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Meant to pay countries for keeping forests standing, the fund has an interim charter, a board, a World Bank home… and insufficient funds.

Studio EB Experts say the region's next challenge is turning climate commitments into enforceable coal retirement plans that protect people, local communities, and energy security.

A new report finds that more than 61.5 million hectares of protected areas analysed across tropical countries overlap with oil and gas blocks, while another 42.7 million hectares overlap with mining concessions.

As scientists and dozens of nations call for major reductions in plastic production, the plastics industry continues to push pyrolysis — dubbed chemical or advanced recycling — as a primary solution to the global plastic waste crisis.

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Oleh Kelvin Yap

Oleh Isa Lim

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

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In regions where economic activity has long revolved around fossil-fuel extraction, ensuring a just transition requires developing alternative livelihoods that account for each community’s specific needs. Regional endowment funds could be a useful vehicle for funding these local initiatives. Oleh Grita Anindarini

Corporate lobbying, political donations and manufactured public support are helping fossil fuel corporations obstruct climate action in Australia. The key to overcoming the influence of polluters lies in understanding who shapes climate policy, and how. Oleh Christian Downie

Ahead of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Annual Meeting in Bangkok, frontline nations call for financial liberation from the debt traps and failed prescriptions of International Financial Institutions. Oleh Lidy Nacpil, Jean Saldanha dan Ucizi Ngulube

Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places. Oleh Adam Miller

Oleh William Sabandar

Oleh Lidy Nacpil dan Farooq Tariq

Oleh Sarah Stroup dan Jennifer Hadden

Oleh Amol Mehra dan Claire Harbron

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As Jakarta tightens carbon rules and launches its national registry, speakers at Unlocking capital for sustainability Indonesia 2026 discuss this critical question.

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.

Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.

Dr Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering study of chimpanzees nearly 60 years ago in Tanzania, continues her work to conserve nature in Africa by joining an expedition to protect the continent’s highest peak.

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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.

At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.

The chief of a Manila-based nonprofit that advocates for climate finance transparency tells the EB Podcast that so-called Filipino resilience to natural disasters should not be an “excuse” for developers to dodge accountability for substandard flood control projects.

Civic groups charge that an anti-foreign interference bill will muzzle civil society. How can activists safely advocate for human rights? Eco-Business asked Vanessa Ho from Project X and Fair Finance Asia's Bernadette Victorio.

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