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Southeast Asia needs to scale-up its renewables. IEEFA's Grant Hauber explains how the region can unlock investment and cut volatility.
Across the border, neighbour Shenzhen has the world's first and largest fully electric bus fleets. But Hong Kong has not been able to ramp up EV deployment for its public transport system fast enough to solve the city's air pollution problem.
Before US tariffs, an AI-fuelled data centre boom had spurred tech giants to make big renewables bets in the region. Mounting uncertainty is prompting a "wait and see" approach, though the long game hinges on local policies, say experts.
Polisi & Kewangan
Southeast Asia’s green startups face headwinds amid funding slowdown
Southeast Asia’s clean-energy startups like Vietnam’s SmartSolar and Indonesia’s Swap Energi are expanding but face growing challenges due to waning government support and shifting global investment trends.
Polisi & Kewangan
China releases its first green sovereign bonds in London
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A massive increase in solar power generation capacity is already putting Australia on the fast track to a 100 per cent renewable energy future.
Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have a sizeable presence in the global REE supply chain – now a geopolitical focal point – but although they may have substantial reserves, their REE production levels are still lower than China's.
Chinese and American firms are seeking to export their autonomous driving technologies to Southeast Asia. The signal lesson is that their data-driven models require sensitivity and adaptation to the region’s diverse markets.
Energy transition research addressing the range of equity concerns across India’s socioeconomic groups and regions is rare. This needs to change.
Bandar-bandar
The climate policy pendulum
Pengangkutan
Making an electric car battery, minus China
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Pengangkutan
What makes an electric car clean?
Studio EB
Polestar, a new entrant to Singapore’s electric car market, hopes to woo consumers by going the extra mile in sustainable design.
In gridlocked, smoggy Southeast Asian cities, change is afoot to electrify transport and clear some of the world's most polluted skies. This video documents the pockets of hope for e-mobility around the most climate-vulnerable region.
Battery-powered air taxis could be a common sight on the city-state's skyline by 2021.
Studio EB
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.
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Trump 2.0 may prove to be a "bump in the road" for climate action, but banks and investors in Asia see growth and opportunity in the region for decarbonisation as climate risks grow.
Pengangkutan
‘Decarbonisation does not cost seconds on the track’: Mercedes F1 sustainability head on the race to net zero
Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.
GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.
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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.
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Why 2025 could be the year of the electric vehicle in developing countries
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
New United Nations, UK project to support shift to electric mobility in Thailand
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Sustainable transport needed to overcome ‘last mile’ in development in Asia and the Pacific
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MioTech
Are EVs meeting ESG standards?
British Embassy Manila and Eco-Business
Electric vehicles in the Philippines: Business opportunities, market barriers, and policy signals
Eden Strategy Institute, LLP
Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore
