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10 May 2024

A protest banner reading “Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis” lies on land cleared for food estate project in Kalimantan in 2022.

Food & Agriculture

Prabowo administration signals hard stance on illegal deforestation in Indonesia as it plots food estate expansion

Flooding in Mentakab Town central Pahang, Malaysia, in December 2021.

Carbon & Climate

Four Asean countries among the world's top emitters at high risk of climate disaster

Ganges_River_Treaty_Bangladesh_India

Water

What will it take for Bangladesh and India to sign transboundary river agreements?

9 May 2024

rice fields drought

Policy & Finance

Environmentalists urge Philippines to back proposed US$700 billion tax on fossil fuel giants to support loss and damage fund

CB_CO2_Removal

Carbon & Climate

CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5°C warming limit

Environmental_Defenders_COP

Policy & Finance

Latin America approves plan for protecting environmental defenders

8 May 2024

Petrol pump in Malaysia

Energy

Fossil fuel subsidy cuts will posit Malaysia as clean energy leader, but require phased approach: experts

SOPA_2024_Eco-Business

Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business earns three finalist spots at SOPA journalism awards, including for video, infographics

7 May 2024

RGE-plantation

Carbon & Climate

Why progress beats perfection in safeguarding nature and biodiversity among Asean businesses

Pride_Parade_Climate_Justice

Cities

Why are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?

Islam_Charity_Bangladesh_Aid

Policy & Finance

Islamic charitable giving could fund Bangladesh climate adaptation

6 May 2024

Spencer Low, regional head of sustainability, Google

Carbon & Climate

Google appoints Spencer Low as first Asia Pacific sustainability head

3 May 2024

A steel manufacturing plants in Indonesia

Manufacturing

Carbon pricing is seen as a 'way out' for the Malaysian steel industry to cut emissions

Sime Darby plantation workers' houses

Food & Agriculture

Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry

Coal_Mining_Yuqia_China

Carbon & Climate

China’s draft mining law mandates ecological restoration for first time, but gaps remain

Wind_Power_Weihai_China

Carbon & Climate

A decarbonising China needs to talk about justice

2 May 2024

InfiniteEarth Rimba Raya monkey

Policy & Finance

Verra validated by carbon market watchdog after 'significant' procedural changes

Construction_Worker_Heatwave

Cities

How can workers be protected from extreme heat?

29 April 2024

Muhktar Babayev

Policy & Finance

COP29 presidency reiterates commitment to Paris Agreement as Azerbaijan defends oil and gas expansion

A family living in the northern part of Jakarta, the world’s fastest sinking metropolis, gets on with life as their home is flooded.

Cities

Stay or go? Jakarta's coastal communities mull adaptation or migration as the city sinks

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