‘We live in an era of geopolitics’

If one hears what Marco Rubio says about climate red tape at his address at the Munich Security Conference, with AI and Data Centres, energy is back to the table. Even EVs need energy to be charged which is not necessarily renewable.

Sustainability needs to speak to this reality, rather than through a stack of frameworks at every mention of anything remotely green or any shade of green.

A lot of communities still don’t have steady power access in the borderlands in SE Asia, hence plenary politics needs to be in conversation with local needs.