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Is Southeast Asia on track to meet global clean energy targets?

1 day ago | eco-business.com | Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

When countries at the COP28 climate talks signed a pledge to triple renewable energy deployment by 2030, the announcement was welcomed with great fanfare and media attention. Already subscribed? Sign in There's something for everyone. We offer a range of subscription plans. Access our stories and receive our Insights Weekly newsletter with the free EB Member plan. Unlock unlimited access to our content and archive with EB Circle. Publish your content with EB Premium.
America's attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton

1 day ago | eco-business.com | Robin Hicks

The defunding and gutting of scientific research agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States matters to how Asia builds its climate defences, says Professor Benjamin Horton, a climate scientist who spent 15 years working in the US, and recently moved from Singapore to Hong Kong to set up a climate centre at City University. Already subscribed? Sign in There's something for everyone. We offer a range of subscription plans.
Mekong fish corridors mapped for the first time but funding cuts threaten research

3 days ago | eco-business.com | Anton Delgado

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish from a dozen species and implanted them with small electric transmitters before releasing them back into the river. A network of receivers allowed the researchers to follow the migration movements of 81 of these tagged fish during both the dry and wet seasons.
Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres

3 days ago | eco-business.com | Yuan Ye

There were 449 data centres in China at the end of 2023, the most in the Asia-Pacific region. The International Energy Agency (IEA) says in a new report that China accounted for 25 per cent of global data-centre electricity consumption in 2024, the second largest consumer following the US. In common with other countries, China expects the electricity consumption of its data centres to grow rapidly over the next few years, partly as a result of the rise of AI.
Is greenwashing really in decline?

1 week ago | eco-business.com | Robin Hicks

Is it the beginning of the end of the greenwashing era? Already subscribed? Sign in There's something for everyone. We offer a range of subscription plans. Access our stories and receive our Insights Weekly newsletter with the free EB Member plan. Unlock unlimited access to our content and archive with EB Circle. Publish your content with EB Premium.
The future of conservation in a warming world

1 week ago | eco-business.com | Jeremy Hance

About 90 kilometres (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to less than 2,000 people. But it’s not the people that draw Nik Sekhran’s eye. “I enjoy watching the African oystercatchers,” says Sekhran, chief conservation officer at World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid

1 week ago | eco-business.com | William Moore

Philanthropy will never replace public aid, but it can be a powerhouse if we use it right. With global development funding under strain, European aid budgets being redirected toward defence and rearmament, and the United States rethinking foreign assistance altogether, the aid community has been left scrambling. The reactions so far have been of two kinds: calls for philanthropy to fill the gap, and moralising statements shaming governments for stepping back.
‘Not as easy as filling USAID’s gap’: How philanthropies in Southeast Asia are stepping up

1 week ago | eco-business.com | Gabrielle See

The world has been reeling from the devastating impact of the United States president Donald Trump’s abrupt suspension of foreign aid since end-January.
Tariffs will stifle green growth in the Global South: WRI CEO Ani Dasgupta

1 week ago | eco-business.com | Robin Hicks

The biggest issue in conservation and climate finance right now is not the evaporation of aid following the dismantling of America’s overseas aid agency. It’s how to get private capital flowing to the Global South, says Aniruddha Dasgupta, the chief executive of World Resources Institute (WRI). Already subscribed? Sign in There's something for everyone. We offer a range of subscription plans. Access our stories and receive our Insights Weekly newsletter with the free EB Member plan.
Concerns emerge over scaled down loss and damage fund

1 week ago | eco-business.com | Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Civil society organisations expressed concern over the scaling down of a fund agreed at the COP climate talks in 2022 to help vulnerable nations cope with climate risk. Already subscribed? Sign in There's something for everyone. We offer a range of subscription plans. Access our stories and receive our Insights Weekly newsletter with the free EB Member plan. Unlock unlimited access to our content and archive with EB Circle. Publish your content with EB Premium.