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Developing countries call for more support to fight global warming at a climate ambition summit which failed to attract the world's biggest emitters.

COP28 faces extra pressure to shift world from fossil fuels after many leaders criticise oil, coal and gas at UN climate summit.

By continuing to approve new coal power plants and polluting factories, China’s local governments are courting future environmental and economic problems.

Urban heat islands can face higher temperatures than green or rural areas, increasing risk of illness and death for city residents.

By Gabrielle See

SciDev Net

By Robin Hicks

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently. By Jessica Cheam

Despite the challenges of addressing climate change, technology and innovation are accelerating the net-zero transition. By Benedict Macon-Cooney and Tone Langengen

Energy markets have failed to accelerate the deployment of renewables, but government intervention in the clean energy transition also carries risks. Having the state pick winners may lead to investment decisions that are costly. By Armond Cohen , Andreas Goldthau and Simone Tagliapietra

Even as the availability of concessional lending to Indonesia is appreciated, the country needs to keep an eye on its debt burden and try to renegotiate the terms of funding under the Just Energy Transition Partnership scheme. By Firdaus Cahyadi

By Liu Yuanling

By Aaron Vaden-Youmans, Owen Gaffney and Johan Falk

By Mia Mottley, Werner Hoyer

By Sohini Sengupta

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As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.

Researchers have invented a tiny, laser-powered bug that takes off, lands and aspires to hover wirelessly.

The increasingly competitive dynamic duo of solar photovoltaic plus battery storage is taking energy markets by storm.

Declining snowfall threatens billions in lost revenue.

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"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 Studio Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.

EB Studio As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.

EB Studio Eco-Business talks to 'Aulani Wilhelm of Conservation International about why a plan to protect the ocean is critical, and why it might just work.

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