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Typhoon Haiyan Devastates the Philippines

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Asian countries need better climate adaptation plans to attract private investment: report

As climate change increases flood risk, heat and water stress, governments across Asia urgently need private investments to back their public spending on climate adaptation. However, the biggest Asian...

7 Mar 2025

Asian countries need better climate adaptation plans to attract private investment: report

News / Water

India-Pakistan water pact ‘outdated’ in climate era

...floods, environmental degradation in the delta and high rates of malnourishment in Pakistan’s irrigated districts.” If renegotiated, the treaty could potentially benefit from the 2014 UN Watercourses ...

5 Jun 2025

India-Pakistan water pact ‘outdated’ in climate era

Press Releases / Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

Philippines hosts first regional policy dialogue on loss and damage for Southeast Asia

The Philippines, through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) hosted a regional policy dialogue on Loss and Damage marking the first in a series of Asean-level discussions ai...

25 Aug 2025

Philippines hosts first regional policy dialogue on loss and damage for Southeast Asia

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IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy

...flooding during wet seasons and provide water in dry seasons. Biodiversity also “underpins genetic diversity” that informs the development of products in many industries, including pharmaceuticals an...

10 Feb 2026

IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy

News / Cities

Trees are natural ACs for cities, if you plant the right ones

...flood prevention, biodiversity and air quality, he points out. “There’s a balance between all of these different considerations in determining whether tree canopy expansion is the best solution to red...

9 Oct 2025

Trees are natural ACs for cities, if you plant the right ones

News / Water

Will a giant sea wall save Indonesia's economic heartland from rising sea levels?

...flooding and land subsidence. The northern part of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city, has been sinking by up to 25 centimetres a year. Indonesia's presidential envoy for climate and energy, Hashim Suj...

28 Feb 2025

Will a giant sea wall save Indonesia's economic heartland from rising sea levels?

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Asean can lead on tackling climate's ‘low hanging fruits’ but world's financial system needs reform: global affairs expert

...floods, heatwaves and sea-level rise that require climate-resilient infrastructure in place. “We have a long coastline. We have a population to protect. These are the big challenges we haven't really ...

1 Aug 2025

Asean can lead on tackling climate's ‘low hanging fruits’ but world's financial system needs reform: global affairs expert

Person holding there is no planet b poster

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

...floods, fires and heatwaves grow in number and severity, impacting billions of people, we also approach tipping points for large Earth regulating systems like the Amazon rainforest and the Greenland a...

26 Nov 2025

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

News / Food & Agriculture

Cash crop boom in Bangladesh’s hills puts ecosystems at risk

...floods affecting the lives and livelihood of the people. Despite the environmental and ecological degradation, Sheikh Saleh Ahammed, vice chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, said he ...

18 Mar 2026

Cash crop boom in Bangladesh’s hills puts ecosystems at risk

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Central banks must stem the nature crisis

The ten most expensive climate disasters of 2024 – the hottest year on record – cost more than US$229 billion, while extreme weather events have left fewer and fewer countries unscathed. Deadly floo...

25 Mar 2025

Central banks must stem the nature crisis

News / Energy

Explainer: How Laos’ role as Southeast Asia’s ‘battery’ is changing

Following a spate of foreign investment in the 1990s, Laos began producing surplus electricity and looked to export it. Today, around 80 per cent of its energy, largely from hydropower, is sold to nei...

12 Sep 2026

Explainer: How Laos’ role as Southeast Asia’s ‘battery’ is changing

News / Cities

No evidence that cloud seeding can cut air pollution: experts

...flooding. But Agrawal says this uncertainty is “one of the reasons we need more data to understand how we can better deal with consequences such as natural rain and artificial rain coinciding.” Howeve...

4 Dec 2025

No evidence that cloud seeding can cut air pollution: experts

News / Policy & Finance

Is climate finance reaching local and Indigenous communities in Nepal?

...floods, landslides and changing rainfall patterns. Despite the severity of these issues, Indigenous peoples have historically experienced challenges accessing climate finance in Nepal. Climate finance...

31 Jul 2026

Is climate finance reaching local and Indigenous communities in Nepal?

Rainforest in Papua province, Indonesia.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why 'green' can no longer sit apart from industry, trade in Indonesia

...flooding, disrupted supply chains and damaged livelihoods. These are not abstract environmental costs. They are failures of development planning. Romanticising Indonesia’s natural wealth risks delayin...

7 Apr 2026

Why 'green' can no longer sit apart from industry, trade in Indonesia

News / Cities

Disaster fatigue: Battered by storms and out of compassion

...floods. “ No one really asks the rescuers here - ‘Are you okay? What can we do to help you?’ The compassion fatigue is real, but we don’t have the programmes in place for psychological first aid. Jas...

24 Jan 2025

Disaster fatigue: Battered by storms and out of compassion

News / Policy & Finance

Q&A: Making a case for Vanuatu’s survival in the highest court

...flooding and wash away all the farmlands. My island, Tanna, is a volcanic island, and its soil is very fertile. But the food production is no longer what it used to be. What will you do after the ICJ...

17 Jul 2025

Q&A: Making a case for Vanuatu’s survival in the highest court

News / Carbon & Climate

ChatGPT tool launches to cut AI emissions with shorter responses

...floods and toxic spills. These systems can also assist in real-time emergency coordination, resource deployment, and public communications. However, the report warns that AI also poses risks around bi...

16 Jul 2025

ChatGPT tool launches to cut AI emissions with shorter responses

News / Carbon & Climate

Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s green startup landscape, report finds

...flooding and sea-level rise. Against that backdrop, the Padang & Co report found that the region’s green economy is no longer constrained by a lack of technology, but by system-level bottlenecks, ...

16 Dec 2025

Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s green startup landscape, report finds

News / Cities

Thailand capital turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

...floodwater,” says landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom. “Flooding was fun.” But when a tropical storm hit the city of Bangkok in 2011, her opinion of floods changed forever. Residents had to flee ...

12 Sep 2024

Thailand capital turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Rethinking Malaysia’s path to net zero

...floods and competing land-use pressures. Yet dismissing carbon credits entirely would be equally misguided. Malaysia’s transition will require significant capital not only to decarbonise power generat...

4 Mar 2026

Rethinking Malaysia’s path to net zero

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