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Policy & Finance

Climate and development finance must be integrated

Much of the international community has been under the illusion that climate action and development are different pursuits. But to make progress on both agendas, the delegates at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference must recognise that they are one and the same, and begin building an integrated financing system.
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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

How to measure climate progress

Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come.
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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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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

27 October 2025

Unlocking capital for sustainability Malaysia July 2025

Policy & Finance

While the West retreats, Asia powers ahead on sustainable finance

3 October 2025

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Energy

Clean energy is inevitable despite Trump

16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot

25 August 2025

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Policy & Finance

Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash

28 July 2025

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Carbon & Climate

The World Court finally opens the door to 'climate reparations'

23 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

COP30 must make good on past climate commitments

22 July 2025

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Energy

Rethinking energy security in a net zero world

1 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

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

27 May 2025

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Policy & Finance

Navigating the global convergence of sustainability disclosure standards – what boards need to know

15 April 2025

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Policy & Finance

Can COP30 succeed where COP29 failed?

12 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’

27 December 2024

COP29 Activists put up their arms

Carbon & Climate

The world cannot wait: Multilateralism is only hope to fight climate change

11 December 2024

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Policy & Finance

Did COP29 fail women?

20 November 2024

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Policy & Finance

COP29 must deliver the goods

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