Placing Asean on stronger footing in a net-zero future
South-east Asia should take a collaborative approach to strengthening carbon pricing regimes and developing carbon markets.
WITH the dust settled from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), efforts in 2022 must turn to the hard work of implementing pledges made by countries and corporations at that meeting.
In Singapore, an early January session of Parliament featured an extended discussion on raising carbon taxes, building carbon markets and creating green jobs.
This signals both the country's green transition ambitions and that it is on a positive trajectory to achieve them. This has elicited 2 kinds of responses.
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