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Carbon & Climate
Who will pay to preserve tropical forests?
For decades, the international community has acknowledged the extraordinary value of tropical forests while failing to invest adequately in their conservation. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, launched at last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, could help close this financing gap.
With regional diplomacy and Singapore’s haze law offering victims slow responses, Indonesia’s own courts may be the most promising route to compensation. A recent procedural rule eases the hardest part of any haze lawsuit – proving whose fires caused the harm.
Carbon & Climate
Breaking Southeast Asia’s fire and haze cycle through certification and coordinated action
EB Studio
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.
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10 September 2026
3 September 2026
Food & Agriculture
Southeast Asia holds the key to nature-positive palm oil
7 April 2026
4 March 2026
Carbon & Climate
Rethinking Malaysia’s path to net zero
14 January 2026
Corporate Responsibility
Sustainability reporting tools must bridge impacts of local businesses and Earth's limits
24 December 2025
Carbon & Climate
‘They invite us to speak, but not to decide’
15 December 2025
1 December 2025
Carbon & Climate
A new opening for a fossil fuel phase out?
15 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
29 May 2025
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
20 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
16 January 2025
21 November 2024
Food & Agriculture
Plantations are not forests
10 September 2024
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