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Policy & Finance

India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities

Economic liberalisation in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.
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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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Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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Carbon & Climate

Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty

This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts.

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11 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: What to expect at COP30 climate talks

10 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

What COP30 must do

6 October 2025

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Cities

Gen Z’s challenge to elite dominance in South Asia

29 September 2025

Young_Farmer_Dak_Lak_Vietnam

Food & Agriculture

Reimagining agriculture for young people

12 September 2025

pacific island children

Carbon & Climate

With global powers barred, can Pacific nations find unity at their annual summit?

25 August 2025

Bank for International Settlements

Policy & Finance

Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash

5 August 2025

Indonesians gather to see the Garuda palace at Nusantara, East Kalimantan

Cities

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

25 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Asian universities rise in global sustainability leadership rankings

22 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Financing for development must account for women

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Policy & Finance

India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias

Brasil_Pavillion_COP29

Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature

19 June 2025

Indigenous_Women_COP30

Policy & Finance

Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it

6 May 2025

Indigenous_Woman_Weaving_Cotabato

Policy & Finance

Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance

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Policy & Finance

Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights

16 April 2025

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Policy & Finance

Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid

8 April 2025

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Food & Agriculture

Migrant agriculture workers: potential resource for Southeast Asia’s food-resilient future

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