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Asian insurers slow to curb LNG cover in marine-rich Coral Triangle
Major insurers from the region, including MS&AD, SOMPO, and Tokio Marine still back liquefied natural gas projects in the global epicentre of marine biodiversity, despite mounting risks to coastal communities and the clean energy transition, warned campaigners on World Oceans Day.
Policy & Finance
Asean needs to improve acceptance of ‘amber’ transition activities: finance leaders
The region's sustainable finance taxonomy must focus on building consensus around firms moving away from fossil fuels for the classification system to be successful in driving regional decarbonisation.
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asia can tap bond markets, improve taxonomies to fill adaptation finance gap: report
Countries in the region should also prepare to rely less on developed countries for adaptation finance, recommended the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Journalists in regions more vulnerable to climate change, particularly in Asia and Africa, were found to face more physical risks than their colleagues in Europe and the Americas, based on new research backed by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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16 December 2025
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