Global biodiversity summit is underway in Cali, Colombia, with Latin American governments finding common ground on key issues, as finance continues to fall short.
Singapore could be dangerously hot by the end of the century unless emissions reduce, warns climate scientist Ben Horton of the Earth Observatory. Meanwhile, Southeast Asian nations are ratcheting up fossil fuel production.
As declining oil output increases reliance on on foreign supply, the region’s oil import bill could exceed US$200 billion by 2050, posing major economic and energy security risks without a faster renewables shift, says the global energy authority.