Eco-Business

...flood strikes, in addition to longer-term aid for reconstruction, rehabilitation and coping with “slow onset” disasters, like rising sea levels. Existing climate funds often require long and complex p...

18 Nov 2024

In his second term, the administration of President Donald Trump has waged a systematic attack not only against climate change and research, but the very language and data that undergird modern scien...

15 Aug 2025

...floods and riverbank erosion.” He added, “When climate-exacerbated disasters like floods, riverbank erosion, cyclones, and storms destroy both public and private assets, the fallout goes much deeper t...

20 May 2024

...floodwater. “I didn’t notice him, and the floodwaters carried him away.” She adds, “Fear of losing children is a constant here,” noting that children also succumb to post-flood disease outbreaks arisi...

23 Feb 2024

...floods in 2022, which were attributed to climate change impacts. As of March, only about 10 per cent of these pledges had reportedly been honoured. Finance will dominate COP29 Finance is expected to t...

15 Nov 2024

...flooded villages or restore failed harvests,” argued Sudan’s Lina Yassin, an adaptation negotiator representing the bloc of Least Developed Countries. Without a tripling of adaptation finance by 2030,...

19 Nov 2025

'Engines of opportunity, centres of vulnerability': The growing challenges of Asia Pacific's cities

...floods threaten coastal megacities. A significant share of the urban population remains locked in poverty, with many living in slums or informal settlements. “This is the paradox we face,&rdquo...

27 Apr 2025

A family living in the northern part of Jakarta, the world’s fastest sinking metropolis, gets on with life as their home is flooded.

Over the last decade, Muara Gembong district on the northeastern tip of Jakarta Bay has slowly receded into the sea. Villages in the area are routinely affected by tidal flooding. Some are now permane...

29 Apr 2024

...floods, and droughts. Climate impacts could slash the Philippines' gross domestic product by up to 13.6 per cent by 2040 if interventions stall. For the country, this moment signals both "opportunity...

3 Sep 2025

With climate finance and foreign aid shrinking and debt continuing to rise, small island states are being forced to rethink how they survive, not just how they grow. Yet the climate threats keep comi...

9 May 2025

...floods. In addition, by increasing funding, it would allow developing countries to pursue more ambitious actions in their updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs), their climate plans as par...

18 Nov 2024

...floods in May 2024. As an after-effect of the flood, “Loktak has been filled with silt, sewage, plastic, debris and all sort of pollutants. Hence, fishing has been at a standstill due to the pollution...

12 Jul 2024

...floods, forest fires, typhoons and hurricanes. Sad to say, my own country is not playing a constructive role right now. For political reasons, or maybe it’s confusion, the US has stepped away from thi...

13 Jan 2026

To counter climate change, Colombian cities weave nature back into their urban fabric

...floods and other disasters more frequent and more severe. This is why 124 mayors and governors from around the world are headed to Cali, Colombia for the upcoming United Nations Biodiversity Con...

18 Oct 2024

...floods, droughts, typhoons and other extreme weather events. The report notes that floods “occurred frequently in some parts of China” last year. This was not explicitly linked to climate change. How...

14 Mar 2025

...flooding, clogged drainage systems and contaminated waterways. The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority estimates that 12-13 feet of plastic waste now sits at the bottom of the Buriganga River,...

4 Mar 2025

...floods The current crisis is linked to the massive floods that hit Pakistan in July-September 2022 and inundated a third of the country’s districts. A host of climatic factors – including a warming oc...

3 Jun 2024

...flooding to droughts and rising seas, are often among the poorest, the least polluting and underrepresented at global talks, according to UN climate body, the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl...

18 Jul 2025

What can we see about climate change in macroeconomic data?

Year by year researchers improve and deepen our understanding of economic activity. The primary example, and probably the most commonly used, is the detailed data and analysis available on gross...

20 Jun 2025