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Last year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) ended with a historic agreement to provide financial assistance to developing countries suffering the adverse effects of global warming. But to ensure the fund operates as intended, it is crucial to enter COP28 with a clear, detailed, and unified strategy for implementation.

26 May 2023

The Seychelles

The international community has recognised the special circumstances facing small island developing states, but has done little more to help. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the global financial system, where SIDS often must fend for themselves – small fish at the mercy of predatory sharks.

Singapore City Skyline

The lack of shared standards and transparent methodologies for environmental, social, and governance ratings leads to the mispricing of stocks and bonds, and undermines effective decision-making by investors. As more governments are recognising, regulatory intervention is urgently needed.

Foreign currencies

Emerging markets are in urgent need of financing to support their low-carbon transition. While the world's attention has been shifting to attracting international private finance into the developing world, mobilising domestic capital will be just as important.

17 April 2023

World Bank Spring Meetings 2023

6 April 2023

PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA)

5 April 2023

woman farmer in bangladesh

4 April 2023

People's Bank of China

3 April 2023

inequality protest

29 March 2023

Asean Japan international symposium

24 March 2023

Pipeline_Water_Mumbai_India

23 March 2023

Petronas_Fountain_At_Night_Bursa

20 March 2023

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1 March 2023

Oskarshamn nuclear power station

17 February 2023

Vietnam wind turbine towers

14 February 2023

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9 February 2023

Indian_Women_Inequality

6 February 2023

17 January 2023

Vietnam_children_philanthropy

28 December 2022

Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Bali, Indonesia

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