KUALA LUMPUR: The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) must continue to be guided by and reflect the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities. This, the Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Ministry (MESTECC) said, is in light of different national circumstances, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thailand will affirm its commitment to mitigating the impact of climate change at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid. Paitoon Mahapannaporn, the deputy director-general of the Department of Asean Affairs, said Thailand will urge all parties to enhance their mitigation and adaptation actions by implementing […]

In a rural area of northern Cambodia, rice husks are used as fuel to generate electricity for local communities otherwise dependent on highly polluting diesel generators. The project is financed by individuals and companies on the other side of the world who buy carbon credits – each worth a tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2)-equivalent – […]

Climate Change Consciousness week is held in November through the proclamation by President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo, through my recommendation as Presidential Adviser on climate change, to raise awareness and generate action to respond to global warming threats. This year, its observance becomes even more significant because an Emergency Climate Alert for a higher ambition to […]

ON A Sunday afternoon in September, hundreds of people gathered on the cobblestones at Yangon’s bustling Bogyoke Aung San Market waving signs and posters and chanting slogans such as “System change, not climate change” and “We want climate justice”. They were among the 7.6 million people around the world who took part in the first […]

JAKARTA — Indonesia must stop building new coal-fired power plants by 2020 if it wants to do its part to cap global warming under the targets of the Paris climate agreement, new analysis shows. The country is one of the few still actively planning and constructing new plants, putting it on a trajectory to miss […]

Excessive reliance on hydropower, severe droughts combined with rising seas destroy the Mekong River delta, threatening livelihoods of millions. By Tom Fawthrop The swirling currents of the once mighty Mekong, shrunk by drought and increasingly crippled by dams point towards an unprecedented crisis of water governance along the more than 4,900 kilometers of southeast Asia’s […]

NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR (27 November 2019) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $195 million financing package for a project that will develop climate-resilient and market-oriented infrastructure and livelihoods in 2,942 villages in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady, Chin, Sagaing, and Tanintharyi regions. This will help reduce rural poverty and strengthen the villages’ climate and […]

University curriculum in Southeast Asian varsities generally creates silos between energy and climate. Imparting energy-climate knowledge to our youth is integral to transforming the present state into a low-carbon future. The first net-zero energy building on National University of Singapore’s Kent Ridge campus is located within the School of Design & Environment, and was designed in […]

A series of key reports released over the past month have proven just how ineffective global efforts to address climate change have been. Greenhouse gases (GHG) keep on rising, and the planned production of fossil fuels provides countries with no chance of achieving the 2015 Paris Agreement – a treaty ratified by 184 countries which […]