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Opinion / #floods
In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods. The failure was not forecasting, but what happened – or didn’t – after the alarms were raised.
Carbon & Climate
As climate diplomacy stalls, the economics are racing ahead
Despite political gridlock within countries and at global summits, climate change and ecological degradation are creating undeniable economic momentum. As renewables scale up, fossil fuels will become even less competitive; and as ecosystems degrade, markets will price in the risks and reward those who adapt.
Corporate Responsibility
Sustainability reporting tools must bridge impacts of local businesses and Earth’s limits
Sustainability standards and ratings do not generate enough information for businesses to understand their environmental impacts across scales and create mitigation plans to avoid further transgression of planetary boundaries.
Carbon & Climate
How insurance can transform our resilience to climate shocks
From Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean to floods in Southeast Asia, insurance is an underused tool for adaptation to climate extremes.
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23 December 2025
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Manufacturing
Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?
18 December 2025
Policy & Finance
India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities
16 December 2025
Food & Agriculture
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
8 December 2025
13 November 2025
Carbon & Climate
Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty
11 November 2025
18 September 2025
Carbon & Climate
Why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war
16 September 2025
Policy & Finance
Climate resilience is a strategic investment
28 July 2025
Carbon & Climate
The World Court finally opens the door to 'climate reparations'
25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Nature risk is financial risk
20 June 2025
Carbon & Climate
In defence of science: Let’s tell the truth on climate and health
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Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them
9 May 2025
Policy & Finance
How to defuse the climate-debt time bomb for small island states
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