Eco-Business

Pakistan's once sleepy port now has options. It could reinvent itself into an oil hub, a trade gateway or a clean-energy powerhouse.

Across the globe, roads pose a deadly physical threat to wildlife and fragment the landscapes animals need to move through to survive. For some species, a road is a wall: They won’t even attempt to cross.

Policies encouraging use of cleaner steel and cement in Chinese-financed construction projects could help drive down emissions.

Mangroves implicated in a road project face removal or transplantation, raising ecological damage fears and threatening fishers’ way of life.

Oleh Lisann Dias

Oleh Jiayong Liang, Maria Adele Carrai, Xiaojiao Wang

Oleh Aisiri Amin

Oleh Robin Hicks

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The rise of electric SUVs is challenging the idea of green transport, with experts warning that heavier vehicles could undermine climate, health and equity goals. Oleh Keyvan Hosseini dan Dawn-Marie Walker

As Bali demolishes a vibrant surf hub, critics argue informal doesn’t mean unsustainable – and luxury villas are doing more harm. Oleh Kim Dovey

Metro Manila’s road congestion woes can be solved. But they have been hampered by slow implementation and weak political will. Oleh JC Punongbayan

Many cities in the Indo-Pacific have public transport stops close to at least half of their populations, but wider access remains a challenge. Oleh James Goldie

Oleh Susilawati

Oleh Jie Yin dan Dapeng Yu

Oleh Tamil Salvi Mari

Oleh Fiona McAlpine

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Plastic pollution is a huge problem all over of the world. Will India's plastic roads be a solution?

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China has provided huge funding supposedly to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate impacts, but it is also financing coal projects included in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). What do recipient countries make of this?

Moving away from narratives that spell fear of climate-related catastrophes, "Tomorrow" tells stories of how ordinary people -- from Icelandic volcanoes to Indian slums -- employ innovative ways to fight the effects of climate change.

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Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

Studio EB [The EB Podcast] In the second episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how to build zero carbon cities in fast-growing Southeast Asia.

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