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.
Solar process heat in industrial systems – A global review, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Malaysia’s climate plan is high on ambition, but concerns linger over execution: Experts
BANGKOK: When Malaysia enters negotiations at global climate change talks beginning at the end of this month in Glasgow, it will be with momentum from a sweeping and ambitious national plan for a greener and cleaner future.
Vietnam to Indonesia: the Asian countries hit hardest by China’s clampdown on new coal-fired power plants overseas
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to the United Nations that China will no longer build coal-fired power plants overseas will leave many projects awaiting financial closure at risk of cancellation.
