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‘Trilateral cooperation’ with China has a surprisingly rich history. Does it have a future too?

Government-installed solar panels on Sumba Island Indonesia

The mechanism could also financially benefit the state utility company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and attract private investments without burdening the state budget to scale renewable energy.

Solar panels on a commercial building in Penang, Malaysia2

Across the region, private investments in green projects saw a substantial 43-per-cent increase year on year, led by solar deals. But progress is uneven and Southeast Asia still struggles to close an annual funding gap of US$50 billion by 2030.

In the fast-growing Bangladesh capital, sun-scorched activists demand protection for city's last green oases.

SciDev Net

By Ng Wai Mun

By Kostantsa Rangelova, Yang Muyi

By Hans Nicholas Jong

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We need innovative solutions to allow small island nations to manage debt and build climate resilience as global funding declines. By Emily Wilkinson and Ali Naseer Mohamed

There are worries the construction of a hydropower dam across the transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet will intensify both water scarcity and flooding. These smaller-sized river basins are often neglected in academic research. By Mehebub Sahana

Energy transition research addressing the range of equity concerns across India’s socioeconomic groups and regions is rare. This needs to change. By Dr Aishwarya Ramachandran, Animesh Ghosh and Vaibhav Chowdhary

Weakening the World Bank and other multilateral development banks that have a large United States presence could present an opportunity for a little-known, relatively new Chinese-led international organisation like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. By Tamar Gutner

By Mirza Sadaqat Huda

By Jon Truby

By Masatsugu Asakawa

By JC Punongbayan

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EB Studio From sponge cities to coastal forests, Asia is seeking ways to work with nature and prepare for the risks in a warmer-than-expected future. This Eco-Business video looks at what else cities need to do to strengthen climate resilience.

Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted. It will premiere in Singapore and screen on the sidelines of the upcoming COP28 climate summit.

EB Studio Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.

Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.

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Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.

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.

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