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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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Cities

What happened to gender equality in 2025

Progress is fragile and 2026 must be the year of action and accountability on gender rights.
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Carbon & Climate

COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm

As the host of this year's UN Climate Change Conference, Brazil seeks to make COP30 the “COP of implementation.” Translating commitments into robust action should include providing indigenous peoples with direct access to predictable and sustainable finance, and treating them as equal partners, rather than as beneficiaries.
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Carbon & Climate

From Rio to Belém: The long unravelling of climate consensus

Three decades after the optimism of the 1992 Earth Summit, the climate regime faces a tough test. The retreat of multilateralism and the rules-based international order has left COP30 struggling to hold together the fading promise of global action.

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13 November 2025

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Food & Agriculture

India’s farm policies behind bad air, unhealthy diet, water crisis

21 October 2025

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power

6 October 2025

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Cities

Gen Z’s challenge to elite dominance in South Asia

1 October 2025

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Policy & Finance

Beyond resumption of China-India dialogue, unresolved issues persist

16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot

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Cities

Hashtags hurt, hashtags heal too

25 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash

5 August 2025

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Cities

Does Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, fit into the president’s long-term vision?

25 July 2025

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Cities

Bulldozing Bali's Bingin Beach misses the real threat of overdevelopment

1 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

How far has the dial really moved in climate finance since COP29?

20 June 2025

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Cities

Why COP30 must ramp up climate finance for cities

21 April 2025

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Water

Water for peace: What Bangladesh wants from the Ganga Water Treaty

29 March 2025

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Cities

Toxic air is killing our kids, parents must demand clean energy

26 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

Shake it up, don’t shoot it down: the case for reforming US aid

24 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

Aid cuts could erase women from public life

5 March 2025

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Cities

India needs to redefine 'urban'

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