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Policy & Finance

Philippines digital boom fuels disinformation targeting Indigenous Peoples: study

As online platforms expand throughout the country, red tagging and fabricating Indigenous consent can spread faster, enabling land grabs and rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples, found research by nonprofit Asia Centre.
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Carbon & Climate

Trump’s team weighs COP attendance, but influence looms either way

The US will be a major influence at the global COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November, whether it attends or not.
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Waste

Lobby group rep raises alarm at HK event with ‘denialist’ claim that plastics don’t harm humans or marine ecosystems

Comments made by materials scientist Chris DeArmitt that plastics are not toxic and their impact on ecosystems has been overstated became the centre of debate at the ReThink sustainability conference. An NGO appealed to DeArmitt's audience to carefully review the science.
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Energy

Anti-renewables rhetoric? Decoding the playbook for slowing Asia’s energy transition

Disinformation on solar and wind energy, fueled by Trump, has stalled projects in the West. In Asia, the world's most fossil fuels-dependent region, renewables misinformation has helped to slow the energy transition.

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