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Despite rising coal production in India, job losses loom over the sector as mines are closed. The most vulnerable people in India's energy transition are the growing numbers of informal workers and their families.

Speaking at the annual Singapore FinTech Festival, Banga, who has been tasked to turbocharge the bank’s operations, reveals that it is months away from setting up a mechanism to issue certification for forest carbon credits.

Whoever is elected in February must involve more of society in consultations on BRI projects to mitigate environmental risks, Indonesian analysts write.

A World Bank-backed project has been criticised by rice farmers for high costs and poor returns. Can its proposed second phase salvage things?

Oleh Gabrielle See

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oleh Catherine Early

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The COP28 president needs to deliver his promise to bridge the Global South’s annual US$1 trillion shortfall in climate financing. He can start by endorsing a levy on windfall oil revenues on petroleum states. Oleh Gordon Brown

Many campaigners on international financial institutions know from monitoring the multilateral lender's operations that it lacks a "climate culture", as it imposes loans and conditionalities to Global South countries. Oleh Dorothy Grace Guerrero

Superpower rivalry at APEC with China and the US vying for influence in the Pacific expected to put extra pressure on the alliance. Oleh Aravind Yelery

Rich countries must step up with more investment in climate action to achieve a safe and prosperous future for all. Oleh Joe Thwaites

Oleh Maria Monica Wihardja

Oleh Harjeet Singh dan Liane Schalatek

Oleh Olivier De Schutter

Oleh Kim Fe Cramer

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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.

Jovie Montajes, founder of Light of Hope PH

After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.

Pension funds are some of the world's largest investors—holding trillions in assets—billions of which are pumped into fossil fuel companies like Shell, BP, and Total.

Eminent speakers and thousands of attendees discussed strategies for a resource-efficient future at Ecosperity Week 2019. As they heard about the science of global warming, delegates were called upon to be part of the solution.

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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.

EB Podcast with Elena Philipova, director of sustainable finance, Refinitiv

It is no longer business as usual when it comes to how we tackle climate change and rising global temperatures. Eco-Business speaks to Elena Philipova of Refinitiv about how data can ensure countries and businesses are delivering on pledges to decarbonise.

What are the dangers of gender bias in technology design and what are the market opportunities for womentech—technologies that centre the needs of women?

Eksklusif The world's largest asset manager says it has put sustainability at the core of its investment approach. Eco-Business speaks to Shinbo Won, BlackRock's investment stewardship director in Singapore about what this means for investors, and how companies are responding to increased ESG pressure.

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