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Dear sir, I'd like to order some e-vehicles ... 10,000 would do

20 Apr 2018

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola will add 10,000 electric three-wheelers to its fleet over the next 12 months.

Japan has a renewable energy puzzle

20 Apr 2018

As Japan rushes to cut carbon emissions by 26 per cent, campaigners worry that forests and wildlife are being trampled.

'The Beach' off limits as Thais count cost of climate change

5 Apr 2018

Maya Bay, made famous in the film “The Beach”, will be off limits to tourists for part of the year as Thailand seeks to protect eco-systems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl.

Tokyo admits rainforest timber used for stadium

1 Mar 2018

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee has confirmed that 87 per cent of the plywood panels used to build its new national stadium come from southeast Asian rainforests.

Singapore will charge carbon tax from next year

21 Feb 2018

Singapore will charge carbon polluters a new carbon tax from 2019.

Korea real cool, but the games are getting warmer

13 Feb 2018

PyeongChang turned on typical freezing South Korea weather for the first few days of the Winter Olympics … but overall the event is getting warmer.

Indonesia has bold plan to rewet the swamps

2 Feb 2018

A controversial Indonesian project to restore 2.5 million hectares of tropical peatland hinges on sustainable farming.

Local people tackle tide of beach plastic

30 Jan 2018

Local volunteers have collected more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic from a beach in Mumbai.

Climate change drives farmers from Mekong delta

24 Jan 2018

Saltwater intrusion and drought are destroying crops in one of the most fertile places on earth, prompting an exodus of farmers.

Thailand gets $1.1 billion for wind power project

15 Dec 2017

Southeast Asia’s leading solar energy nation -Thailand - could be the frontrunner in wind energy after renewables developer WEH secured funding for the region’s biggest wind power project.

Hyundai building battery bigger than Tesla's

8 Dec 2017

Tesla’s South Australia battery system won’t hold the title of world’s largest for long - Hyundai is building one 50 per cent bigger.

India to add 10,000 e-vehicles to official fleet

24 Nov 2017

India has called tenders for 10,000 electric vehicles as replacements for its official fleet.

Indonesia to roll out 1000 eco-mosques

21 Nov 2017

Worshippers in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, are set to go green with a new initiative that aims to establish 1000 eco-mosques by 2020.

CHOPPER STOPPER: Too much smog for the smog-fighters

16 Nov 2017

An ambitious plan to use helicopters to fight Delhi’s air pollution has been grounded because the aircraft cannot operate in the thick smog.

LEAPING LIZARDS: Giants thrive in wasted oil palm plantations

26 Oct 2017

Of Borneo’s large native scavengers, a giant lizard is the only species that has successfully adapted to the land devastated by oil palm plantations.

How Thailand built a top sustainable stock exchange

20 Oct 2017

Sustainability reporting is not mandatory in Thailand - and yet Thai firms outnumber their Asean peers in the latest Dow Jones Sustainability Indices.

Asean banks need to raise sustainable finance bar

13 Oct 2017

Southeast Asia’s banks have only just started to think about their impact on society and the environment.

India bans Diwali fireworks to tackle Delhi's air pollution

11 Oct 2017

India’s supreme court has banned the sale of fireworks in Delhi during the upcoming Diwali festival, hoping to prevent the usual spike in toxic air pollution levels that accompany the holiday.

Sunny Southeast Asia just doesn't get solar

4 Oct 2017

Southeast Asia has double the solar energy potential of Northern Europe, but the market hype is not living up to the reality on the ground.

Delhi chokes on US exports of tar sands waste

29 Sep 2017

India has emerged as the world’s largest importer of petroleum coke, an oil byproduct that is now a major cause of pollution in the capital.

Palm oil giant makes debut in sustainability index

26 Sep 2017

Singapore palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources has been featured in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the first time.

India is about to embark on stupendous e-car changes

21 Sep 2017

India, the world’s fifth-largest car market is readying for a stupendous transformation: moving completely toward electric vehicles by 2030.

Shrinking glaciers threaten water supply of millions

15 Sep 2017

Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people.

Indonesia chases firms to pay for forest damage

31 Aug 2017

The Indonesian government is struggling to collect fines from companies found guilty of damaging the environment, leaving trashed rainforests and peat swamps to stay barren.

Himalayas hold their ground as world weather gets warmer

31 Aug 2017

Asia’s glaciers are holding out against global warming and are melting more slowly than expected.

In these highlands climate change is a death sentence

30 Aug 2017

Climate change should be taken as seriously as fighting insurgents, say those witnessing the savage impact first-hand.

Climate change threatens Pacific Rim farm trade

29 Aug 2017

The United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a leading role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Coal to power India for decades, says government

29 Aug 2017

Coal will maintain its dominant share of India’s electricity production for decades to come, according to a major report from the government.

COLOURFUL CANINES: Waste gives Mumbai dogs the blues

24 Aug 2017

Authorities in Mumbai have shut down a manufacturing company after it was accused of dumping untreated industrial waste and dyes into a local river that resulted in dogs turning blue.

Drought legacy can be a lingering death

18 Aug 2017

A climate hazard that doesn’t disappear when the rainclouds gather, drought’s lingering death can delay recovery a very long time.

THE IMRAN EFFECT: Pakistanis plant billion trees for their hero

17 Aug 2017

Inspired by national cricket hero Imran Khan, a province in Pakistan has planted a billion trees in just two years.

China puts Tibet's fragile ecosystem in danger

9 Aug 2017

Rising temperatures on the roof of the world make Tibet both a driver and amplifier of global warming. China’s unchecked mining and dam building has to be reigned in.

HOT AS HELL: These heatwaves will kill even healthy people

4 Aug 2017

Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon.

Study links climate change and 60,000 farming suicides

3 Aug 2017

Climate change might have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades.

Solar not cheaper than coal, says former mining boss

27 Jul 2017

India’s future is still tied to coal and fixing woeful inefficient plants will create huge new generation at a price solar cannot match.

India diverts $25 billion away from clean energy

26 Jul 2017

The Indian government is diverting $25 billion earmarked for clean energy to an unrelated policy, a national news site has revealed.

Asian temperature rise could be disastrous

24 Jul 2017

Profligate fossil fuel use could cause Asian temperatures to rise by 6deg , bringing floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions.

Hanoi choking on fumes of five million motorbikes

24 Jul 2017

The roads of Vietnam’s capital have been taken over by the two-wheeled horde, but bringing in a ban by 2030 will be a tough ask.

Asia coal boom bankrolled by foreign money

21 Jul 2017

The much-discussed boom in coal-fired power in south-east Asia is being bankrolled by foreign governments and banks, with the vast majority of projects apparently too risky for the private sector.

Japan to export renewable energy expertise

17 Jul 2017

Japan plans to export its expertise in renewable energy technologies such as low-emitting geothermal, solar and hydrogen power.

Indian utility bets $10 billion on coal power

6 Jul 2017

India's state-run power utility plans to invest $10 billion in new coal-fired power stations over the next five years.

India gets busy and plants 66 million trees in 12 hours

5 Jul 2017

In India, about 1.5 million volunteers have planted more than 66 million trees in just 12 hours as part of a record-breaking environmental campaign.

MODI AND ADANI: Old friends who are laying waste to India

29 Jun 2017

India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?

South Korea to scrap coal and nuclear power

22 Jun 2017

The new President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in has committed his country to phasing out all coal and nuclear power stations suggesting a major change in energy policy for the Asian state.

India and Pakistan scrap over the mighty Indus

15 Jun 2017

Fast-growing populations and increasing demand for hydropower and irrigation are putting one of Asia's great rivers under intense pressure.

Singapore opens sustainability academy

15 Jun 2017

The Singapore Sustainability Academy has been built to highest energy efficiency and green building standards and will serve as the city-state’s sustainability learning and collaboration hub.

Australia
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Warmer seas fuel dangerous ‘weather bomb’ in New South Wales

Today 11:00am

If the storm shapes up as predicted, we can expect to see damage to houses and trees as well as significant beach erosion – especially in heavily populated areas exposed to the storm’s southern flank.

United States
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Clean energy stocks jump after tax on solar and wind projects is removed from Trump’s big bill

Today 11:00am

Shares of renewable energy companies are rising after a tax on solar and wind was removed from the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

China
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Floods swamp cities in Southwest China with more storms due

26 Jun 2025

Citizens in Guizhou and other parts of southern China have been swamped by days of record-breaking rainfall as the East Asia monsoon kicked into high gear over the past week.

Europe
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Brussels to stand its ground on 90% emissions cut by 2040

Wed 2 Jul 2025

The European Commission is set to propose a target to slash greenhouse gas emissions to a mere tenth of the levels seen back in 1990 – but a leaked summary confirms it will offer significant leeway as a sweetener for reluctant EU members.

United Kingdom
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Activists at the June protest unfurled a 15-metre-long in front of the headquarters of WPP, reading "WPP are climate criminals, ban fossil fuel advertising".

Activists protest at London headquarters of global ad giant promoting fossil fuels

Today 11:00am

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

Canada
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Is Mark Carney turning his back on climate action?

23 Jun 2025

The G7 summit in Alberta, hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney, has ended with only passing mention of fighting climate change, including a statement on wildfires that is silent on the pressing need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Pacific
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Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa

Fri 27 Jun 2025

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home.

Antarctic/Arctic
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I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard

13 May 2025

Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?

Africa
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Congo death toll hits 77 after extreme weather brings floods and sinks boats, 107 remain missing

18 Jun 2025

Authorities in Congo said the death toll following devastating floods and separate boat accidents has reached 77, with more than 100 people missing.

South America
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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future

Tue 1 Jul 2025

Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached.

United Nations
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Global climate science body roiled by controversies stoked by Saudis, US

Today 11:00am

The proposed selection of a Saudi Aramco oil company staffer as one of the authors of a key science report has been denounced as “political capture.”

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