Chinese energy companies are looking overseas for profits, bringing promises to poorer countries of BRI funding for coal-fired power plants. These countries could account for some 50 per cent of global emissions by 2050.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
World Bank sounds warning about Vietnam’s gloomy water situation
The combination of threats, particularly flooding, worsening pollution, and competition among sectors for water in the dry season, could cut GDP by about 6 percent annually by 2035.
Yangon to focus on construction of deep sea port, new SEZ
Some 50,000 acres of land area near Thanlyin, Yangon, has been earmarked for the development of both the port and SEZ. “We need an international standard deep sea port as 90 percent of national sea trade relies on Yangon’s ports.
Development could hurt Ayeyarwady River: environmentalists
“Damage has been done to some extent to the river’s ecosystem by urban development and economic expansion. We need to protect the river immediately,” said the minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation in Mandalay Region.
Field notes from “Cambodia’s beating heart”
Nicknamed Cambodia’s “beating heart,” the vast Tonle Sap Lake is Southeast Asia’s largest. Now, the country is trying to stop the loss of its lifeblood: the fish that thrive in these waters.
Organisations concerned over rivers’ water quality
The water quality in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong rivers threatens the livelihood of about 3.4 million people in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam because of human activity and hydropower dam development.