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Opinion / #deforestation
Carbon & Climate
Breaking Southeast Asia’s fire and haze cycle through certification and coordinated action
Stronger standards and fire prevention can help, but lasting progress requires action across industries, governments and communities.
Carbon & Climate
Regional haze casts a pall on Asean’s influence
The return of smoke haze underscores a sobering reality: while Asean has policies designed to combat it, the problem continues to occur.
Policy & Finance
War and climate
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz showed how quickly a regional conflict can throw global energy markets into chaos. By pushing governments toward coal and biofuels, the war could accelerate deforestation and undermine climate negotiations, with environmental consequences that will linger long after the fighting ends.
Food & Agriculture
Southeast Asia holds the key to nature-positive palm oil
A nature-positive approach to agriculture, and specifically palm oil plantations, can marry mandates with production.
All #deforestation Opinion
22 June 2026
Policy & Finance
How (not) to conserve tropical forests
19 May 2026
16 February 2026
Corporate Responsibility
Companies should be held accountable for the safety of wildlife in their concessions
8 December 2025
11 November 2025
16 September 2025
Policy & Finance
Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot
5 August 2025
25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Nature risk is financial risk
2 July 2025
Food & Agriculture
Fighting meat with emotions, not facts
20 June 2025
29 May 2025
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
25 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Central banks must stem the nature crisis
24 March 2025
Transport
Can the shipping industry decarbonise?
20 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
18 February 2025
Food & Agriculture
Reconciling Indonesia’s food sufficiency ambitions with climate commitments
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