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Climate tech podcast with Steve Melhuish

Entrepreneur Steve Melhuish tells the EB Podcast where the biggest opportunities to reduce emissions and make money are in Southeast Asia, and why finding the right economic incentives is critical for climate tech startups.

4 Jul 2024

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.

Manila, Philippines

EB Studio If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.

IP Tebtebba

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

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.

20 May 2022

Ice caps and a warming planet

25 April 2022

Dr Sylvia Earle podcast

25 October 2021

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18 December 2020

Blackrock podcast

5 November 2020

The billion-dollar Gardens by the Bay project is built on 101 hectares of land in Marina Bay, the heart of Singapore's Central Business District.

30 October 2020

Coal-fired power planet

8 October 2020

Indigenous community, Amazon

20 September 2020

Izzy Raj-Seppings

7 September 2020

Nodules on the deep sea floor

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Air-conditioning units on a building in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

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Filipino commuters during Covid. Image: Commuters of Metro Manila

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