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Carbon & Climate
How can the same El Niño cause drought in one part of the world and floods in another?
El Niño’s shifting ocean temperatures can disrupt atmospheric circulation worldwide – raising the risk of drought in some regions while bringing heavier rainfall and flooding to others.
Carbon & Climate
How fossil fuel lobby is undermining democracy
Corporate lobbying, political donations and manufactured public support are helping fossil fuel corporations obstruct climate action in Australia. The key to overcoming the influence of polluters lies in understanding who shapes climate policy, and how.
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.
As environmental disasters increasingly spill across borders, timely and transparent crisis communication is becoming an important test of Indonesia’s regional leadership and diplomacy.
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5 October 2026
29 September 2026
Policy & Finance
Warming Himalayas: Nepal’s climate justice test
Carbon & Climate
What it means for global warming to exceed 1.5°C
25 September 2026
Carbon & Climate
Can adaptation accelerate climate action?
21 September 2026
Policy & Finance
A workable social contract for the climate transition
Carbon & Climate
Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?
12 September 2026
Policy & Finance
War and climate
9 September 2026
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Policy & Finance
Asia's natural disasters must not become financial crises
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26 June 2026
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Food & Agriculture
Taking women farmers seriously
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