TOKYO -- Resource-poor Singapore has turned adversity into economic success, thriving as the region's trade and finance hub. Now, with a compound need to achieve carbon neutrality and energy security, the city-state appears to be set on becoming Asia's renewable energy hub as well. If successful, the country could serve as a beacon for other ASEAN members to follow in dealing with difficult carbon reduction goals.
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Singapore aspires to become Asia's renewable energy hub
The dot on the map of ASEAN hopes to repeat its outsize trade and finance success
Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, the heir apparent to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, says the city-state aims to cut its carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Reuters)
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