Regional Haze Casts a Pall on ASEAN’s Influence
Melinda Martinus
The return of smoke haze underscores a sobering reality: while ASEAN has policies designed to combat it, the problem continues to occur.

Melinda Martinus
The return of smoke haze underscores a sobering reality: while ASEAN has policies designed to combat it, the problem continues to occur.
Renard Siew
Southeast Asia leaves swathes of potential carbon credits stranded and unrealised. ASEAN should embrace the Core Carbon Principles to bolster integrity and growth of its carbon markets.
Muhammad Fahmi Nurcahyo
A new generation born of disaster survivors is keeping their hometowns’ memories alive despite state erasure.
Mohd Yunus
A nature-positive approach to agriculture, and specifically palm oil plantations, can marry mandates with production.
Bao Tan-Hoang Nguyen
Governments in our region and beyond must plan today for tomorrow's floods, in a warming world. Regret can be minimised, if not eliminated.
Peh Ko Hsu|Siwage Dharma Negara
Indonesia has managed to surpass targets for renewable energy. The problem, however, is that green sources of energy continue to exist with their brown counterparts.
Bao Tan-Hoang Nguyen
How can Vietnam design a successful system to combat flooding?
Vinod Thomas
The vast minority of middle-income countries graduate to high-income status. Past strategies that prioritised physical capital must give way to a quality of growth approach premised on investment in human and natural capital.
Yichen Wang
Chinese waste-to-energy companies are expanding into Southeast Asia, where the need for such services has grown.
Paul Teng
Food system decarbonisation is one of the main pathways chosen by ASEAN Member States to meet their obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. Concurrent with this is the transformation of food systems from high-emission, carbon energy-intensive systems to low-carbon emission systems with improved resilience, farmer livelihoods and environmental health.