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Why are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?
Natural disasters caused by climate change can adversely affect LGBTQ+ people already suffering from poverty and discrimination.
Polisi & Kewangan
Islamic charitable giving could fund Bangladesh climate adaptation
Charitable giving in Bangladesh could raise enough to adapt to climate change if pooled and coordinated.
Polisi & Kewangan
As India votes, young workers hope for jobs and better pay
Unemployment is voters' top election concern - especially among young Indians who are struggling to find skilled, permanent jobs.
Kuala Selat village lies on the coast of Indragiri Hilir district on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. In the first half of the year, residents of the village arrange buckets and drums to collect rainwater to meet their daily needs. They will then stockpile water to last through the dry months from June to September, but a longer dry spell has led to an acute shortage of water.
Polisi & Kewangan
How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia
Polisi & Kewangan
Don't forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged
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Polisi & Kewangan
Delhi’s dilemma: a growing economy and growing unemployment
India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate degrees is at an all-time high.
A Malawian campaigner and scientist at the UN INC4 negotiations in Ottawa sets out four tests for the global plastic treaty.
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City where the promise of good health turns to ash
Regular stakeholder consultation is needed to address climate change and lessen pollution-related health impacts.
Karbon & Cuaca
Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
Human health relies on healthy ecosystems, but these are under threat. Securing the right to live in a healthy environment is crucial for all.
Polisi & Kewangan
Overcoming the development-project implementation gap
Polisi & Kewangan
The World Bank and IMF must put a value on clean air
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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.
Polisi & Kewangan
‘No income, insufficient aid’ for Oriental Mindoro fisherfolk after oil spill: Research group
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.
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Polisi & Kewangan
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
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.
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United Nations Development Programme
Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards: UNDP
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change impacts severely impede SDGs: ADB-UN report
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
New UN report: Along with gender, where people live key factor in determining levels of poverty, inequality in APAC
World Economic Forum
Top organisations unlock new investments to support world’s most vulnerable
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum underscores need for collaborative action to ensure crisis resilient urban futures
