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About 42 million hectares of forest remain within logging, oil palm, timber, and rubber concessions across the region, a new report finds. Conserving them through carbon markets alone would require carbon prices far above current levels.

A Thai member of parliament has called for the formation of a new committee to scrutinise the development of new data centres.

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Developing countries are mobilising more and more climate finance but neglecting their lowest-income peers.

Civil society groups say the bigger totals do not automatically translate into the adaptation and loss and damage support developing countries need, and warn that the World Bank’s climate retreat further weakens ambition across the multilateral development bank system.

Oleh Adeel Saeed, Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Oleh Eung Sea

Oleh Siva Selan

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As the country moves to meet its renewables targets, grid projects must be negotiated so Cambodia retains control over operational data. Oleh Tan Sambathsopheaktra

Multilateral development banks have not kept pace with changes to the global financial environment. For middle-income countries like India, accessing knowledge and technology is now a bigger challenge than raising capital, which suggests that these institutions must rethink their operating model. Oleh Tanu M Goyal dan Shekhar Aiyar

Workers in an electronic manufacturing factory in a Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) area in Laguna.

The World Bank has made a volte-face on industrial policy. Southeast Asian countries will need to consider the new policy, but calibrate it across vastly different national contexts. Oleh Marco Kamiya

As global risks rise, India and Nigeria show how energy security and growth depend on integrated, resilient, homegrown, digital, and scalable systems. Oleh Abba Aliyu dan Manoj Sinha, Woochong Um

Oleh Jessica Cheam

Oleh Pietro Rocco dan Toby Kwan

Oleh Emily Wilkinson dan Ali Naseer Mohamed

Oleh Lotanna Emediegwu

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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.

Suggestions by delegates at the World Bank's recent Innovate4Climate event in Singapore included: Supporting developing countries in their efforts to conserve the forests, and launching more incubators for climate-friendly solutions.

Studio EB Battery technology could reshape the global energy sector, and this year's #Innovate4Climate summit in Singapore will focus on the cutting-edge innovation that could change the energy landscape.

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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 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.

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