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Carbon & Climate

An intelligent trade-off: AI as a double-edged sword in Southeast Asia’s climate battle

Although artificial intelligence (AI) offers positive benefits for Southeast Asia’s climate battle, the region should not look at its usage through rose-tinted glasses. Without careful consideration, such systems may inadvertently undermine and be counterintuitive to the very climate goals that they aim to achieve.
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Carbon & Climate

From Kuala Lumpur to Belém: can Asean lead its people and the planet?

As Malaysia takes on the Asean Chairmanship in 2025, it has a unique opportunity to champion a bold, legally binding regional framework for environmental rights. Such a framework would protect the people most affected by environmental degradation and hold corporations accountable for transboundary climate harm.
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Cities

Developing countries can lead in medical innovation

Hepatitis C treatment is no longer prohibitively expensive in the Global South because Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative developed ravidasvir – a low-cost antiviral. Such breakthroughs are possible for other neglected diseases if low- and middle-income countries agree to act collectively.
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Manufacturing

Southeast Asia’s potential role in rare earth elements diversification

Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have a sizeable presence in the global REE supply chain – now a geopolitical focal point – but although they may have substantial reserves, their REE production levels are still lower than China's.

All Malaysia Opinion

8 April 2025

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Transport

Autonomous driving and Southeast Asia: Will it hit the road?

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Food & Agriculture

Migrant agriculture workers: potential resource for Southeast Asia’s food-resilient future

6 March 2025

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Transport

Will Proton's electric vehicle spur new local supply chains – and displace the old?

20 February 2025

'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

Carbon & Climate

How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop

10 February 2025

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Manufacturing

Fast fashion has a serious coal problem

4 February 2025

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Policy & Finance

Can Japan provide stability to Southeast Asia amid US uncertainty?

27 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance

12 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

Malaysia, Indonesia’s journey in pushing for green finance

27 December 2024

COP29 Activists put up their arms

Carbon & Climate

The world cannot wait: Multilateralism is only hope to fight climate change

13 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Making carbon trading work: Exploring collaboration between Japan and Asean countries

12 December 2024

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Cities

Sea level rise a clear threat to Malaysia

6 December 2024

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Food & Agriculture

Asean should drive action for agri-food sector after COP29

29 November 2024

Malaysia COP29 Representation

Carbon & Climate

Malaysia's future COP delegation needs more representation from climate-affected communities, not corporations

27 November 2024

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Waste

From COP16 to INC-5: Will Asean champion the fight against plastic pollution?

21 November 2024

Samling deforestation

Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

11 November 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia needs serious money to get to net zero

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