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The world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, Indonesia plans to tighten restrictions on coal miners and build an industrial park that generates energy from renewables. In this episode, we also cover the hope for Vietnam’s IUU fishing issue, a suspended clean energy plant in China and a controversial China-funded climate project in Thailand. 

Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Stella Chan and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

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China unveils the details of its green transition towards carbon neutrality starting with reforms and incentives given to major polluting industries.  A fragile climate victory prevails in Indonesia’s court despite the country’s ambiguous and often contradictory position on domestic deforestation.  The cane toad, a species globally introduced into farmland for pest control, is starting to become a problem in Taiwan.



Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee, Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!

This week we close our coverage of COP26 with some main takeaways, and discuss two new green innovative projects in Asia: a net-zero emissions airport in India and lab-grown seafood in Singapore.



Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Stella Chan
Producers: Khoa Tran, Stella Chan and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!

Talks at COP26 have finally begun starting from the first week of November, here’s a catchup on what has been discussed on the table so far. 

Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran and Chermaine Lee
Producers: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee and Avery Choi
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee, Khoa Tran
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!

Things are looking dire as COP26 is starting.  This week we look at the UN emissions gap report released ahead of what many describe as the world’s last best hope to curb emissions.  Singapore is exploring geothermal energy, a promising renewable that’s been around for a while and comes at a high cost.  Lastly, we cover a development for electric vehicles: how there is some hope on how standardizing certain practices could lead to a healthier secondhand market.



Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Avery Choi, Stella Chan
Producers: Avery Choi, Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites

We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!

This week, we explore methane emissions in Turkmenistan, what they are and what is being done about them; a concerning document leak ahead of COP26; and more extreme weather forecasts for Northern China.



Production credits: Production by Sustainable Asia
Hosts: Khoa Tran, Chermaine Lee  
Producers: Khoa Tran, Stella Chan, Chermaine Lee
Production Supervisor: Bonnie Au, Chermaine Lee
Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
Transition Music: Xylo-Ziko - Termites

We also have a Mandarin Greenbites show, check it out now!