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Eksklusif The watchdog has downsized its 20-member team following funding pressures, a source has told Eco-Business. But Greenpeace Southeast Asia says the move also reflects a “broader assessment of strategy, impact, capability and long-term sustainability” across the region.

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – despite its own not launching until 2030.

Water is becoming a factor that can shape where companies invest, how much they can produce and how resilient their supply chains will be

Studio EB As industrialisation, digital infrastructure and climate pressures reshape demand, companies are being pushed to look beyond how much water they consume and ask whether the wider systems they depend on can sustain long-term growth.

Investors need a clearer way to measure and value resilience as Asia faces rising climate risks, according to Singapore's financial regulator, with the absence of a common metric making adaptation harder to finance at scale.

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Oleh Jessica Cheam

Oleh Taejun Kang

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Nepal’s devastating Himalayan floods have exposed the human and economic cost of a warming region, reviving demand for climate justice. Oleh Som Niroula

Economic insecurity and growing distrust in institutions are undermining governments’ ability to sustain support for climate action. To rebuild that support, they must show that climate policies can reduce household bills, create decent jobs, and ensure that the biggest emitters pay their fair share. Oleh Jayati Ghosh dan Owen Gaffney

The devastating floods in Nepal demonstrate what happens when reckless development puts climate-vulnerable communities in harm’s way. They also highlight a climate-finance system that is unable to provide the funds countries need in the immediate aftermath of such disasters. Oleh Nischal Dhungel

The dangerous flooding in Nepal and Tibet has demonstrated, once again, the need for prearranged disaster-risk financing to prepare for the economic chain reactions triggered by natural disasters. Asia's policymakers must act now to help cash-strapped Nepal and strengthen other countries' resilience before the next crisis hits. Oleh Yasuto Watanabe

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Oleh Edward Vrkić

Oleh Bård Harstad

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Speakers at Unlocking Capital for Sustainability Thailand 2026 discuss how private capital and blended finance can help build climate resilience across Asia Pacific.

Plenary 2 – Pricing the unpriced: Nature risk in Asia's capital markets

As nature loss emerges as a financial risk, Southeast Asia’s capital markets face pressure to price biodiversity into investment decisions.

In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

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Funding for climate-related solutions has slowed down and it’s a ‘tough game’ for startups, said those familiar with the climate tech space at The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale 2025. What can founders and innovators do to bring an idea to commercialisation? And is Singapore an attractive-enough testbed?

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In the latest episode of the Climate Tech in Asia series, we speak to Breakthrough Energy and Green COP about what the shifting geopolitical landscape means for the climate tech ecosystem in Asia.

A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.

As Southeast Asia eyes regional power trading to accelerate decarbonisation, veteran solar entrepreneur Frank Phuan unpacks the political, economic and logistical hurdles of moving clean energy across borders.

Eksklusif The economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network told the Eco-Business Podcast how China’s green industrial and financial capabilities can help accelerate Southeast Asia's transition to net zero.

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