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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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Transport

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

Chinese and American firms are seeking to export their autonomous driving technologies to Southeast Asia. The signal lesson is that their data-driven models require sensitivity and adaptation to the region’s diverse markets.
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Food & Agriculture

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

Farm labourers returning from overseas can, if empowered, form a pool of experienced talent that Southeast Asia’s vulnerable agricultural sector can tap into for food security.

All Myanmar Opinion

29 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

Trump’s Ukraine deal exposes a dirty truth about minerals

13 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

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

18 November 2024

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Carbon & Climate

How climate change feeds our wars

4 October 2024

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Carbon & Climate

The people's vision for regional decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

2 September 2024

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Water

Dry hard: the challenge of storing Mekong rain

23 August 2024

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Food & Agriculture

La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?

14 August 2024

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Manufacturing

Sand mining worsens Mekong's saltwater problem

12 August 2024

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Food & Agriculture

Changing rainfall patterns in the Mekong pose new challenges

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Energy

Pro-coal arguments in Asean are based on false assumptions and unproven solutions

20 May 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Strengthening Asia's voice for sustainable development

3 May 2024

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Waste

Beating plastic pollution in three steps

28 March 2024

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Energy

How to unlock clean energy in South and Southeast Asia

26 February 2024

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Policy & Finance

Catalytic capital holds the key to Southeast Asia's green transition

21 December 2023

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Policy & Finance

How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet

13 October 2023

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

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Cities

Breaking the vicious cycle of haze and climate change in Southeast Asia

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