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Insurers can reduce risk for more early coal phase-outs: Swiss Re

...t. What has changed is that we don't want to continue protecting them. It's not that there is any innovation required. So the cool thing is not in the innovation. The very cool thing is that we talk ...

21 Nov 2023

Insurers can reduce risk for more early coal phase-outs: Swiss Re

News / Food & Agriculture

Women farmers shine as 'super-heroes' in India's climate fight

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit https://www.context...

30 Nov 2023

Women farmers shine as 'super-heroes' in India's climate fight

News / Cities

In West Bank, Israeli army operation batters war-depleted economy

...t state, since the 1967 Middle East war. It has built Jewish settlements there that most countries deem illegal. Israel disputes this and cites historical and Biblical ties to the land. The United Nat...

9 Feb 2025

In West Bank, Israeli army operation batters war-depleted economy

News / Carbon & Climate

Countries eye COP29 finance deal while subsidising climate damage

...ts of transport or irrigation, which in turn may badly impact workers and the poor unless proactive measures are taken to protect them. "Any attempt at reform or phase-out tends to be extremely conte...

21 Nov 2024

Countries eye COP29 finance deal while subsidising climate damage

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News / Waste

Philippines’ zero-waste bid relies on informal workers

...ttlements Programme, or UN-Habitat, to receive training on waste management and funding to expand their operations. But most communities struggle to collect and repurpose waste in a country that devot...

13 Jan 2025

Philippines’ zero-waste bid relies on informal workers

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

...tors to scale climate action? I think on the issue of financial institutions backing or not backing the EU deforestation law, just to be precise on that one – the statements that financial institutio...

2 Nov 2023

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

News / Policy & Finance

Oxfam Asia doubles down on questioning multilateral banks' pursuit of private climate finance

...trument that favours them to meet the quantum figure rather than look at what is needed for the countries most vulnerable to climate impacts. I believe that is their intention. Negotiators from develo...

15 Jan 2025

Oxfam Asia doubles down on questioning multilateral banks' pursuit of private climate finance

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous women are on nature's front lines but get little funding

...tions about their capacities and doubts about their ability to manage projects," said Omaira Bolaños, Latin America director of the Rights and Resources Initiative, which produced the report with the ...

11 Nov 2024

Indigenous women are on nature's front lines but get little funding

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News / Green Buildings

Future-proofing the Philippines means rethinking how infrastructure is built and managed

...ted on bamboo stilts to withstand floods, with thatched roofs that kept the sun out and cool air in. The use of bamboo – a strong yet flexible material – allowed the structure to bend rather than brea...

20 May 2025

Future-proofing the Philippines means rethinking how infrastructure is built and managed

USAID Philippines humanitarian assistance

News / Policy & Finance

‘Not as easy as filling USAID’s gap’: How philanthropies in Southeast Asia are stepping up

...ts – to existing affected partners, who make up about a tenth of its portfolio. But the foundation has also allocated an additional budget this year to extend support to non-existing partners via refe...

16 Apr 2025

‘Not as easy as filling USAID’s gap’: How philanthropies in Southeast Asia are stepping up

Press Releases / UN Women

Accelerating progress on gender equality key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals

...that translate international guidance on gender equality into local initiatives. The accelerators are built on successful joint programmes with UN partners and tested approaches offered to the Reside...

8 Sep 2024

Accelerating progress on gender equality key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals

News / Lifestyle

Chief sustainability officers are burning out. Has the role become unsustainable?

...to take the time to understand the culture, particularly in conservative Asian firms," says the executive, noting that it took her more than two years to get her colleagues on the right side of the su...

15 May 2024

Chief sustainability officers are burning out. Has the role become unsustainable?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How sea ice blew the socks off scientists

...th the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership at the University of Tasmania. Assistant Professor Takenobu Toyota works for the Institute of Low Temperature Science at Hokkaido University in Japan. T...

24 Jan 2024

How sea ice blew the socks off scientists

News / Policy & Finance

On blended finance, bold leadership and Asia's green future

...t of private capital was reluctant to come into this conversation, we’re starting to see development banks, governments, and philanthropic capital coming into de-risk the first part. The catalytic fin...

14 May 2025

On blended finance, bold leadership and Asia's green future

News / Carbon & Climate

The language of climate delay in 2024

...ted in a positive light to have taken a "policy shift" to be supportive of caps on plastic production before its negotiators headed for the plastic treaty negotiations. But it turned out that the Amer...

10 Dec 2024

The language of climate delay in 2024

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous women are on nature's front lines but get little funding

1 Nov 2024

Indigenous women are on nature's front lines but get little funding

Cate Harris, group head of sustainability, Lendlease.

News / Green Buildings

‘Our change alone is not going to create the transformation we need’: Lendlease group sustainability head

...t think it’s just Lendlease pushing out something that no one else can do, but the industry has been really open to it. At the moment, lots of the climate targets organisations have put out are just a...

22 Mar 2024

‘Our change alone is not going to create the transformation we need’: Lendlease group sustainability head

News / Policy & Finance

Climate talks avoid collapse with last-hour US$300 billion deal seen as dissatisfactory by developing states

...t to extreme weather events. On Saturday, negotiators representing small island states and the least developed countries in the world staged a walkout after lamenting that they "don't feel heard" at t...

25 Nov 2024

Climate talks avoid collapse with last-hour US$300 billion deal seen as dissatisfactory by developing states

News / Carbon & Climate

CIMB to stop financing new upstream oil fields from 2025

...Tracker at non-profit research outfit Global Energy Monitor. He pointed out that alignment with the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) or Paris Agreement typically involve commitment to the most ...

10 Jul 2024

CIMB to stop financing new upstream oil fields from 2025

Celine Lim delivering a letter to Buckingham Palace in January 2023

News / Food & Agriculture

Indigenous activist on how to confront powerful forces to protect Malaysian forests and people – and win

...te for almost two years. It attracted a lot of attention. Filmmakers and the media visited the site, which created a large supporter base for the campaign. We insituted a rotation system so that there...

2 Feb 2024

Indigenous activist on how to confront powerful forces to protect Malaysian forests and people – and win

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