Eco-Business

As climate change makes heatwaves more frequent and severe in South Asia, India’s heat action plans offer pathways for adaptation, but experts say they lack necessary focus on vulnerable populations.

What is being done to lower the emissions footprint of new buildings, and retrofit old ones with insulation and low carbon-heating?

As rural Bangladeshis lose crops and homes to climate change impacts, insurance and microfinance could offer some protection.

As low-income Pakistanis fall foul of unscrupulous lending apps, complaints of fraud, data abuse and blackmail alarm authorities.

Oleh Robin Hicks

Oleh Orla Dwyer

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oleh Abhaya Raj Joshi

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Artificial recharge and deep soil mixing are two techniques showing promise in rescuing sinking cities. Oleh Tamil Salvi Mari

As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear. Oleh Dharmesh Shah

More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now. Oleh Jie Yin dan Dapeng Yu

Kebijakan & Keuangan

Globalisation is greener

The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world. Oleh Mekala Krishnan dan Olivia White

Oleh Mami Mizutori

Oleh Firdaus Ali

Oleh Katherine Dafforn

Oleh Masduki

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Amid competing concerns such as urban development and tackling climate change, keeping biodiversity conservation in people's minds can be a challenge. Eco-Business asks primatologist Andie Ang how that can be tackled.

Studio EB Polestar, a new entrant to Singapore’s electric car market, hopes to woo consumers by going the extra mile in sustainable design.

Studio EB Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.

As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.

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Studio EB Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.

GoTo sustainability head Tanah Sullivan tells the Eco-Business Podcast that regulating net-zero claims would decarbonise Southeast Asia faster. Indonesia's biggest internet firm aims to cut emissions to zero by 2030 — a target critics say is unrealistic.

Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.

Studio EB The built environment's sprawling carbon footprint can be reined in by giving old buildings a 'climate makeover' as cities grow. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to Vinod Jethani about the benefits and challenges of retrofitting old buildings.

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