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Policy & Finance

Can the Global South align the world’s carbon markets?

Brazil will chair a new body in an ambitious effort to align the world’s fragmented carbon markets – despite its own not launching until 2030.
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Energy

China can catalyse local finance for home solar in the Global South

Kenya's small-scale solar market shows how local capital can be just as important as big China-funded renewables projects.
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Policy & Finance

Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing: report

About 42 million hectares of forest remain within logging, oil palm, timber, and rubber concessions across the region, a new report finds. Conserving them through carbon markets alone would require carbon prices far above current levels.
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Carbon & Climate

Thai lawmaker seeks panel to review AI data centres’ environmental impact

A Thai member of parliament has called for the formation of a new committee to scrutinise the development of new data centres.

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28 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

As new sources of climate finance grow, the poorest are neglected

15 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

MDBs hit record $163bn in climate finance, but advocates question support for poorest countries

8 July 2026

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Cities

As Pakistan’s monsoon arrives, people with HIV worry

6 July 2026

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Policy & Finance

World Bank’s China exit could lead to ‘shrinking balance sheet’, says green finance specialist

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Energy

Cambodia’s grid has reached people who can’t connect to it

25 May 2026

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Policy & Finance

Transition finance needs ‘realism’, not reliance on private capital alone, says Prudential chair

15 May 2026

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Waste

Indonesian schoolboy takes on waste crisis as reform push grows

5 May 2026

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Energy

Vietnam’s race to go nuclear leaves villagers in limbo

11 April 2026

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Policy & Finance

Q&A: ‘If you are in the business of peace, you must talk to those who are at war’

8 April 2026

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Policy & Finance

ADB unveils US$25 million fund to advance Asean Power Grid

31 March 2026

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Energy

The Gulf conflict shows climate finance must evolve to withstand geopolitics

13 March 2026

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Waste

Pakistan plans plastic reform: Its informal recyclers hold the key

23 February 2026

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Water

World Bank set to approve proposed $270 million water and sanitation projects in the Philippines

22 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third

19 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

How the Philippines can leverage its Asean chairship to meet climate goals

11 December 2025

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Policy & Finance

Philippines gets $500 million in blue economy investment from ADB

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