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Kebijakan & Keuangan
Revealed: UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance
The UK government has reclassified nearly £500m of aid for war-torn and impoverished countries as “climate finance”, in a bid to meet its international commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Karbon & Iklim
Why does the EU want to quit the Energy Charter Treaty?
European lawmakers have backed plans for the EU to exit a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue when climate policies hit profits.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) held their spring meetings last week in Washington DC – a key event in a critical year for international climate finance.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Singapore rolls out new industry benchmark for sustainable finance skills
As the city-state seeks to expand its sustainable finance workforce over the next few years, the sector’s national certification agency has pushed out a “skills badge” that can be used to assess the green credentials of professionals.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Majority of Asian investors still lack deforestation policies: AIGCC
Kebijakan & Keuangan
OCBC working to amend coal policy to finance early retirement projects
#climate finance Opini
Kebijakan & Keuangan
What a climate-aligned IMF would look like
As the only multilateral institution charged with maintaining global financial and fiscal stability, the IMF’s role is critical for addressing climate change.
Karbon & Iklim
Taxing polluters is the key to climate justice
A new international tax taskforce is exploring tax policies that could finance sustainable development and climate action. This could pave the way for a fair taxation system that would accelerate a just transition.
Non-populist policies pose risks for politicians. Prabowo Subianto, who has claimed victory in the Indonesian presidential elections, is looking at creating five million green jobs, but stops short of pledging to phase out fossil fuels subsidies.
Pangan & Agrikultur
A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action
Studio EB
Mutual benefits are assured when the financial sector collaborates with palm oil stakeholders. FIs can help smallholders secure credit, while getting access to data and insights required to make sound and profitable investment decisions.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Official development assistance must recognise countries' vulnerabilities
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Matchmakers for the green transition
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss
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Karbon & Iklim
Activists protest fossil fuel funding at COP27
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.
#climate finance Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The race to insure Southeast Asia against climate risk
Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.
Energi
‘Carrots, sticks, and hugs’: Scrutinising Indonesia’s US$20 billion just transition challenge
The populous coal-rich powerhouse has six months to tell investors how it plans to spend G7 money to decarbonise equitably. We ask experts about the risks, strategy, and opportunities.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The Limits to Growth, 50 years later
"Earth For All" is an update to the landmark 1972 book that warned of our unsustainable growth. Jørgen Randers, the author who worked on both titles, tells Eco-Business what is at stake if we don't fix our broken economic system.
#climate finance Rilis Pers
United Nations Development Programme
New GEF funds scales up ambition to get ahead of the triple planetary crisis
Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank commits record climate finance of almost US$10 billion in 2023
