Eco-Business

Climate tech financing has dwindled in recent years, while investor doubts on alternative proteins persist. In a difficult year for sustainability technologies, Eco-Business spotlights some of the innovations that still made the headlines.

Mostly solar and mini-hydro systems have surged sixfold since 2020, but they need support from bigger players to scale, a new analysis finds.

Mountain top wind turbines on China's Jintang Island in Zhejiang Province

An analysis incorporating new utilisation data released last week implies that China's emissions may have peaked in 2023 and debunks recent speculations that Beijing's record solar and wind installations have led to grid congestion.

EB Studio While there is potential for clean energy to one day power Asia Pacific, high costs and the intermittent nature of renewables stand as barriers in the way. Businesses, especially in the tech sector, must channel efforts towards solutions that provide round-the-clock clean energy.

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Leaders from all quarters must collaborate to remove the barriers to affordable clean energy, such as insufficient and expensive battery energy storage systems. Doing so could ignite demand, stimulate innovation and trigger a market transformation. By Ravi Venkatesan

The deep ocean can be used for carbon dioxide removal from our atmosphere. Here are the opportunities, risks and constraints. By Phil Williamson

Southeast Asia’s power sector is set to strike out in a new direction this year, driven by energy security needs and new opportunities for collaboration as some of the world’s biggest polluters step up climate action. By Nadhilah Shani and Gabriella Ienanto

Renewables could spur the post-pandemic recovery in Asia. But as this year’s climate change conference approaches, the region's energy planners have a lot of catching up to do. By Tim Ha

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By Yongping Zhai and Yoonah Lee

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EB Studio Battery technology could reshape the global energy sector, and this year's #Innovate4Climate summit in Singapore will focus on the cutting-edge innovation that could change the energy landscape.

Yolk Station, a South Korean solar energy company, has installed a renewable energy solution in a remote Kenyan town that can also tackle the problem of child labour.

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.

Panasonic will film live the total solar eclipse happening on March 9 and air the event from Ternate, Indonesia using power from the sun stored in its portable energy storage system.

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EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the third episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how the shipping industry is charting a course to a low-carbon future.

EB Studio The once abundant peat forests of Indonesia's Kampar peninsula have been deforested to half its size over the last two decades. Is there hope in saving the country's largest remaining forest reserve?

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