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Carbon & Climate

What makes multinational companies conserve mangroves in India?

The country’s biggest corporate mangrove projects are yet to generate carbon credits. But they could lay the foundation for a blue carbon market, experts say.
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Policy & Finance

Q&A: ‘To avoid war, we need to invest in climate solutions’

Small island states are optimistic about the ocean but tired of richer nations’ hypocrisy over climate change, Angelique Pouponneau tells Dialogue Earth.
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Policy & Finance

Behind the race to host the high seas treaty

Chile, China and Belgium are competing to host the headquarters of a landmark global ocean treaty. But why do they care so much?
The view of Pulau Poto from Cempedak, with PT BAI's aluminium processing complex over the horizon. Image: Robin Hicks / Eco-Business

Water

NGO launches to support Bintan marine protected area

Exclusive The organisation launches with startup funding from private island resorts in Indonesia's Riau archipelago. It aims to raise awareness of the benefits of a protected marine park in an area impacted by industrial activity.

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17 March 2026

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Water

Saving seagrass meadows could protect the world’s coastlines

5 March 2026

Mangroves in Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s blue economy programmes unaffected by reported UK climate aid cuts, say project leads

11 February 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Inside Singapore’s fish port, where experts say traceability gaps risk endangered species

11 December 2025

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Policy & Finance

Philippines gets $500 million in blue economy investment from ADB

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Food & Agriculture

Indigenous voices shape fight for climate, food sovereignty from COP30 to Sri Lanka

28 October 2025

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Lifestyle

Rewilding travel: Southeast Asia’s top ecotourism destinations

3 September 2025

MTerra Solar Project

Policy & Finance

Clean energy mega-projects must benefit Filipino households: BDO Unibank on financing the world's largest solar facility

26 August 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Mangroves store ‘blue carbon’ - but they’re disappearing fast

3 July 2025

Shrimp farms in Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s aquaculture sector needs technical assistance, finance to match blue economy hype to reality: experts

2 July 2025

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Water

The fight for wetlands, wildlife and youth-led conservation in the Philippines: Matthew Vincent Tabilog

27 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

ICMA unveils new guidance for nature-themed bonds

18 June 2025

Del Carmen mangrovese Del Carmen Mangrove Reserve, located on Siargao Island in the Philippines, is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the country.

Policy & Finance

US$1 million needed to sustain blue carbon economy initiatives in the Philippines: UK conservation charity

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Carbon & Climate

Is the tide turning for ocean protection? UN conference ends with record attendance and momentum for high seas treaty

23 May 2025

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Policy & Finance

Energy secretary Raphael Lotilla appointed as Philippines’ new environment chief

20 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

To save our ocean, we need a sustainable blue economy

3 February 2025

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Carbon & Climate

85 per cent of Southeast Asia’s mangrove projects face permanence risks: study

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