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Carbon & Climate
Rethinking Malaysia’s path to net zero
Carbon credits to be tabled under Malaysia’s new climate change bill should serve as a bridge towards decarbonisation rather than a substitute for it.
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
‘They invite us to speak, but not to decide’
There was no shortage of Indigenous representatives at COP30, but the conference did not always seem to be listening, writes Dunio Chiriap Jimbicti.
COP30 delivered gains on climate finance and forests but stalled on fossil fuel phaseout – exposing both the limits of consensus talks and the growing role of action outside negotiations.
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1 December 2025
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A new opening for a fossil fuel phase out?
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Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
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Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
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How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
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Plantations are not forests
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Habitat destruction hurting more than climate change
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How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet
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Carbon & Climate
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