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Taiwan’s Tech Companies Can Lead The Energy Transition

Taiwan’s tech companies are struggling to decarbonise. But the opportunity to lead the island nation’s...

2024 Trends in the Asian Solar Market: Growth and Opportunities

With China's global leadership in clean power deployment and technological innovation and Vietnam's solar market experience, Asia has the blueprint to champion the green energy transition. Will the region grab the opportunity?

Clean Energy Investment in 2024 Twice Amount for Fossil Fuels: IEA

The IEA’s World Energy Investment 2024 reveals that while clean energy spending is at record levels, the investments still fall short of what is required for a 1.5°C-aligned world. The agency also highlights stark market contrasts and calls for more ambitious policy measures to bridge the financing gap.

G20 Summit 2024: Agenda and Promising Early Signs

The G20 Summit 2024 agenda promises to focus on advancing climate crisis solutions and the clean energy transition, addressing social inclusion, poverty and hunger, scaling up green capital for developing countries, reforming MDBs and discussing taxation on billionaires.

S. Korea’s Offshore Wind Potential and Getting Locals Onside – Podcast

Energy Insights speaks with Mark Hutchinson, the director and chair of the Southeast Asia Task Force at the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

Is Australia’s Brown Hydrogen Export Project Destined to Fail? [Op-Ed]

The HESC project, led by an industry consortium, seeks to annually produce 40,000 tonnes of hydrogen from brown coal by 2030 for export to Japan. Can the project surmount the key challenges hindering hydrogen exports? Paul Martin shares his views.

How to Decarbonise Transport: A Challenging But Realistic Mission

Decarbonising the transport sector will be challenging, especially in the air and maritime segments. However, progress in road transport shows that bringing technical, commercial and scalability barriers is possible if there is strong policy support.

Affordable and Clean Energy: How to Achieve?

In a special report, the International Energy Agency notes that accelerated clean energy deployment will...

LNG Projects in the Philippines: Share of San Miguel Corporation

The Philippines continues its liquefied natural gas (LNG) development trajectory despite its cost, environmental impact and widespread disapproval. Manila-based conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is spearheading this development.

Greenwashing on the Agenda at Japan Energy Summit 2024

The Japan Energy Summit, held recently, included sessions on pioneering innovative energy technologies and accelerating decarbonisation in its agenda. Unfortunately, these sessions pushed fossil fuel narratives instead.

South Korea’s East Sea Gas Development Will Not Strengthen the Country’s Energy Security [Op-Ed]

South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol administration recently announced the exploratory drilling of potentially massive oil and gas reserves in the East Sea to address the country’s natural gas demand. However, with the country's natural gas demand declining, large oil and gas developments in the East Sea could become stranded assets.

A Recap on the G7 Climate Commitments in 2024 – Podcast

In this episode of Energy Insights, we recap the G7's climate commitments and the G7 environment ministers' meeting in Turin, Italy.

Climate Change Laws And Policies In The Philippines

The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries for climate impacts. As a result, the country has implemented laws and policies to implement climate mitigation and adaptation into its core processes. However, these policies must be updated and enforced to create long-term change.

Heat Wave in Pakistan 2024: A Scorching Reality

Near-record temperatures have led to an extended heat wave in Pakistan in 2024. This follows several other record-setting heat waves over the last decade. Climate change is exacerbating this issue and highlights the urgent need for more decisive climate action.

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