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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate action requires debt relief

...floods can wipe out critical infrastructure and cripple agricultural production in an instant, while slower-onset changes like rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns require continuous and...

5 May 2025

Climate action requires debt relief

News / Water

Restoration of India’s Yamuna River blighted by concrete

...flooding, and suggested there was no need to plant anything. “Since the floodplain terrain is characterised by marshes and catchment wetlands, they naturally support flood-tolerant grasses,” he said. ...

27 Dec 2024

Restoration of India’s Yamuna River blighted by concrete

News / Carbon & Climate

UNEP warns of a 1.5°C overshoot. Philippine fishers are already paying the price

...floods are a warning of what lies ahead,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the report’s launch. “We must make the overshoot above 1.5 degrees as small and short as possible. That demands ...

24 Sep 2026

UNEP warns of a 1.5°C overshoot. Philippine fishers are already paying the price

News / Water

Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64 cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300

...flooding, erosion and saltwater intrusion. The authors of the new study explain that emissions released over the coming decades will affect global sea levels for hundreds of years. This is because the...

21 Nov 2025

Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64 cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300

Opinion / Water

India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects increasing vulnerability to climate change

...floods affected nearly 5.8 million people in Bangladesh. Some Bangladeshi officials accused India of releasing excess water from a large dam upstream without warning. India denied responsibility, citi...

13 May 2025

India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects increasing vulnerability to climate change

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them

...floods displaced thousands and overwhelmed emergency services. People in the United States are suffering severe health impacts caused by climate-exacerbated wildfires - from respiratory illnesses caus...

19 Jun 2025

Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them

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

Podcasts / Cities

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

...flood mitigation systems. And you think, well, the fish ponds, wetlands, and natural slopes – that is our natural flood mitigation system." The ecologist warned that hyper-development through projects...

18 Jun 2025

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

Press Releases / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions

...floods will endanger agriculture and energy systems. In Southeast Asia, nearly 100 per cent of the population is at risk of floods under 2°C warming, with the Mekong River Basin emerging as ...

20 Jan 2025

Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions

News / Manufacturing

Q&A: How can fashion workers adapt to climate change?

...floods over the last two decades, according to the Cornell University report published in December. Judd spoke with Context and his interview has been edited for length and clarity. Why is there limit...

14 Mar 2025

Q&A: How can fashion workers adapt to climate change?

News / Energy

Tragedy haunts community near Sumatra’s largest floating solar farm

...flood careening into the family’s small food store, and the totality of destruction to the community mosque. Dozens died here in Guguak Malalo ward, Tanah Datar district, in the Indonesian province of...

14 Mar 2025

Tragedy haunts community near Sumatra’s largest floating solar farm

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why India may suffer longer heatwaves and floods this year

...floods. How do we understand this forecast of above-normal summer heat followed by above-average rainfall? Several interconnected meteorological and climatic phenomena underpin these predictions. “ T...

6 May 2025

Why India may suffer longer heatwaves and floods this year

News / Cities

Bhutan’s growing migration wave demands better planning

...floods. A particularly devastating example in 2000 displaced nearly 200 families and left several factories damaged. Kinley, another migrant worker originally from eastern Bhutan, was at work when flo...

20 Mar 2025

Bhutan’s growing migration wave demands better planning

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Early warning systems save lives but more funding is critical

...flooding before they occur. Whether looking months or just days ahead, they allow individuals and communities to anticipate the impact on food supplies, plan for how to manage crops and herds, and pla...

10 Feb 2025

Early warning systems save lives but more funding is critical

Attendees to the Sustainability Youth Festival 2026. The demand for green jobs in Singapore is high, although the pipeline for available positions is constricting. Image: EB Impact

News / Corporate Responsibility

As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check

...flood protection and water conservation projects. A team from EcoRind Creations present their idea of biodegradable tableware made from watermelon skins at the OCBC TSYF Changemaker Challenge. Image:...

19 May 2026

As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check

News / Carbon & Climate

Malaysian climate watchdog takes government to court over greenwashing oversight

...flooding have filed lawsuits accusing authorities of failing to implement climate-resilient development, while in the Philippines, survivors of Super Typhoon Rai launched legal action against Shell, a...

30 Dec 2025

Malaysian climate watchdog takes government to court over greenwashing oversight

News / Carbon & Climate

Crowd-sourcing data could help Philippines tackle deadly floods

...flooding in their area to contribute to the project's flood hazard models. He said the reports would help test the accuracy of current models and correlate the amount of rain to the actual level of fl...

7 Oct 2024

Crowd-sourcing data could help Philippines tackle deadly floods

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate costs mount, US communities look to the courts

As floods wash away roads and bridges, high temperatures buckle train rails and wildfires wipe out neighborhoods, the direct costs of climate change are increasingly being borne by local governments ...

6 Feb 2025

As climate costs mount, US communities look to the courts

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News / Energy

'Threat to climate information integrity': Big Oil unleashed internet ad blitz ahead of COP30

Oil companies sharply escalated their Google advertising campaigns in the lead-up to COP30, with Big Oil multiplying its ads nearly thirtyfold between September and October alone, according to a new r...

24 Nov 2025

'Threat to climate information integrity': Big Oil unleashed internet ad blitz ahead of COP30

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News / Food & Agriculture

Philippine Indigenous communities lead forest restoration to mitigate urban flooding

...flood control by temporarily storing and gradually releasing water to reduce flood peaks. However, upland forest degradation has weakened this function, a concern that gained wider public attention on...

24 Jan 2025

Philippine Indigenous communities lead forest restoration to mitigate urban flooding

News / Cities

India must get serious about flood zoning

...floods during the past five years. Sitharaman’s speech made no mention of flood zoning, the process of identifying and categorising areas based on their vulnerability to flooding. This often involves ...

5 Sep 2024

India must get serious about flood zoning

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