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Opinion & Features

What Asia must do better in 2025

This picture taken on October 31, 2023 shows a fisherman looking at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia's Banten province. As countries gather in Dubai for crunch climate talks, the future of polluting fossil fuel coal will be high on the agenda. For some, the age of coal is now clearly over, and Indonesia has committed to moving away from the fuel despite being the world's top exporter. (Photo by Ronald SIAGIAN / AFP) / To go with AFP story Climate-UN-COP28-UAE-Indonesia-coal,FOCUS by Dessy SAGITA and Marchio GORBIANO
ESG

Navigating the new energy frontier: Investors can find opportunities amid the transition

A floating solar photovoltaic (PV) testbed. One flawed idea that has emerged is that trying to move too quickly to renewables is a costly burden and unfair on developing countries. It is, but global warming is unfair to them too.
Energy Week 2024ESG

What is the place of fossil fuels in the energy transition?

Solar farms in Thailand await the passing of a law, which would allow them to sell electricity via transmission lines
ASEAN Business

Thailand’s new government faces tough choices on green energy

The new Mandatory Energy Improvement regime will be implemented in the third quarter of 2025.
Property

‘Energy-intensive’ buildings must improve efficiency or face fines of up to S$150,000

Lessons from the past year’s heatwaves should spur countries to enhance their heat resilience.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Wooing foreign investors? Heat resilience may be a new key factor for cities

The Energy Market Authority will implement power rationing as a "last resort" and measures will be lifted "expeditiously", it said
Economy & Policy

Emergency power rationing among measures for Singapore’s energy security under new Bill

Japan is the only G7 nation that does not have a deadline to phase out the use of dirty fuel.
International

Japan should phase out coal power by 2035, climate group says

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