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Smaller firms make 40 per cent of India’s steel and are the backbone of cities like Raipur. Some are exploring solar power, but face big constraints to make a deeper shift from coal.

Bangladesh is building a 42.5-megawatt power plant that will burn waste from the main Dhaka landfill as fuel.

As Germany tries to find workers for its renewable energy expansion, private recruiters are building new migration pipelines from India.

A hydroelectricity deal complicated by the need to cross through India has now been brought to a standstill by the disaster.

Oleh Sean Mowbray

Oleh Lisann Dias

Oleh Naina Rao

Oleh Almaas Masood

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While there is no single prescription for energy security, strengthening 'response capacity,' such as by establishing stockpiles, substituting sources, and diversifying suppliers, is essential. The point is not to eliminate vulnerabilities altogether, but to ensure that there are options when disruption arrives. Oleh Diego Hernandez Diaz, Luciano Di Fiori dan Tiago Devesa

A Kerala-Singapore climate technology partnership would therefore be more than environmental cooperation. It could become an industrial strategy

A commercial partnership could turn Kerala into a test bed for climate adaptation technologies spanning flood management, coastal resilience, water and agriculture. Oleh Kiran S Pillai

Nepal’s deadly mountain disaster exposes gaps in cross-border early-warning systems as climate change makes cascading Himalayan hazards more complex and unpredictable. Oleh Reshma Shrestha, Priyank Pravin Patel, Nimesh Dhungana dan Mehebub Sahana

The latest evidence suggests that the Chinese scientific establishment understands the dangers of a planned Himalayan dam – the world's largest – more clearly than its political leadership is willing to acknowledge. With the livelihoods of two billion people at stake, the international community needs to weigh in. Oleh Brahma Chellaney

Oleh Soumyajit Bhar

Oleh Animesh Ghosh dan Soumit Pandey

Oleh Deepanshu Mohan dan Ankur Singh

Oleh Oluwafemi Adeyeri dan Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

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Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted. It will premiere in Singapore and screen on the sidelines of the upcoming COP28 climate summit.

Studio EB There are vast mineral riches lying on the ocean floor that could help to power the energy transition, but is the environmental cost of extracting them worth the risk?

Produced and directed by Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam and video journalist Fraser Morton, who journeyed to Norway earlier this year, the documentary has played to thousands of visitors at Marina Bay Sands’ ArtScience museum since its premiere on 4 October.

With a vision to end the drudgery of manual rickshaw pulling, social enterprise SMV Green is also helping restore clean air in one of India's most polluted cities through electric rickshaws.

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Sustainability professional should not be prescriptive with their solutions, says Aun Abdullah of real estate company Lodha.

In the latest episode of 'On the frontlines', the real estate giant's ESG head tells the EB Podcast that while there has been no pushback on climate action by corporate India, questions remain over whether the booming real estate sector is decarbonising fast enough.

Hendrik Rosenthal, sustainability director, CLP Power

In the second episode of 'On the frontlines', power firm CLP's group sustainability director Rosenthal talks to the EB Podcast about the challenges of steering sustainability in a carbon-heavy industry, closing coal plants and the need for pragmatism.

Ani Dasgupta, CEO of World Resources Institute

The chief executive of World Resources Institute also told the Eco-Business Podcast that the gutting of USAID is less of a concern than how to unlock private capital for climate and nature in developing countries.

In a new series 'On the frontlines' that spotlights the challenges facing corporate changemakers, the sustainability chief for the Indian conglomerate argues that while language around ESG has become muddled, this should not prevent climate action.

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