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Climate change

ASEAN Business

Touchstone Partners launches US$10 million green fund, tapping Net Zero Challenge to attract global startups to Vietnam

In domestic refrigerators, HFCs have almost been eliminated in favour of isobutane. Those in supermarkets and convenience stores are shifting to ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Opinion & Features

BBQ gas is helping to cool a warming planet

European Commission vice-president Kaja Kallas will hold a high-level event on the sidelines of the Fourth EU-Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum on the protection of critical maritime infrastructure.
Opinion & Features

Europe and the Indo-Pacific: Partners for a resilient future

India has long argued that industrialised nations should carry a greater decarbonisation burden.
ESG

Rich nations must hit net zero and pay up on climate, India says

Indigenous Brazilians are demanding climate action, including forest protection.
Opinion & Features

Asean and global emerging markets step up at COP30

Developed countries committed US$26 billion of adaptation finance for developing nations in 2023, says Unep.
ESG Insights
ESG Insights

Issue 171: COP30 turns spotlight on adaptation; MAS pushes forward on transition credits

In Demak alone, three villages have been lost to rising waters in the past decade, with one completely submerged last year, forcing more than 100 families to relocate.
ASEAN Business
Asia Unpacked

‘Fighting the sea every day’: Indonesia’s US$80 billion bid to save sinking Java coast

Governor of California Gavin Newsom - seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate - blasted US President Donald Trump for twice leaving the Paris climate accord and for “doubling down on stupid” through his support of Big Oil.
International

‘Trump is temporary’: California governor Newsom seizes COP30 spotlight

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk pointed out seven or eight big tech companies now boast more wealth than the entire economies of even industrialised nations.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Concentration of corporate power a ‘huge’ concern: UN rights chief

A forest is engulfed in flames as a wildfire rages near Fontjoncouse, southwestern France, Aug 6, 2025. The summer of 2025, marked by two heatwaves, was the third hottest on record in France since French weather forecast agency Meteo-France began measuring temperatures in 1900.
ESG

Earth cannot ‘sustain’ intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30

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