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Latest news and updates on the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop28), which will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between November 30 and December 12, 2023.
Elephants wade through flood waters to help bring relief supplies to villagers in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on October 6, 2024. Photo: AP
Climate change

Opinion | Asia can’t afford to wait for the US to wake up to its climate duty

As the US walks away again, Europe, China and others need to fill the climate reparation funding gap, not out of charity but responsibility.

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Climate change

Opinion | Can China, India step in to fill climate void left by Trump’s America?

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Climate change

Opinion | Asia is emerging as an unlikely champion in race to net zero

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Climate change

Opinion | Cop29 is Azerbaijan’s moment to step into the global sunshine

The UN climate conference will shine a spotlight on the major oil producer’s energy transition, peace efforts with Armenia and geocritical location.

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People walk near the Baku Olympic Stadium, the venue of the Cop29 UN climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 18. Photo: Reuters
Climate change

Outside In | Nature needs saving but where will the West find the money?

However leaders feel about biodiversity and global warming, there is almost no money where their mouths are.

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US-China relations

US-China progress sparks hope for Cop29, Azerbaijan says

‘Positive signals’ after talks between the two superpowers has raised hopes for a breakthrough, the host country’s chief negotiator says.

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Hong Kong environmental issues

Opinion | Hong Kong can take a leaf out of the EU’s book on decarbonising buildings

The EU’s net-zero plan for buildings is a good model. For a start, Hong Kong needs a mandatory energy label for buildings as a basis, and a combination of information, incentives and regulation to succeed

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A view of buildings in Sham Shui Po last year. In Hong Kong, buildings account for over 60 per cent of carbon emissions, much higher than the global average. Photo: May Tse
Climate change

Opinion | China’s and India’s coal habits are slowing down the green transition

In the short run, China and India are showing no real intention of cutting coal dependence. Instead, both are building or proposing new coal-fired capacity, never mind their climate pledges.

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Pope Francis

Pope’s Easter message renews call for Gaza ceasefire, release of hostages

‘With their eyes children ask us, why all this death and destruction?’ said the 87-year-old, who also condemned ‘walls of selfishness and indifference’.

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US-China relations

Outgoing US climate envoy hopes to maintain dialogue with Chinese counterpart

John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua reached a bilateral agreement in November that helped catalyse the “Dubai consensus” between nearly 200 countries to transition away from fossil fuels.

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John Kerry, the outgoing US climate envoy, speaking in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: State Department Washington Foreign Press Center
Climate change

The View | Is it time for ‘developing’ China to start funding UN climate aid?

As a developing country, China does not have to give directly to UN climate funds, such as the loss and damage fund. This has fuelled a debate over outdated categories.

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A protest calling for aid for developing countries at the Cop27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 12, 2022. Cop28 host the UAE has pledged to contribute US$100 million to the loss and damage fund. Photo: AP
Business of climate change

China drives regional demand for sustainable finance amid Beijing’s carbon ambitions

Investing in firms and industries to help fund their transition to a low-carbon future is set to become a major theme in 2024, as demand for sustainable finance products in China and the Asia-Pacific region will remain robust despite elevated interest rates, fund managers and analysts said.

Israel-Gaza war

Opinion | After a hot 2023 – from wars to the weather – may 2024 be cooler

It has been a hot year in too many ways, with temperatures rising and wars unfolding, and a good deal of hypocrisy in evidence.

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Climate change

Opinion | Cop28’s bounty of climate promises – what did we really get out of it?

What we got was incrementalism when deep and radical solutions are needed. Politicians are fiddling while the world burns. Nevertheless, Hong Kong can play a key role in how carbon trading is implemented and in financing the energy transition.

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Cop28 President Sultan Al Jaber with his thumbs up at the end of the UN climate summit on December 13 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photo: AP
Climate change

Rice prices, dying fish, EVs: Asia’s most important environment stories of 2023

With scorching heatwaves, Fukushima waste water worries, plastic promises – and a disappearing mackerel – Asia found itself at the sharp end of environmental concerns this year.

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Farmers harvest paddy rice stalks by hand on a farm land in Kalasin province, Thailand, in November. El Niño conditions have clipped rice production in Asia this year. Photo: Bloomberg
Climate change

Letters | Cop28: so are we anywhere near the end of the fossil fuel era?

Readers discuss two key factors the UN climate change conferences have overlooked, the proposal for a third medical school in Hong Kong, ways to improve minibus services, and the prioritising of students’ mental health.

Hong Kong economy

Letters | Why not move loss-making Hong Kong Disneyland to Sanya?

Readers discuss the benefits of relocating the struggling theme park in Hong Kong, addressing the underlying causes of student stress, guarded optimism over the Cop28 agreement, and taking chronic fatigue syndrome seriously.

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Climate change

Opinion | US and EU trade barriers not only hurt China, they also derail climate action

Europe’s carbon border tax is shifting the burden to poorer nations while the West’s redrawing of supply chains is preventing China from cheaply and efficiently supplying the global green transition.

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Illustration: Craig Stephen
Japan

Japan to help Asia curb emissions, but will co-firing extend fossil fuel use?

Japan sees co-firing as a potential emissions-reduction tool for the country, which lacks land to install renewables, and also for nations across Southeast Asia.

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Business of climate change

Is this really the end of the fossil-fuel era? Cop28 hails a historic transition

In this issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look back a the 28th United Nations climate change conference, Cop28, which took place in Dubai.

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Climate change

Opinion | Rich nations won’t meet energy transition goals by shunning Chinese firms

Despite pressing Cop28 emission ambitions and China’s leading position in the clean energy sector, the US and Europe are shutting out Chinese products and firms. But no other country can produce the clean energy products needed as quickly or on the scale that China is doing.

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Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, on December 2, the third day of Cop28 in Dubai. Photo: Bloomberg
Climate change

Opinion | Climate action? First, we must stop fighting among ourselves

Achieving a balance between prosperity and environmental stewardship remains a formidable challenge, compounded by climate change denial. But the biggest obstacle to tackling global warming may well be our enduring hostilities with one another.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Climate change

‘Weak tea’: climate scientists push back against Cop28 cheer

A UN climate deal that approved a call to transition away from fossil fuels has been hailed as a major milestone and a cause for at least cautious optimism.

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Video | Nations adopt first-ever climate deal on fossil fuels

Climate change

Asia at risk as Cop28 deal falls ‘far short’ of acceptable fossil fuel phase-out

Critics say the deal is still severely lacking when it comes to addressing the climate concerns of developing nations.

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A woman whose family members are trapped under rubble wails after a landslide washed away houses in Raigad district, western Maharashtra state, India, in July. Photo: AP
Climate change

Cop28 climate summit adopts world-first ‘transition’ from fossil fuels

Deal in Dubai marks the first time that all fossil fuels are addressed in 28 years of climate summits.

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The deal is a diplomatic win for the UAE and Cop28 president Sultan Al Jaber, pictured with other officials. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

My Take | China’s role in spotlight as climate talks in Dubai enter final phase

Beijing’s climate chief has denied that the country is blocking talks about whether to commit to ‘phasing out’ fossil fuel use.

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Business of climate change

Hong Kong’s Archireef ties up with FAB to restore Middle East marine ecosystems

Hong Kong marine tech start-up Archireef partners with First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), to deploy terracotta tiles that will help restore the degraded reef ecosystem off the Arabian Gulf coast.

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