SOUTHEAST Asia is one ambitious region. Nowhere is this more evident than in its climate change goals.
Net zero pledges proliferate as if the 10 nations that go to form Southeast Asia are in a race to be the first carbon-free nation. But that is where ambitions stop, according to a report released on Monday by Bain & Company, a global consultancy and three others.
Ambition and reality diverge and Southeast Asia, the report finds, has taken the road less travelled. A case of overpromise and under-delivery? Call it a Southeast Asian old normal. Concerted effort is a stranger in this…
