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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 Philippines Opinion

12 March 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Transition offsets: no silver bullet for closing down coal

6 February 2025

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Policy & Finance

Rethinking economic planning in the Philippines

4 February 2025

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Policy & Finance

Can Japan provide stability to Southeast Asia amid US uncertainty?

17 January 2025

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Cities

Philippines’ car-centric society: Time to switch lanes

13 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

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

11 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Redefine the romanticised narrative of the 'resilient Filipino' for broader climate policy transformation

6 December 2024

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Food & Agriculture

Asean should drive action for agri-food sector after COP29

27 November 2024

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Waste

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

11 November 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia needs serious money to get to net zero

5 November 2024

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Food & Agriculture

At COP29, food banks can demonstrate how Southeast Asia protects the planet while feeding more people

29 October 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Why COP29 should not be ignored

4 October 2024

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Carbon & Climate

The people's vision for regional decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

16 September 2024

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Energy

Modernisation, energy transition: demands from the Filipino imagination

10 September 2024

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Waste

Flooding and waste management in the Philippines: stop blaming the poor

5 September 2024

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Policy & Finance

Climate impacts are crippling insurance and Big Oil must pay up

4 September 2024

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Energy

Rethinking coal: lessons from the Song Hau 2 termination

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