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Global Witness warns that mining for green energy is fuelling conflict and human rights abuses in Asia and elsewhere, urging tougher standards and protections.
Battery storage is key to boosting global renewable power but there are obstacles to scaling up capacity.
Policy & Finance
Donald Trump is president. What does it mean for climate change?
He slammed the Democrats' 'Green New Scam' – now Donald Trump will use his second term to roll back US climate action.
Utilising both of these energy storage options is the most cost-effective approach for the country, write three experts.
Policy & Finance
Can China’s BRI bonds spur sustainable development?
#batteries Opinion
China’s decision to ramp up spending could accelerate a shift and help achieve long-term climate goals by bringing forward the peak in fossil-fuel use and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Policy & Finance
How the EU can secure a sustainable supply of critical minerals
Neglecting to address the mining industry’s human rights violations and environmental destruction could undermine the bloc’s efforts to ensure access to raw materials and to mitigate climate change.
Who’s leading the race to develop electric vehicles in Southeast Asia? The answer is complicated.
Policy & Finance
Globalisation is greener
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world.
Policy & Finance
Smarter climate finance for the developing world
Manufacturing
The next global resource crisis
#batteries Videos
There is consensus that coal needs to be retired early in Asia, but the mechanisms for financing the phase-out are not clear. This mini-documentary examines how transition credits work and whether they can fund Southeast Asia's equitable switch to clean power.
The increasingly competitive dynamic duo of solar photovoltaic plus battery storage is taking energy markets by storm.
Transport
EVs abroad, pickups at home
Automakers are touting overseas investments in electric vehicles, even as they lobby for lower fuel standards in the United States.
Climate change is not all doom and gloom, it's a business opportunity. Young aspiring entrepreneurs are growing profitable businesses that are helping to make the planet a more habitable place.
#batteries Podcasts
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In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.
Solar, wind, carbon capture, nature-based solutions—what are the technologies needed to combat climate change? Eco-Business asked clean energy entrepreneur Hendrik Tiesinga where the smart money is going.
Pro-miners argue that deep-sea mining is essential to enable the energy transition. On the Eco-Business podcast, Sian Owen of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition argues why nature's last frontier should be protected, not exploited.
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