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Kebijakan & Keuangan
Analysis: Will COP28 bring us closer to a global carbon market?
National and regional carbon markets are growing fast, but more should be done to coordinate them at the UNFCCC level.
Whoever is elected in February must involve more of society in consultations on BRI projects to mitigate environmental risks, Indonesian analysts write.
Scientists say deforestation is compounding the effects of climate change, threatening to turn parts of the forest into savannah.
The risk of emissions leaking from carbon storage and nature-related projects has held investors back from carbon markets, fuelling an increase in new insurance offerings.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Q&A: What the ‘underwhelming’ Three Basins Summit means for tropical forests
Pangan & Agrikultur
Food reform can’t distract from fossil fuels at COP28
#forests Opini
Karbon & Iklim
The carbon-offset market’s broken promises
As businesses come under pressure to meet net-zero targets, they are increasingly investing in forest-protection projects to cancel out their carbon emissions. But what could have been a viable climate-mitigation option has become little more than a licence to pollute, to the detriment of indigenous communities and the planet.
Respecting planetary boundaries can bring us back to a safe operating space where Earth’s life support systems are not at risk.
Karbon & Iklim
Climate solutions are already in our nature
From natural seawalls to mangroves, countries are starting to combat climate change with nature-based solutions. COP28 might drive more of these efforts.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The geopolitics of nature
In today’s world, forging the shared sense of purpose needed to tackle the climate and nature crisis appears almost impossible. And yet, far from building bridges, many – particularly in the Global North – are exacerbating divisions.
Karbon & Iklim
In defence of nature-based carbon markets
Kebijakan & Keuangan
High time for a high-seas treaty
#forests Video
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Environmental defenders are the glue of the Philippines’ democracy’: Delikado director Karl Malakunas
The veteran journalist talks to Eco-Business about how his Emmy-nominated documentary depicts the lives of environmental crusaders in Asia's deadliest country for guardians of the seas and forests.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Pandemics and the exploitation of wildlife — what’s the connection?
The origin of Covid-19 is believed to be a market selling live wild animals. Eco-Business asked Anbarasi Boopal of Singapore-based animal welfare charity Acres about the link between the exploitation of animals and pandemics, and what can be done to curb the illegal wildlife trade.
Karbon & Iklim
Indigenous tribe in Indonesia wins land rights amid growing recognition of their role in climate fight
Around the world, indigenous people have historically suffered from abuse and rights violations, despite being critical to forest conservation. This tribe in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, just won rights over its land after a 40-year struggle. Are governments waking up to the reality that indigenous groups could lead the battle against climate change?
Studio EB
Palm oil frequently makes headlines, but the faceless workers harvesting the fruit of the oil palm less so. What are the challenges of the job and how can their rights be safeguarded?
#forests Podcasts
Karbon & Iklim
Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?
Studio EB
Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
The stories of Malaysia’s indigenous tribes are now being captured through the fresh lenses of young female filmmakers. In this bilingual podcast recorded in English and Bahasa Melayu, they tell Eco-Business why they've picked up the camera.
Karbon & Iklim
The ‘triangle of deceit’ in climate conversations: ESG, net-zero and voluntary carbon markets
Eco-Business talks to 'angry clean energy guy' Assaad Razzouk about the flaws in much-hyped climate change solutions, and how to fix them.
Eco-Business talks to environmental psychologist Dr Denise Dillon about Singapore's uncomfortable relationship with nature, whether loving nature is essential for conservation, and why climate anxiety might actually be a good thing.
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Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
UN Development Programme
Ten countries to bag UNDP's 2023 Equator Prize
The Borneo Project
King Charles III called on to stand up for forests in Sarawak
