More than 60 Asian CSOs call on ADB to clarify details of its coal retirement mechanism
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) must delay soliciting financial support for its coal buy-out scheme in Southeast Asia at COP26 until it has addressed a number of practical concerns about this proposal, including the risk it could undermine an ambitious, swift, and just transition from coal in targeted areas, an alliance of non-governmental organizations from […]
Asian Countries Gear Up for COP26 Climate Summit
Asian leaders are heading to Scotland where COP26, the most important global summit on climate change since the one that produced the 2015 Paris agreement, opens this weekend, after being postponed last year by the coronavirus pandemic.
Are Southeast Asian nations meeting their climate commitments?
Southeast Asia is among the world’s most at-risk regions when it comes to the impact of global warming. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in its most recent report that the region is facing rising sea levels, heat waves, droughts and increasingly intense rainstorms.
Analyzing drivers of renewable energy development in Southeast Asia countries with correlation and decomposition methods
Shift to renewable energy in Southeast Asia is patchy – IPCC
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found in its latest report, Southeast Asia faces rising sea levels, heat waves, violent storms and reduced river flows due to reservoir construction and water extraction.
Asian Insider: Asia’s energy crisis | Asean snubs Myanmar
Asean has made the unprecedented decision to exclude Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from the grouping’s summits next week.
ADB boosts 2019-2030 climate financing goal to $100 billion
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will boost its climate financing goals by US$20 billion to a new target of $100 billion for the 2019-2030 period, and aims to launch its concept for retiring coal-fired power plants at the COP26 climate conference in Scotland next month, the lender’s chief said on Tuesday.
