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Vehicle charge zones: too high, and driver detours can increase emissions

November 25, 2021 by James Sallee

Vehicle congestion charge zones are a way of taxing drivers for the emissions they create. They have great potential to steer polluters towards shorter and/or fewer journeys, and towards cleaner fuels. But it's full potential that has gone mostly untapped. Most “cordon zones” found in big cities like London, Stockholm, Milan and Singapore keep the rules very simple. Journey length is rarely, if ever, taken into account. Importantly, no one is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: cordon, emissions, london, Milan, pollution, Singapore, Stockholm, transport, US, vehicles, zones

What is your nation’s “deforestation footprint”? When imports cut down trees somewhere else

April 27, 2021 by Ayesha Tandon

Behaviour change is now inextricably linked to the transition and must be part of the world’s emissions reduction strategy, and there are many different types of relevant behaviour and ways to measure the impacts. One is to look at deforestation, caused by chopping down trees to meet our consumer needs. To grasp whose behaviour has to change we need to appreciate to what extent deforestation in places like Brazil, Canada, Liberia, Vietnam etc., … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment Tagged With: BehaviourChange, Brazil, China, consumers, deforestation, emissions, Germany, imports, Japan, Singapore, US

Asia’s record Gas prices expose the need for faster market reform

February 2, 2021 by Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil and Gergely Molnar

After record lows in mid-2020, Asian spot prices for LNG rose tenfold to reach record highs in January 2021. This volatility is an obstacle to the development of the gas infrastructure that’s essential to the region where demand for gas is growing, explain Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil and Gergely Molnar at the IEA. There were multiple causes for the price spike, including the cold winter, limits to nuclear and coal generation, and outages at regional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: Asia, China, gas, India, infrastructure, Japan, Korea, LNG, markets, prices, Singapore

Floating Solar: can it help ASEAN reverse coal’s continued rise?

July 13, 2020 by IEEFA

Floating solar farms may be gaining traction in Asia. Capacity is still small: by 2019 the big players Japan and China had a combined floating photovoltaic (FPV) installed capacity of 1.3GW. But the ASEAN countries that had virtually nothing before 2019 now have over 51MW and have planned in another 858MW. A report by Sara Jane Ahmed and Elrika Hamdi at IEEFA explains why FPV is looking better and cheaper at balancing out peaks and troughs than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: China, coal, FloatingSolar, gas, grids, hydro, Indonesia, infrastructure, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, solar, Thailand, Transmission, Vietnam

Coal exit: top Asian banks join Europe, U.S.

May 27, 2019 by Tim Buckley

Around the world, cheaper renewables, improved technology, and risks over reputation, financial performance and the environment are driving finance away from coal. In the early days it sometimes looked like “greenwash”, but over time commitments have ratcheted up to make it a reality. Europe and the U.S. have already made a good start, and Asia is now catching up. As renewables get cheaper nobody wants to be left holding billions in stranded … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Investment Tagged With: China, coal, India, investment, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand

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