Eco-Business

The position had been vacant for four months amid a deadlock in negotiations for the treaty to curb global plastic pollution.

Strategically engaging can help shape China's emerging environmental leadership.

Disputes over voting rules have allowed a small group of countries to block ambition – stalling a global treaty to curb plastic production and pollution.

Considered a “significant escalation” in its global governance aims, China is up against Chile and Belgium to host the treaty’s secretariat.

Oleh Louise Krüger

Oleh Mao Xiaoli

Oleh Daisy Dunne, Molly Lempriere, Orla Dwyer, Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney

Oleh David Akana

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The Trump Administration has broken with the tradition of pursuing its national interests in tandem with an emphasis on alliances and values. Southeast Asian countries will respond accordingly. Oleh Derek Grossman

As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds. Oleh Hossain Ahmed Taufiq dan Jonas Gamso

China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while sidestepping tougher cuts and accountability. Oleh Alex Lo

COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence. Oleh Binaifer Nowrojee

Oleh Jacqueline Peel

Polisi & Kewangan

What COP30 must do

Oleh Syeda Rizwana Hasan

Oleh Naporn Popattanachai

Oleh Joel Ong

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More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.

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Studio EB As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.

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