As the coronavirus sends carbon emissions plummeting, the world has glimpsed a cleaner, greener future. While Japan, Korea and Singapore have taken a lead in the green sector, the region’s developing countries seem stuck in a fossil-fuel past. Despite this, specific plans – such as decommissioning fossil fuel-based power plants, placing environmental conditions on the aviation sector or increasing renewable energy targets as part of their recovery strategies – were still missing, said Margareth Sembiring, an Associate Research Fellow at RSIS in Singapore.