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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.
Gap between principle and practice risks widening if the country does not more fully include Indigenous people in its climate action plan.
The environment department has since paused the Manila operations amid public backlash but insists tree-cutting in Manila and Palawan complies with safeguards and will be offset by seedling replacement. Environmental and public transportation advocates counter that tree protection is a more sustainable approach.
Carbon & Climate
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
Climate change ambassador Ravi Menon set out a three-pronged strategy to scale nature-based carbon markets in Southeast Asia, as corporates like CDL and Olam Agri told a panel at SGX Centre that nature disclosures are starting to unlock cheaper loans and shape investment decisions.
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