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• Solar, wind and hydro projects are threatening key wildlife habitats in Southeast Asia, India
  Half the renewable energy projects being planned, that overlap with important conservation areas, are in India, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. Researchers say enough degraded land already exists to support the energy transition.
• The world must not forget climate change
  The Covid-19 pandemic underlines the fact that we are all in this together: no country is immune from major global threats. And the same solidarity between countries and peoples is needed to address the even greater risk of climate change.
• Coal exit will benefit health, wealth and nature
  Human economies still depend on hydrocarbon fuels. But there are ways to achieve a coal exit, cut emissions and protect health.
• Asia Pacific faring poorly on SDGs, marching backwards for two goals—UN
  A surge in carbon emissions and failure to comply with hazardous waste policies are hindering Asia's progress towards the sustainable development goals. The degradation of its environmental resources is 'alarming', says lead author.
• Zero-carbon water pumps turn Pakistan's barren mountains green
  Running only on fast-moving water, the pumps are cheap and easy to maintain, enabling farmers to grow fruit and vegetables.
• Where do renewables stand in a Covid-stricken world?
  The coronavirus is putting nations' clean energy commitments to the test. In the face of unprecedented strain on healthcare and a looming recession, can governments ensure renewables keep the wind in their sails?
• How can the climate crisis cut through the Covid-19 media storm?
  No single event has dominated the international press as much this century. How can climate change, which will likely prove far deadlier than the coronavirus, reclaim the headlines?
• Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests
  Increased access to electricity in the home was much more closely associated with a longer life expectancy than fossil fuel use, new analysis found.
• Efficient energy cuts UK electricity’s carbon output
  The United Kingdom leads the way in cutting carbon output from electricity production, to the surprise of its political leaders.
• Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?
  A team led by researchers at the Netherlands’ Radboud University looks at the emissions of electric versus petrol-fueled vehicles to find out if driving an electric car can really produce lower overall emissions.
• A green reboot after the pandemic
  In addition to threatening millions of lives and the global economy, the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that human societies are capable of transforming themselves more or less overnight. In fact, there's no better time than now to usher in systemic economic change.
• Amid the coronavirus, Asia Pacific must not lose sight of sustainable development goals
  Rising economic prosperity and poverty reduction may not tell the whole story of progress in Asia and the Pacific.
• Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track
  Southeast Asia's wind hero is fast falling from grace as the deadline of its wind power support scheme looms. Unless Vietnam acts now, it risks losing investors and developers as well as more power outages and air pollution, experts say.
• Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds
  JP Morgan has pumped more than the GDP of Finland into fossil fuels expansion since the Paris accord, while Japan's and China's mega banks have also been 'failing miserably' in their response to climate change over the last four years.
• 8 in 10 big polluters off track for 2°C climate target as IEA warns coronavirus could derail energy transition
  43 of the world's 238 highest-emitting listed companies have set emissions targets in line with limiting climate change to 2°C, meaning over 80 per cent of companies are off track on the key goal of the Paris Agreement.
• Will this solar-powered device clean the world's most polluted rivers?
  Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup has unveiled a river-cleaning invention called the Interceptor, which is aimed to to stem the flood of plastic entering the ocean in five years.
• In East Asian first, South Korea announces ambitions to reach net zero by 2050
  South Korea, the world's seventh-largest carbon emitter, is home to energy-intensive industries such as automotives and steel. Its ruling political party wants to end the nation's contribution to climate change.
• Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?
  Are there lessons to be found in humanity's response to Covid-19 that can help us fight climate change? It could push us to fix our financial system, alter our behaviour and make us more resilient, writes Froum for the Future's Sally Uren.
• Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions
  Under Vietnam’s proposed carbon for forest ecosystems services programme, the country’s 100 largest emitters, primarily cement manufacturers and coal-fired power plants, would pay forest communities and landowners to protect and expand forests.
• Asia's love of stinky durian could help power tuk-tuks and phones
  Researchers have used waste from durian and jackfruit to create electricity storage and are hoping it could be used in batteries.