ADB secures 144MW Vietnamese financing

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has secured a $116m (€95.1m) green loan to build and operate three 48MW wind farms, totaling 144 MW, in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.

The route to a zero carbon Indonesia

With the nation among the world’s top ten greenhouse gas emitting states, energy analysts from three policy advisories have spelled out how Jakarta could hit net zero by mid century rather than 2070, as currently planned. However, the energy transition would require uncharacteristically long term thinking.

AFD provides US$100 million green credit to Vietnam

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has signed an agreement to receive a long-term US$100 million credit line for environmental protection, climate change response and green growth as part of French development agency AFD’s Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (SUNREF) initiative.

Cambodians displaced by dam struggle to retain their identity

“My ancestors are buried here,” 23-year-old Yem Thavdy points to a spot on the Sesan River, a tributary of the Mekong in Cambodia’s northern province of Stung Treng. She rows the boat across an expanse that was land before the US$781 million Lower Sesan 2 dam flooded it in 2017.