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  • 19 Sep 2023
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    Global Stocktake: Unlocking trillions for climate action

    Frank Jotzo , Michelle Lyons
    The Paris Agreement’s assessment of climate policies finds some good news, but massive room for improvement.
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push

    Joseph Webster , Zoe Leung
    Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction.
  • 14 Sep 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Sustainability

    More than just rice: Asia’s food supply anxieties

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Most economies in Southeast Asia are net food importers. Is now the time for Australia to step up its export production?
  • 18 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region

    Andrea Fahey
    Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours.
  • 3 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Hard labour managing geo-economic fragmentation

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces tough choices from aid to energy in a new world of government intervention in trade and industry.
  • 1 Aug 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Quad
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Something fishy about China’s anger over the Quad’s open ocean plans

    Denny Roy
    Even illegal fishing is politicised amid growing China-US tensions.
  • 24 Jul 2023
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific

    Melanie Pill
    A concept that will become ever more familiar – in the courts, too – with more action needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change.
  • 19 Jul 2023
    • Resource security
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability

    What Norway might learn from Nauru after a massive phosphate find

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    A handful of countries meet demand for an essential fertiliser ingredient – and geopolitical competition complicates the equation.
  • 17 Jul 2023
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    The cost-benefit of turning “dirty” shipping clean

    Joe Lo
    The engines of global trade pump out enormous amounts of carbon and vulnerable Pacific islands are fighting for a change.
  • 11 Jul 2023
    • China
    • Antarctica
    • Sustainability

    Charting new paths for Antarctic protection despite China’s resistance

    Claire Young
    Too much would be lost by tearing up existing agreements. There are other ways to entice Beijing to cooperate.
  • 6 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability

    Economic diplomacy: Power shifts with Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Australia and Indonesia may be riding together in a new electric diplomatic limo, but they still have separate roadmaps.
  • 4 Jul 2023
    • Energy
    • Sustainability
    • Middle East

    From hydrocarbons to hydrogen? Gulf states seek the good oil in green transition

    Achref Chibani
    The region that has long dominated global energy politics is well placed to shape a shift to new supplies.
  • 3 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Jokowi’s visit to Australia is about much more than electric vehicles

    Hilman Palaon
    The President has a roadmap for economic success that could also set bilateral relations on the right path.
  • 2 Jun 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Sustainability

    Speeding up Indonesia’s EV ambition

    Ahmad Munawir Siregar , Akhmad Hanan
    Ensuring sustainability is crucial to fully realise the environmental benefits of a switch away from fossil fuels.
  • 26 May 2023
    • Laos
    • Sustainability

    Home grown: Building a stronger food system in Laos

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Reducing reliance on imports should be the aim in ensuring the country is not hostage to global market volatility.
  • 9 May 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Hydro-hegemon? Complexities of shared rivers between China and India

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Alarm about China building dams upstream of Brahmaputra River must be tempered by India’s own record on water-sharing.
  • 4 May 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    The cost of crime and corruption on Pacific fisheries

    Jade Lindley
    The need for a well-funded response to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has never been greater.
  • 28 Apr 2023
    • South Korea
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    South Korea can’t afford to be a Wally with water

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    And neither can the rest of the world.
  • 14 Apr 2023
    • Laos
    • Southeast Asia
    • Sustainability

    Mekong River: Turning declaration into actions

    Andrea Haefner
    Millions rely on Southeast Asia’s biggest river and promises made in Vientiane last week must be kept.
  • 11 Apr 2023
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Sustainability

    Multilateral cooperation can improve South Asia’s water woes

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Transparency will help foster trust, which can lead to a common river management framework for the benefit of all.
  • 29 Mar 2023
    • Japan
    • Japan's Economy
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Sustainability

    Japan feels the pinch as fertiliser costs soar thanks to Russia’s war

    Yusaku Yoshikawa
    The country has for too long relied on foreign sources without cultivating domestic alternatives.
  • 29 Mar 2023
    • China
    • Sustainability

    China’s food dilemma

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    The push for a “Food Silk Road” is telling of the superpower’s vulnerability – environmental and geopolitical.
  • 24 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Antarctica
    • Sustainability

    Krill campaign less than thrilling

    Claire Young
    Sea Shepherd should widen its net beyond activism by diversifying efforts to support sustainable fishing.
  • 20 Mar 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Indonesia’s nickel superhighway

    Ronald Eberhard Tundang
    There are vast opportunities to build new industries when you’re sitting on the globe’s largest reserve of rare earth.
  • 15 Mar 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Antarctica
    • Environment
    • International law
    • International Relations
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability

    A jurisdiction over the high seas

    Bec Strating
    Australia will be a key player in the new agreement governing the globe’s largest natural habitat.
  • 28 Feb 2023
    • Vietnam
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Vietnam’s challenge to wean off coal

    Trang Nguyen
    Fossil fuels have driven rapid growth but the country has pledged – with global help – to be carbon neutral by 2050.
  • 24 Jan 2023
    • Asean
    • Japan
    • Sustainability

    Japan and ASEAN: 50 years of maritime strategy

    Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh
    Collaboration on ending illegal fishing and piracy in the region is important. But there are also bigger fish to fry.
  • 22 Nov 2022
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Europe must fully embrace nuclear energy

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    With Russia’s stranglehold on the region’s energy, it is time to add a second shade of green.
  • 17 Nov 2022
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Charging up old ties with Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Australia has stepped up a trade diversification push despite the first moves towards reconciliation with China.
  • 14 Oct 2022
    • China
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Can China build a “community” for shared oceans?

    Cherry Hitkari
    Amiable talk about safeguarding partners and protecting marine environment hasn’t allayed suspicions.
  • 10 Oct 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Sustainability

    Sustainable catch: better Indonesia-Australia cooperation on fishing

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    A new agreement is a chance to address the core problems of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
  • 29 Sep 2022
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Water scarcity challenges China’s development model

    Henry Storey
    With its industry and agriculture reliant on diminishing H2O, a crisis looms for the world’s most populous country.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • International law
    • Sustainability

    What Vietnam can learn from Thailand’s fight against illegal fishing

    Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh
    After being issued a yellow card, Hanoi must look to its neighbours and international laws for the way forward.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Support Pacific neighbours by strengthening indigenous food systems

    Essam Yassin Mohammed
    Unique knowledge was usurped by colonialism and imported production. Time to build resilience, from the shore up.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Japan
    • Sustainability

    What a waste! Japan’s food sustainability challenge

    Yusaku Yoshikawa
    Imported food has an environmental cost. And a nationwide effort is needed to drastically cut the amount discarded.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Indonesia-Australia climate change cooperation begins with the ocean

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    Mangroves, reefs and fish stocks – the building blocks of stronger approach by both countries to address global warming.
  • 14 Jun 2022
    • G20
    • Sustainability
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change
    • Technology

    Hyundai takes the driver’s seat in Indonesia’s EV market

    Akhmad Hanan , Budi Prayogo Sunariyanto
    With net zero emissions targets looming, Southeast Asia’s biggest car market is setting the pace on electric vehicles.
  • 3 Jun 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Global food threats: a chicken and egg story

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    “Temporary disruptions” carry a long term risk. But unwinding international supply chains could send farmers backward.
  • 1 Jun 2022
    • Asia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sustainability

    Water torture: Asia‑Pacific’s “WASH” crisis in need of solutions

    JJ Rose
    Access to clean water is not only a development challenge but one for geopolitics, too.
  • 16 May 2022
    • Sustainability
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Cambodia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Laos
    • Environment

    Diplomacy is indispensable to manage the Mekong

    Anoulak Kittikhoun
    The goal of a healthy river won’t be helped by misreading the shared mission of the Mekong River Commission.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Sri Lanka
    • Ukraine

    Russia-Ukraine: It always comes down to food

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    War in eastern Europe is devastating the supply of staple goods to distant regions that can least afford it.
  • 12 Apr 2022
    • Sustainability
    • Myanmar
    • Cambodia
    • China
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Laos

    How the Mekong River Commission ignores reality

    Milton Osborne
    Nothing is worth celebrating in how a once mighty wild river has been cruelly tamed.
  • 16 Mar 2022
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Climate change: less space between one disaster and the next

    Anthony Burke
    Simple mathematical errors and a hesitancy to open the wallet are just the beginning of the world’s climate problems.
  • 14 Mar 2022
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    Sustainable catch: navigating global fisheries crime

    Adam Graycar
    For a problem as wide as the ocean, many factors compound the challenge of protecting fish stocks.
  • 23 Feb 2022
    • Sustainability
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Transforming Australian diplomacy for climate leadership

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    Practical measures will foster enduring regional ties beyond the immediate challenge of responding to global warming.
  • 1 Feb 2022
    • Sustainability
    • European Union
    • Climate change
    • France

    How to speak green: Europe’s new energy taxonomy

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    A stoush about sustainable energy criteria reveals tensions, anxieties – and increasing French influence.
  • 18 Jan 2022
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Australia has a solution to Indonesia’s soaring food prices

    Kyle Springer
    As Indonesia takes the G20 presidency solving the country’s food security crisis should be top of the agenda.
  • 10 Nov 2021
    • Sustainability
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Australia-Indonesia: burn the boats

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    Protecting ocean resources can sometimes require extreme measures from which there is no way back.
  • 10 Nov 2021
    • Sustainability
    • China

    China: rejecting rubbish

    Shaun Cameron
    Far from trashing its reputation, Beijing did the world a favour by swinging the sword.
  • 17 Sep 2021
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • International law

    Safeguarding Pacific Island seas starts with indigenous knowledge

    Anna Naupa
    A new declaration by Pacific leaders on maritime zone preservation helps, but must also allow for cultural dialogue.
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