GreenBites

The world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, Indonesia plans to tighten restrictions on coal miners and build an industrial park that generates energy from renewables. In this episode, we also cover the hope for Vietnam’s IUU fishing issue, a suspended clean energy plant in China and a controversial China-funded climate project in Thailand. 

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China unveils the details of its green transition towards carbon neutrality starting with reforms and incentives given to major polluting industries.  A fragile climate victory prevails in Indonesia’s court despite the country’s ambiguous and often contradictory position on domestic deforestation.  The cane toad, a species globally introduced into farmland for pest control, is starting to become a problem in Taiwan.

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This week we close our coverage of COP26 with some main takeaways, and discuss two new green innovative projects in Asia: a net-zero emissions airport in India and lab-grown seafood in Singapore.

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Talks at COP26 have finally begun starting from the first week of November, here’s a catchup on what has been discussed on the table so far. 

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Things are looking dire as COP26 is starting.  This week we look at the UN emissions gap report released ahead of what many describe as the world’s last best hope to curb emissions.  Singapore is exploring geothermal energy, a promising renewable that’s been around for a while and comes at a high cost.  Lastly, we cover a development for electric vehicles: how there is some hope on how standardizing certain practices could lead to a healthier secondhand market.

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This week, we explore methane emissions in Turkmenistan, what they are and what is being done about them; a concerning document leak ahead of COP26; and more extreme weather forecasts for Northern China.

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This week, we touch upon a few important points to expect from COP26 happening at the end of the month, the struggle for China to balance out its new climate commitments with its ongoing urban development goals, and COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference.

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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to a Japanese scientist who has dedicated his academic life to studying global warming and climate change. A restaurant has decided to embrace the ongoing heavy floods in Thailand by offering meals in the floods. Indonesia is keen to increase the use of palm oil in jet fuel, but what does that mean for the environment? In the Philippines, environmental groups are protesting against two gas facilities’ construction plans that will happen in a region that spans across dozens of marine protected areas. Find out more in this episode of GreenBites.

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Greta Thunberg made a landmark speech in Milan, calling out world leaders for their lip service in mitigating climate change. Cambodia’s expansion of coal plants go opposite the world’s direction, seemingly proving Thunberg’s fears. In this episode, we also cover Indonesia’s illegal wood timber trade, and Southeast Asia’s climate education.

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A year after pledging carbon neutrality by 2060, China made another climate commitment at the UN General Assembly to stop funding coal projects overseas.  Following a year of Covid-related slumber, climate protests are back on the global agenda of activists.  Also, we will be launching a new audio documentary series on marine noise pollution: Asia’s Noisy Oceans. This new season will be featured on our main Sustainable Asia podcast, and in this week’s GreenBites, we will be sharing a little sneak peak of the content.

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