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Policy & Finance
How do we enhance climate investments into the Asean?
As Asean's 2026 chair, the Philippines must align climate plans, investment incentives and measurable outcomes to turn ambition into bankable projects.
Policy & Finance
A new paradigm for global health financing
As aid flows decline, more countries are articulating a new vision in which health financing would build on national resources, answer to domestic priorities, and remain accountable to their own citizens. Such a change is long overdue, and it can be achieved by pursuing reforms in three areas.
Carbon & Climate
Will the US climate war with Canada become global?
For the first time, a great power has moved to price transboundary climate-driven harms–massive wildfires–and extract compensation unilaterally. What was previously a development, insurance, or emissions-accounting issue is now a security and trade dispute between two G7 economies, setting a precedent that others may try to follow.
All #financing Opinion
28 July 2026
Policy & Finance
Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN
13 July 2026
Carbon & Climate
Why climate adaptation is Malaysia’s next investment frontier
26 June 2026
24 June 2026
Food & Agriculture
What the Iran war taught the world about food security
22 June 2026
Policy & Finance
How (not) to conserve tropical forests
15 June 2026
9 June 2026
24 May 2026
Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel investments are a fiduciary risk
22 May 2026
Policy & Finance
Sustainable economies will own the future
13 May 2026
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Policy & Finance
Beyond green extractivism: Asean's security depends on justice
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Carbon & Climate
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