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Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas.

Carbon Forward Asia, held from March 4 to 5 in Singapore, featured a panel on the second day titled “Removals: Putting the Net into Net-Zero,” which explored the opportunities and challenges for advancing carbon removal in Asia.

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge. This growth comes despite scientists’ warnings of the industry’s harm to the climate and its contribution to deforestation — increasingly in the tropics.

Singapore’s Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry announced that Singapore has signed carbon credit transfer agreements with three countries to fulfill its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.

A recent study in Ecological Solutions and Evidence shows just how complicated and challenging it is to achieve carbon sequestration goals through forest management — but not impossible.

Last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China, marked the third time that governments have failed to agree on a timeline for the organisation’s seventh assessment cycle (AR7).

U.S. Treasury officials have confirmed that the United States has withdrawn from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), refusing to provide the financing needed by developing countries for climate transformation.

Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt reported.

The Vietnamese government has introduced a new electricity decree, prioritizing the promotion of power generation projects using renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, as well as energy storage systems.

UN has singled out Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company, PT Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), for alleged human rights violations and environmental degradation, marking the first time they’ve targeted a specific company rather than the industry as a whole.

Since President Trump took office, he has imposed additional tariffs on many imported products, raising concerns in some Southeast Asian countries about the potential impact and prompting them to devise countermeasures.

Advances in biofuels could cement Thailand’s role as a regional leader in renewable energy, writes biofuels expert Hong Wai Onn.