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The bulk of funding will be used to address intermittency and variability of renewables in off-grid areas, says Asian Development Bank’s energy director Keiju Mitsuhashi. The Philippines alone will require $10 billion to improve its domestic grid.
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Asian carbon border levy the ‘lowest-cost pathway’ to decarbonise heavy industries: report
Enacting an Asian Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism involving Australia, Japan, China, Singapore and South Korea is the "most cost-effective way" to spur industrial decarbonisation and ease reliance on public subsidies, says think tank Climate Energy Finance.
Policy & Finance
Setting personal politics aside: Governments, corporates to form new company aimed at ‘fixing blended finance’
State leaders from Germany, Canada, global corproations and institutional investors called for standardisation of blended finance in order to speed up financial flows for sustainable development. The company, to be launched later this year, aims to develop specialised blended finance vehicles.
Carbon & Climate
One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change
An international court’s opinion that greenhouse gases are an ocean pollutant is already being used in the fight against climate change.
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Can pandemic pact avert Covid chaos in next crisis?
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From Nigeria to Pakistan, TB testing 'in a coma' after US aid cuts
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China is Southeast Asia’s biggest public funder of clean energy with US$2.7bn in investments: study
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