Brunei News
The initiative is philanthropy-led and will extend beyond traditional Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to cover conservation of more existing ocean ecosystems. Less than 3 per cent of the region's national waters are under formal protection but a deadline to meet a global conservation target looms.
As the Philippines builds environmental case vs China, scientists need shared data to protect the sea.
Carbon & Climate
Southeast Asia’s highly anticipated environmental rights declaration ‘watered down’, say critics
Civil society groups express concern over the draft declaration’s failure to adequately acknowledge “Indigenous peoples”, among other shortcomings.
Carbon & Climate
Investors push for carbon pricing mechanisms, but developers resist
Regulation is a crucial factor that investors consider before funding carbon projects, experts said at a recent event in Malaysia. Developers argue that the system does not need to be perfect to kickstart projects.
Policy & Finance
Diversity, equity and inclusion: Asia urged to look beyond gender
Brunei Opinion
Carbon & Climate
The people’s vision for regional decarbonisation in Southeast Asia
How the region’s populations view decarbonisation as the energy transition occurs can inform stronger leadership and better policymaking at the elite level.
Food & Agriculture
La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?
The expected advent of the La Niña might portend a double-edged sword for affected regions.
Energy systems that rely on coal are not inherently secure as commodity market fluctuations can challenge affordability, while tripling solar and wind capacity in Asean would only negligibly impact system operations.
For Southeast Asia, it need not be a binary choice between maintaining status quo or pushing for 'degrowth'. Reducing emissions without neglecting job growth imposes lower social costs, and can be a pathway to take for the region.
Carbon & Climate
Strengthening Asia's voice for sustainable development
Policy & Finance
Catalytic capital holds the key to Southeast Asia's green transition
Brunei Videos
Southeast Asian nations are racing to bring clean, affordable power to their people, but one country is outrunning them all. How can states make their renewable energy transition a success?
Carbon & Climate
Borneo study draws lessons from children’s perceptions of forests
247 children between the ages of 10 and 15 living in the Indonesian provinces of East and West …
Brunei Press Releases
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Southeast Asia: Foreign investments resilient despite global economic uncertainties
Asian Species Action Partnership
New roadmap sets the course for urgent conservation of freshwater fishes in Southeast Asia
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Asean needs to focus on boosting quality of life to build resilient, inclusive community: ADB report
NEU Battery Materials
NUS GRIP Deep tech start-up, NEU Battery Materials raises S$800,000 in seed funding
Exponential Roadmap Initiative
New collaborative platform to engage with suppliers to halve GHG emissions before 2030
Brunei Research
BirdLife International
State of the World's Birds 2018—taking the pulse of the planet
