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Singapore Launches 200MW Data Centre Call for Application (DC-CFA2)
Singapore invites AI-ready low-carbon data centres in new 200MW expansion round. This second Data Centre – Call for Application (DC-CFA2) process marks the most significant opportunity to enter or expand in Singapore’s highly regulated market since Singapore’s introduction of a moratorium on the construction of new data centres in 2019.
09 December 2025
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Cross-Border Electricity Trade moves from concept to bankable path: what the Singapore/Australia CBET Framework means
Australia and Singapore have signed the Cross-Border Electricity Trade Framework (CBET Framework), turning years of policy intent into a practical pathway.
14 October 2025
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Transforming energy across APAC: Corporate PPAs
In pockets of Asia, corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are emerging as a transformative tool opening access to renewable energy and driving decarbonisation.
07 July 2025
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Buying green electricity in Malaysia: Corporate PPAs emerge in a liberalising market
Malaysia is moving towards a more sustainable energy future as it chases ambitious renewables targets, with increasing initiatives and the gradual rolling out of a liberalised electricity market. Corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) have emerged as a game-changing solution within this framework.
07 July 2025
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Redefining energy in Japan: Game-changing corporate PPAs shape the future
For Japan's energy transition, these agreements are game-changers. In a post-Fukushima context where the country has struggled to balance energy security with decarbonisation goals, corporate PPAs provide a market-based mechanism to finance new renewable capacity outside traditional subsidy schemes. The data centre sector's entrance into this space is particularly noteworthy, as it addresses the dual challenges of powering Japan's digital economy while meeting increasingly stringent corporate environmental commitments.
03 June 2025
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The rise of carbon trading between governments: Can businesses benefit from Intergovernmental Carbon Credits under Article 6.2?
We talk a lot about global carbon trading markets – yet relatively little about the mechanism by which countries trade emissions reductions. That mechanism - Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) – is a strategic tool for nations to not only comply with their climate commitments but also to leverage their carbon sink resources effectively.
26 August 2024
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Leading the Charge: EV Battery Supply Chains
The strong global push to electrify the world’s vehicle population has in turn created exponential demand for the various components comprising an EV, with the most important being its energy source – the battery. The EV battery (and its supply chain) serves as the single most valuable part of an EV, typically accounting for 30% to 40% of the value of the vehicle[2]. This high cost is mainly attributed to the battery’s composition of several critical raw minerals, including lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel and graphite[3]. As we share below, these minerals are hard to come by and supply is concentrated in the hands of a few countries.
24 July 2024
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Year of the Dragon Snapshot
The Year of the Dragon is here: and it promises evolution and opportunities across energy, ESG and technology
06 March 2024
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Public-Private Partnerships in Japan
In Japan, in order to maintain appropriate public services given its aging public facilities, severe financial conditions of national and local governments, and population decline, administrators of public facilities there is need to improve efficiency of costs related to reconstruction, renovation, repair, and operation of public facilities, for instance in relation to management and consolidation of public facilities etc..
23 November 2023
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Indonesia’s Nickel Rush – Riding the Waves of the EV Battery Revolution
Nickel is set to become one of the most important critical minerals in the net zero transition, reaching a predicted global market of almost US$60bn within 5 years. Future industry growth will be driven by the dramatic increase in demand for lithium-ion EV batteries – of which nickel is a key component. Given the exponential growth in demand, there is still a high risk that supply will fall short in the coming decade.
12 October 2023
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What carbon offset strategy best suits your business?
The voluntary carbon markets present a range of opportunities for business to execute its decarbonisation strategy. Under Australia’s predominant carbon market, the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme administered by the Clean Energy Regulator, more than 13 million ACCUs were transacted in the first quarter of 2023. This is over half the number transacted in 2022, and more than the total transacted in 2020 and 2021 combined.[1]
05 September 2023
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The Carbon Market Trends Moving China to a Sustainable Future
China’s efforts to encourage businesses to cut emissions and improve carbon data transparency are critical to achieving a sustainable future. From the national emissions trading system expanding and opening to foreign investment, to carbon cutting incentives for individuals, there is a rising tide of carbon-related initiatives across China.
01 August 2023
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Is Your Global Value Chain Sustainable? Europe’s Rules Herald New Era of Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD)
New rules in the EU that will force large companies to check their value chain for any negative human rights and environmental impacts have inched closer.
31 July 2023
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Equitable fuel of the future? Developing the hope of hydrogen
The global appetite for cost-competitive green hydrogen has seen the US, the EU, Australia and others introduce incentives to lure investment and encourage development.
17 July 2023
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Around the world in carbon trading: a glance at regulated regimes
In the latest insight from our Carbon Markets Series, we visit the regimes around the world that are driving change.
29 March 2023
