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Energy

Latest Asean energy outlook ditches carbon neutrality pathway, projects higher emissions by 2050

Asean’s official energy outlook, endorsed by its energy ministers on 8 October, reveals a gap between the region’s energy plans and its members’ net-zero pledges, and allows new coal plants to be built even in its lowest-emissions scenario.
Tom Beloe, UNDP's Sustainable Finance Hub Director keynote at CASI

Policy & Finance

Climate insurance could save small businesses. Why is it so hard to reach them?

SMEs form the backbone of Asia’s supply chains and labour force across Asia’s emerging markets, yet many struggle to access the finance and insurance needed to withstand climate shocks. Eco-Business speaks to UNDP’s Tom Beloe in Hong Kong, who explains what it will take to reach them.
Water is becoming a factor that can shape where companies invest, how much they can produce and how resilient their supply chains will be

Water

Southeast Asia’s growth is getting thirstier – and businesses are taking notice

EB Studio As industrialisation, digital infrastructure and climate pressures reshape demand, companies are being pushed to look beyond how much water they consume and ask whether the wider systems they depend on can sustain long-term growth.
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Policy & Finance

Climate adaptation and resilience need its own investment language: MAS

Investors need a clearer way to measure and value resilience as Asia faces rising climate risks, according to Singapore's financial regulator, with the absence of a common metric making adaptation harder to finance at scale.

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Corporate Responsibility

Asian insurers slow to curb LNG cover in marine-rich Coral Triangle

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Policy & Finance

Asean needs to improve acceptance of 'amber' transition activities: finance leaders

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia can tap bond markets, improve taxonomies to fill adaptation finance gap: report

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Policy & Finance

Asia's climate journalists among those most physically threatened for their work

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Cities

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