gig economy gets a legal upgrade

30 September 2025

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Transport

Filling the gap in liability, compensation for alternative fuel spills from ships

16 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Is China’s energy system ready for the AI boom?

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Policy & Finance

Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot

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Policy & Finance

Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?

12 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

How green industrial policies are advancing in the Asia-Pacific

9 September 2025

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Energy

Beyond green data centres: Leaner, smarter AI for Southeast Asia’s sustainable digital future

25 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash

11 August 2025

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Food & Agriculture

Feed the world but feed it well: Why food systems must be reformed

8 August 2025

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Waste

Stop letting a small minority derail the plastics treaty: WWF

5 August 2025

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Cities

Does Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, fit into the president’s long-term vision?

28 July 2025

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Carbon & Climate

The World Court finally opens the door to 'climate reparations'

20 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Green crime goes global

19 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them

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