Accommodating the gas sector risks diluting standards and discouraging new pools of green capital.
21 September 2021 (IEEFA Asia): Incorporating gas-powered generation as a sustainable investment…
Financial firms including British insurer Prudential, lenders Citi and HSBC and BlackRock Real Assets are devising plans to speed the closure of Asia’s coal-fired power plants in order to lower the…
Some of the world’s biggest financial and investment firms are hatching a plan to speed up coal power plant closures in Asia, according to an exclusive report published yesterday by the Reuters news…
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units
Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new…
Global asset managers — including JP Morgan Asset Management Inc. and Fidelity International Ltd. — will urge five Asian power generators to curb greenhouse gas emissions in an initiative coordinated…
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta – plagued by pollution, flooding and heatwaves – tops risk assessment ranking.
Of the 100 cities worldwide most vulnerable to environmental hazards all but one are in…
Oceans are ‘new frontier’ in electricity production, says firm tasked with carrying out project.
A growing push in Singapore to reduce the city-state’s greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate…
Solar Philippines submitted a project description for scoping to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) for its Batangas 3 Solar Baseload Plant…
Two floating solar projects forming a cluster that is claimed to be Southeast Asia’s largest floating install have started commercial operations in Vietnam.
The Ho Tam Bo floating solar project and…
An estimated 67 people are dead, floodwaters in some places have reached two stories high, millions were without power, and rescuers were scrambling to keep up after Typhoon Vamco became the third…
Wind and solar PV could attract more investment than any other power generation source in the Asia Pacific region in the next decade as the two technologies become cost-competitive with coal by 2030…
Wind and solar, the country’s cheapest source of new generation, also overlooked
Pakistan risks locking itself into building more power capacity than it needs as a result of over-optimistic energy…
Kicking the fossil-fuel habit completely was hard for AC Energy, the energy arm of Philippine industry giant Ayala Corp., to do overnight even if it had been investing in renewable energy (RE) in…
India has a crucial role to play in promoting clean energy and climate action as the world looks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday. …
At least 100 people killed and hundreds of homes destroyed as seasonal rains cause worst flooding in Parwan province.
Heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 100…
Muscat: Oman’s largest solar power plant that can power up to 33,000 homes and remove 340,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from the country’s footprint per annum is likely to be up and running…
SINGAPORE: Imagine generating renewable energy via solar panels on your rooftop and being able to sell this energy to others.
All this could soon be a reality and a step forward for Singapore as it…
BANGKOK: For Bangkok’s “Spiderman Team”, dangling on ropes and rappelling down the city’s tallest buildings is just one of the risky parts of their job.
High above the choked streets, on many days…
Packages marked as ‘earrings’ spark biosecurity concerns and global investigations into origins.
There is not much that Jan Goward does not grow in her small Eastbourne garden. “I grow everything,”…
Bangladesh’s minister of power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, surprised energy watchers recently when he said the country is planning to “review” all but three of 29 planned coal plants…