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13. Climate action
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. The world continues to experience rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions (the North Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest ever recorded) and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases. This calls for urgent and accelerated action by countries as they implement their commitments to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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Kebijakan & Keuangan
Singapore’s competitiveness hinges on deeper Asean ties, report warns amid Hormuz-driven turmoil
New SIIA report notes that regional cooperation on energy, AI, finance and supply chains will be critical to strengthening the bloc's economic security and preserving its relevance in a more fragmented global economy.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: ‘To avoid war, we need to invest in climate solutions’
Small island states are optimistic about the ocean but tired of richer nations’ hypocrisy over climate change, Angelique Pouponneau tells Dialogue Earth.
The climate standards body says the consultation gives Southeast Asian firms — key players in global agricultural and land-use supply chains — a chance to help shape the second version of its Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) Standard to guide companies in setting science-based targets for land-based emissions and removals.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘COP30 is not over’: Indigenous peoples press for hard power
With no seat at the negotiating table, Brazil’s Indigenous movement is pushing for change using marches and underground policy proposals.
Opini
Karbon & Iklim
Europe is fiddling while Rome burns
Focusing only on emergency planning, disaster response, and recovery after each climate catastrophe is no longer enough in Europe. Policymakers urgently need to start mapping Europe’s long-term future, which will require a fundamental overhaul of its infrastructure, energy system, and major economic sectors.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Tearing down the currency wall
Most of the world seems to misunderstand why global capital is not financing the developing world’s climate transition. The real problem lies in the structure of price formation, which policymakers can best address by focusing on three key priorities.
Karbon & Iklim
Will the US climate war with Canada become global?
For the first time, a great power has moved to price transboundary climate-driven harms–massive wildfires–and extract compensation unilaterally. What was previously a development, insurance, or emissions-accounting issue is now a security and trade dispute between two G7 economies, setting a precedent that others may try to follow.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN
OECD rules won’t save Asian revenues or fund climate resilience. The upcoming UN Tax Convention negotiations offer our best chance to rebuild a broken system.
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The 31-year-old engineer responds to criticism that his non-profit focuses downstream of the bigger problem with a "quick fix" solution, and claims he can clean the ocean in a decade by intercepting river trash.
Karbon & Iklim
‘Resilience is not a buzzword’: Palm oil leaders call for industry reset amid global shocks
In the inaugural episode of Eco-Business's new Resilience podcast series, industry leaders say the palm oil sector's ability to weather disruption will depend not on certification alone, but on rethinking the relationships that underpin the entire supply chain.
Watch our panelists discuss the current landscape and challenges of Scope 3 disclosures, and the enabling role of technology and organisational buy-in to close the reporting gap.
The impact documentary exploring Asia's mounting waste crisis – and its solutions – is now streaming exclusively for Eco-Business subscribers.
Podcasts
Karbon & Iklim
‘Resilience is not a buzzword’: Palm oil leaders call for industry reset amid global shocks
In the inaugural episode of Eco-Business's new Resilience podcast series, industry leaders say the palm oil sector's ability to weather disruption will depend not on certification alone, but on rethinking the relationships that underpin the entire supply chain.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Show me the money’ – this is what sustainability has become: CIMB CSO Luanne Sieh
The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.
Energi
Geothermal is no longer an underdog technology, but a strategic advantage for the Philippines
Studio EB
Critical to the country’s energy security in the 1970s, geothermal is now re-emerging as the Philippines’ biggest clean energy advantage at a time when countries are seeking reliable, round-the-clock renewable power, says Francis Giles B. Puno, president and chief operating officer of First Gen Corporation.
Former Yale-NUS environmental social sciences professor Michael Maniates tells the Eco-Business Podcast that individual actions like going vegetarian, reducing plastic use or avoiding air travel are not only insufficient to address the climate crisis – they are counterproductive.
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