Vietnam leads the region in planned capacity of fossil gas – a potent greenhouse gas that can cause health and environmental issues.
Much of this gas infrastructure will be centered around the Mekong Delta, an ecosystem that sustains life not only in Vietnam but in the whole Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asian and European organizations in front of the UBS AGM in Lucerne, Switzerland Southeast Asian climate advocates confronted UBS at its Annual General Meeting,
Environmental and climate groups launched a new documentary on Tuesday, exposing Thailand’s destructive cost of fossil fuel development. It focuses on Rayong province, home to
BAKU, Azerbaijan – At the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), environmental groups launched the SAVE Mekong Delta
Southeast Asia now faces massive fossil gas expansion. This not only perpetuates dependence on dirty energy and sacrifices climate ambitions but also worsens energy insecurity and hinders the region’s shift to clean, renewable energy — causing health hazards and loss of livelihoods to local communities as much as it threatens the rich marine biodiversity that lies within the region.
The surge of gas-fired power plants comes with the development of LNG import terminals.
106.87 mtpa
Total import capacity of LNG expansion
53 LNG import terminal projects
are currently proposed or being built in the region, making Southeast Asia a fossil gas and LNG hub
