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Terengganu floods

As climate risks become financial risks, investing in resilience is essential to protecting economic growth, attracting capital and securing Malaysia’s long-term prosperity.

13 Jul 2026

A city view of Hanoi, Vietnam

Investors and governments are not short of money – they are trapped in a system that rewards transactions over transformation.

Unlocking capital for sustainability Malaysia July 2025

Even as political denial and regulatory paralysis grip parts of the West, a different message has been resounding across Asia – it is not retreating, but rising to the occasion.

Hornbill_Nature_Universal_Declaration

The ‘rights of nature’ is an allied approach, but nature needs something with more and broader teeth, that can elicit a moral and political consensus on the need for nature conservation.

3 September 2024

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28 December 2023

Women delegate COP28 Dubai

10 February 2022

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8 February 2022

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27 October 2021

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12 July 2021

notice about the shortage of Covid-19 vaccine supplies India

8 January 2021

‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

18 December 2018

Take all my money

5 October 2018

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15 August 2018

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5 October 2017

A banana farmer in Nepal

17 August 2016

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7 March 2016

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30 November 2015

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