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EB Podcast climate insurance

Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.

15 Feb 2024

Smoke from burning land in Indonesia

EB Studio Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

EB podcast - Kerry alternative milk

EB Studio Plant-based milks have grown in popularity in recent years, driven by a combination of health, environmental and practical concerns. Nutritionists on the Eco-Business podcast, produced in association with Kerry, weigh the pros and cons of non-dairy milk.

7 March 2023

Apa Kata Wanita Orang Asli EB podcast

19 January 2023

Alternative proteins podcast 2

21 September 2022

Food podcast planet-based diets

31 August 2022

Plant-based food

24 August 2022

An Eco-Business debate in 2019

20 May 2022

Ice caps and a warming planet

22 March 2022

EB podcast IPCC authors

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Layman albatross

24 May 2021

4 December 2020

Will Asia dine on plant-based eggs?

2 June 2020

Child labour on palm oil plantation

19 November 2019

A coffee bush in Sumatra. Image: Olam

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Smallholders in palm oil industry

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oil palm plantation workers take a rest from work

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woman oil palm plantation worker

13 February 2019

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