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Governments of the Amazon are reaffirming their goals of pursuing green investment – all while expanding fossil fuel exploration and mining.

India's efforts to recycle its growing e-waste for climate goals put jobs of informal workers at risk.

Domestic decarbonisation initiatives are gradually spilling over into foreign ventures.

An Indonesian miner holds up a nickel ore

Asia Pacific is particularly vulnerable as it produces more than half of the world’s nickel, while being home to "corruption-prone jurisdictions" like Indonesia and the Philippines, says Angela Asuncion of nonprofit Resource Justice Network. The region also plays a key role in the critical minerals industry as lithium-rich Australia bids to be the COP host next year.

Oleh Isis Sartori Reis, Tom Baxter, Björn Jerdén

Oleh Robin Hicks

Oleh Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans. Oleh Binbin Mariana

A landmark UN treaty will soon govern two-thirds of the world’s oceans – testing whether nations can balance conservation with competition for deep-sea resources. Oleh Naporn Popattanachai

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Despite generating billions of dollars in illegal revenue a year, environmental crime in the Amazon still isn't a priority at UN climate summits. Oleh Robert Muggah

Vast natural-resource endowments have proven to be more of a curse than a blessing, with resource-rich countries often developing more slowly than their resource-poor counterparts. Today, countries rich in critical minerals have a chance to change this – but only if they invest in strengthening their institutional capacity. Oleh Rick van der Ploeg dan Rabah Arezki

Oleh Daniel Litvin

Polisi & Kewangan

Green crime goes global

Oleh Ilona Szabó dan Robert Muggah

Oleh Saswata Chaudhury

Oleh Mailinda Yuniza and Jonathan Dewanto

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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.

Mining operations at Altai Philippines Mining Corporation have been suspended for now, after week-long protests from locals of Sibuyan Island in Romblon, who claimed the extraction of nickel ore will disrupt the island’s intact ecosystems.

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?

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In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

The clean energy sector’s poor human rights performance places its legitimacy at risk. Jessie Cato of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sheds light on how the industry can avoid labour abuse, land grabs and other violations.

Studio EB Mining can come at great environmental cost, but is necessary to fuel the energy transition. Michael Salvatico from Trucost tells the Eco-Business podcast about the risk and opportunity confronting Australia's mining sector — and what it could mean for Asia Pacific.

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