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The 2025 APEC Meeting: Opportunity For South Korea to Step Up
The sluggish global emissions reduction progress and the worsening climate emergency necessitate all hands on deck. South Korea, which has historically been among the biggest climate laggards, can change course and help lead Asia towards a cleaner and more sustainable future.
Renewable Energy
The Cost of Electricity in Australia: Can Renewables Finally Bring Prices Down?
Australia's energy crisis is deepening, with electricity bills soaring 27% above inflation in just two years. While ageing coal plants and high gas prices are the primary culprits, evidence shows renewables are already helping to curb wholesale costs. The nation's challenge is to accelerate the build-out of renewable infrastructure to secure long-term affordability and stability.
Climate Governance at an All-time High But Challenges Remain
Analysing the progress made in the decade after the Paris Agreement, DDP experts find that climate governance has put us on the right trajectory. However, a lot of work is left, and countries need to scale and accelerate their efforts to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis and unlock economic growth and resilience along the way.
Fossil Fuel
Natural Gas in Australia: A Shrinking Role in a Renewable Era
Australia’s looming gas shortage and the push to expand LNG exports risk locking in a fossil-fuel-heavy path just as renewables and storage capacity rise. A renewables-led transition, supported by grid modernisation and strategic storage, offers a lower-cost, more secure path to energy independence and climate goals. Policymakers face a defining choice: double down on gas or accelerate a diversified, zero-emissions future.
Why Global Plastics Treaty Talks Failed?
The failure of the INC-5.2 Geneva talks highlights how vested interests, particularly petrostates, continue to block meaningful global action on plastic pollution. With plastic production surging—contributing nearly 5% of global emissions—and microplastics infiltrating ecosystems and human health, urgent leadership and policy shifts are critical.
Region
China’s Green Manufacturing Industry Brings Massive Investments to 54 Countries
A new database reveals that a rapid acceleration in overseas investment by Chinese green technology manufacturers is reshaping the global clean-tech landscape and bringing economic benefits to over 50 countries worldwide, with ASEAN attracting the most capital.
Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh: The Economic Impact
Bangladesh’s foreign direct investment in power and energy has entrenched fossil fuels, leaving renewables a mere 3% of electricity and worsening energy poverty and overcapacity. Policy hurdles, land conflicts and biased incentives have stalled a green transition, heightening economic and development risks.
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