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Opinion

The sustainability leadership burnout of 2026 looks very different from that of 2024. What has changed is not just magnitude, but the nature of the pressures: endless reporting, fractured authority, reputational minefields, and moral burden.

Corporate Responsibility

As sustainability roles get harder in 2026, burnout risk is growing

Burnout among sustainability professionals isn’t just persisting – it’s deepening, shaped by new pressures.
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Energy

How the Global South can deepen the benefits of Chinese clean-tech investment

Vietnam’s stalled Chinese-backed solar factories underscore how Global South nations must demand technology transfer and value addition – not just capital inflows – from China’s expanding overseas clean-tech investments.
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Food & Agriculture

How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

From the Ifugao highlands to Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains, Indigenous terrace farming illustrates how long-standing, locally adapted practices capture water, conserve soil and diversify crops to withstand intensifying climate extremes.
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Food & Agriculture

How to feed ten billion people

With the world’s population expected to reach ten billion by mid-century, agriculture must produce more with less – every season, everywhere. The knowledge and tools to end and prevent food insecurity are already in hand, but they have yet to be used wisely and at scale.

All Opinion

22 January 2026

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Cities

Aceh’s bitter lesson, relearned

21 January 2026

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Carbon & Climate

As climate diplomacy stalls, the economics are racing ahead

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Policy & Finance

How international aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding

20 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources

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Policy & Finance

Strategic priorities for Asean's newest member

19 January 2026

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Energy

How data centres can avoid becoming the next coal mines

16 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

The AI we need for sustainable infrastructure

15 January 2026

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Cities

Eliminating extreme poverty: Kerala’s lessons for Asean countries

14 January 2026

Hòa Bình Dam in Vietnam

Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability reporting tools must bridge impacts of local businesses and Earth's limits

12 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

The ocean has finally entered the global climate debate

A two speed world is emerging in ESG

Corporate Responsibility

The ESG skills gap nobody’s talking about

9 January 2026

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Carbon & Climate

China’s five green economy challenges in 2026

7 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Changing diets amid a changing climate

6 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

Is Malaysia heading towards an uninsurability crisis?

5 January 2026

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Cities

Climate adaptation more than covers its cost

31 December 2025

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Food & Agriculture

War and weather show how fragile food systems are - we must act

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