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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.
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20 December, 2024
An employee works on solar photovoltaic modules for export at a factory in Sihong, in Jiangsu province, on September 3. Strong state support and huge private investment have made China’s solar industry a global powerhouse, but it faces new headwinds including punitive tariffs and a brutal price war at home. Photo: AFP
Climate change

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

The region’s journey to carbon neutrality highlights both the challenges of moving away from fossil fuels and the great potential for progress.

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Climate change

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

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Climate change

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

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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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While last year’s Cop28 summit in UAE struck a landmark deal to phase out fossil fuels, Cop29 is charged with putting a price tag on how much developing nations will need to weather the mounting impacts of climate change. Photo: AP
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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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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Pope Francis has presided this weekend over Easter vigil celebrations at the Vatican. Photo: AP
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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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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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.

Wind turbines in operation in Yilan County, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Photo: Xinhua
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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Pedestrians walk down a footbridge, in Central, Hong Kong, with cooling pads on their foreheads during a hot day in June. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
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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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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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.

United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell embraces Cop28 president Sultan al-Jaber after the final gavel at the UN climate summit on December 13 in Dubai. Photo: AP
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.

Visitors pose for photographs in front of the Castle of Magical Dreams at Hong Kong Disneyland on November 20. Hong Kong Disneyland is the smallest Disney resort campus in the world. Photo: AP
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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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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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. Photo: Xinhua
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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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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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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Cop28 president Sultan Al Jaber at the end of the UN climate summit in Dubai on Wednesday. Photo: AP

Nations adopt first-ever climate deal on fossil fuels

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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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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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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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A climate activist group has been accused of pulling its punches when it comes to China. Photo: AP
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.

Hong Kong marine tech start-up Archireef has announced a partnership with the Middle East’s biggest bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), to deploy the firm’s 3D-printed terracotta tiles to restore the degraded reef ecosystem off the coasts of the Gulf nation. Photo: Archireef
Climate change

Cop28 climate summit runs overtime as fury mounts on fossil fuels

The world’s climate negotiators on Tuesday haggled beyond a host-imposed deadline for a deal as at-risk nations voiced fury over a proposed compromise that stops short of phasing out fossil fuels.

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Rethinking the climate agenda

COP28 director general explains climate finance and China’s role in the energy transition

Ambassador Majid Al Suwaidi, the director general of COP28, says China represents Asia as a regional green finance hub, helping emerging-market countries tackle climate change.

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