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Policy & Finance
Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative on the brink of a green shift?
Renewable energy projects have yet to appear in droves, but new coal power projects have largely been halted.
Clean energy transport firms emerge as some of the region's most sustainable companies. Four of them are on the Corporate Knights' Global 100 index for the first time. The number of Asia Pacific firms on the index rose to 19 this year.
Climate adaptation of industry and infrastructure is a matter of national concern after extreme weather battered China’s manufacturing centres this summer.
China is to start a feasibility study for the Tibet-Nepal Railway through the fragile Himalayas, but there are concerns that environmental impacts are not being considered.
Policy & Finance
More trains through Indian forest reserve, more animals at risk
#rail Opinion
Asia’s poorly regulated urban growth impacts the economy and the environment, putting pressure on public spaces, transportation, garbage disposal, and air pollution. Self-contained, self-sufficient urban communities can solve the chaos.
Policy & Finance
Metros push up land values—so why not create a triple win?
In Asia's growing megacities, an infrastructure finance gap is slowing mass transport development, resulting in thousands of hours wasted in horrendous traffic. Land value capture could unlock finance, writes ADB's Bambang Susantono.
Lifestyle
Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue
Part of an industry that produces 8 per cent of global emissions, tourism operators and destinations are oblivious to the climate risks they are buying into, writes Griffith University's Susanne Becken.
Transport
Four ways our cities can cut transport emissions in a hurry: Avoid, shift, share and improve
Transport-related emissions have increased nearly 60 per cent since 1990. Swinburne University of Technology's Hussein Dia outlines four strategies to cut emissions and fight climate change.
Carbon & Climate
Debate: carbon tax, an optical illusion
#rail Videos
In a bid to ease population pressure on Sydney and Melbourne and revive regional economies, an ambitious private sector plan aims to build eight new cities in inland Australia and connect them with a high speed rail—all without a cent of public money.
The Chinese industrial city hopes to become a model of sustainability for other metropolitan areas in China through the Urban Infrastructure Initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
The city of Suzhou in China clinches the biennial Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize for balancing sustainable economic development with cultural conservation, showing cities in China and other developing countries that urban challenges can be addressed responsibly.
University of Glasgow students with Bauhaus Luftfahrt conceptualise the Horizon System, an eco-friendly train-plane transport network to be used 37 years from now
