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The complex landscape of VCMs is still expanding. How are carbon credits created and who are the key actors on both the buy- and sales- sides?

The city-state intends to use offsets sourced overseas in its national climate targets under the Paris Agreement, and is pursuing bilateral deals to prevent double counting with countries such as Ghana and Vietnam.

Air pollution spoils the view from a high-rise building in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

The push for domestic laws to punish haze-causing companies comes days after a spat between Malaysia and Indonesia over the origin of severe air pollution linked to smouldering peatlands.

Sustainability awareness is generally low in public relations agencies in Asia, which could expose brands to greenwashing risk. New guidelines aim to help PR practitioners avoid greenwashing and land the right sustainability messages with consumers.

Oleh Gabrielle See

Oleh Charu Bahri

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oleh Vanshika Lohia

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If global leaders are committed to a green transition that leaves no one behind, they must address the needs of vulnerable women and girls in developing countries, who bear the brunt of climate change at the upcoming COP28 summit. Oleh Bertrand Badré dan Immaculate Atuhamize

The sustainable development goal financing gap has widened significantly in many developing countries in the region. Coordinated multi-stakeholder regional partnerships and cooperation are needed to mobilise new resources. Oleh Naoko Ishii

Instead of pursuing the systemic changes needed to address water-related challenges, the world’s governments are bowing to corporate interests and settling for insufficient incremental reforms. Oleh Joshua Castellino

Plastic waste clogging a beach head in Jakarta

Voluntary plastic waste collection schemes have achieved little in tackling Indonesia's massive plastic waste problem. Some are even making things worse. What's really needed are tougher laws that make polluters pay and a greater emphasis on reuse over recycling. Oleh Benedict Wermter

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Oleh Jessica Cheam

Oleh Vinod Thomas

Oleh Mahmoud Mohieldin dan Vera Songwe

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Studio EB Asia's green transition pathways need to be socially inclusive given huge differences in economic development across the region, says experts at the Boston Consulting Group. State-owned enterprises have an "outsized" role to play, they add.

The Green Mortician is Singapore's first water cremation service

The Green Mortician is the city-state's first water cremation service, which has a small carbon footprint compared to traditional funeral options.

Studio EB Investors are starting to feel the effects of climate change in an unexpected place – their financial returns. There are now growing calls within the business community to improve the quality and coverage of climate risk disclosure.

Rich nations need to shift investments into renewables instead, they say. The civic space for demonstrations at this year's climate summit, held in Egypt, is more restricted than the Scotland event last year.

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"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

Japan-based academic Kim Schumacher, who coined the term "competence greenwashing", believes that the pursuit of societal harmony might be standing in the way of Asia calling out greenwashing. He tells the Eco-Business Podcast how exaggerated ESG claims are likely to be tackled in 2023 and beyond.

In a region where large hydro projects and expanding biofuel plantations coincide with an upcoming coal phaseout, a laissez-faire approach could worsen existing inequalities and mar the success of a clean energy buildout.

Pretending to be an ESG guru while actually knowing little or nothing about environmental or social issues is known as competency greenwash

Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in a key region for sustainable development.

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