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A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

Carbon & Climate

We don’t want others to take advantage of Asean’s rich mineral resources: Philippine environment policymaker

Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.
A flaring oil plant in Malaysia

Energy

‘Regulation, measurement needed to curb methane emissions’: Experts on abating potent greenhouse gas

EB Studio Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant in Southeast Asia, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.
Typhoon Fung-wong_L&D

Policy & Finance

‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer

At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.
Bristol climate strike

Carbon & Climate

How middle income countries are reshaping climate leadership ahead of COP30, with WRI chief Ani Dasgupta

With clear climate policies and actions, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are filling the vacuum left by the United States. This article features the second half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the climate COPs.

All #adaptation Podcasts

5 November 2025

COP30 podcast cover

Carbon & Climate

'Money has always been the big fight': assessing COP30's key battlegrounds with Third World Network's Meena Raman

6 October 2025

Typhoon Wipha flooding_Philippines

Cities

‘Resilience has limits’: ICSC’s Kairos dela Cruz on Filipinos fighting back against flood control corruption

18 June 2025

A report by WWF finds that Hong Kong could lose 25 per cent of its biodiversity to new developments such as the North Metropolis.

Cities

'Listen to ecologists – don't bury nature under cement': Hong Kong faces acute biodiversity loss as megaprojects loom

23 April 2025

Hurricane Katrina by satellite

Carbon & Climate

America's attack on climate science could affect adaptation capacity in Asia: climate scientist Ben Horton

5 November 2024

EB Podcast with IPCC

Carbon & Climate

IPCC expert on fighting to keep to the science as global climate politics flares

2 August 2024

EB podcast Goumbook 02

Water

Only deserts, with nothing to conserve? Social enterprise Goumbook on why the Middle East needs an oceans initiative

26 October 2023

IP Tebtebba

Policy & Finance

‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz

11 September 2023

Cantilan Bank aftermath of Rai_EB podcast logo

Policy & Finance

‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier

16 August 2023

"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.

Carbon & Climate

‘A 1.1°C warmer world is already a matter of life and death’: Climate scientist Winston Chow

22 March 2022

EB podcast IPCC authors

Carbon & Climate

Relentless work, for no money: Southeast Asian climate scientists share their IPCC experience

8 February 2021

Malampaya natural gas2

Energy

Gas is still needed in the Philippines’ clean energy transition: PEIC chief Don Paulino

25 August 2020

Filipino commuters during Covid. Image: Commuters of Metro Manila

Policy & Finance

How can the Philippines make a green recovery in the Covid era?

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