According to data compiled by the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) in Vietnam, 18 proposed coal power projects – with installed capacity totalling 20.4GW – are now unlikely to reach financial closure after China’s moratorium.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Fires lit for agriculture boost air pollution in Mekong Region
Reducing fires lit for agricultural management and deforestation, which unduly affect poorer populations, could help prevent 59,000 premature deaths per year.
Are China’s BRI glory days over?
https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/are-chinas-bri-glory-days-over/
Not all trash is equal
Since there is no concrete waste management system in Thailand, Greenpeace suggests anyone who wants to start recycling their trash should contact waste pickers in their neighbourhoods.
Vietnam chooses sustainable approach to development: Minister
Minister Ha held that it’s time to put the recovery of the nature and ecologies at the top place in political, diplomatic and economic agendas, considering it as the criterion and moral standard in the behaviour towards the nature from highest leaders to all people at grassroots level.
What’s behind China’s latest mega hydro-engineering project?
the proposal aims to annually divert 60 billion cubic meters of water from the major rivers of the ecologically fragile Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, including three transnational rivers (Mekong, Salween, and Brahmaputra), to arid Xinjiang and other parts of northwest China.
Thailand’s microgrid plans take shape
The pilot project serves the energy needs of some 5,000 houses or around 50,000 people. It includes an 8 MW development comprising 4 MW of solar PV together with a 1.2 MW hydropower plant, 5 MW of diesel generation and coupled with a 3 MW battery storage system.
New World Heritage Site forest imperils Thai indigenous people
Ethnic Karen community evicted from ancestral site wants to return fear that the new World Heritage listing will bring new threats to their ability to live in harmony with the forest as they have always done.
Carbon pricing insights from Vietnam
The paper finds that low carbon prices of $1.85 and $3.86 per tonne on fossil fuel sources, starting from 2022 and increasing at a real rate of 10 per cent per year, would have the potential to reduce emissions from fossil fuel combustion by about 5.5 per cent and 11.2 per cent respectively, relative to business as usual by 2030.