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Malaysia’s growing investment in public transport could transform how people move, especially with the RM 17.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) allocated for transport development in 2026. The caveat – only i...

15 Dec 2025

As the climate crisis intensifies, so too does the global leadership vacuum. With the United States rolling back its climate and development funding and European donors following suit, the era of West...

15 May 2025

Kaveh Madani is many things. He has been deputy head of Iran’s environmental agency, an activist, a climate negotiator. But fundamentally he has always been a water scientist. Now, as director of t...

26 Jan 2026

For many years, in a bid to legitimise their claims for urgent action, youth climate activists have sought to put a spotlight on the idea of intergenerational justice – that the pursuit of welfare by ...

3 Oct 2024

Financing for development: Reforming global systems to drive progress

The global financial system is failing to meet the challenges of escalating debt, systemic inequalities and intensifying shocks of climate change. Developing economies are at a crit...

15 Mar 2025

The three-day conference brought together nearly 200 researchers and legal experts to discuss future temperature pathways where the Paris Agreement’s “aspirational” target to limit global warming to 1...

17 Oct 2025

...equities. Bengaluru’s data centres alone consume over 26 million litres each year, even as the city recently experienced what was described as its “worst water crisis” in nearly five centuries. Hydera...

21 Apr 2026

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank have launched a new financing initiative to accelerate the Asean Power Grid (APG) – a three-deca...

16 Oct 2025

GIC sustainability head Emily Chew speaking at SGFIN summit 2025

...equities saw a big boost in 2020, but they have underperformed oil and gas stocks and the broader market since early 2022. Image: Columbia University's Centre on Global Energy Policy However, Chew sa...

19 Mar 2025

When one thinks of metropolitan Hong Kong, farmers do not typically come to mind. Yet there are many farms in the New Territories surrounding Alan To’s Aromafunapy site which have seen their harvests ...

4 Aug 2025

Asean Power Grid: Accelerating the region’s energy transition

Southeast Asia is entering a decisive stage in its energy transition. As energy demand grows, governments are looking for ways to deliver affordable, reliable and clean electricity to homes, businesse...

22 Jan 2026

Last month, the southern Indian city of Bengaluru faced an early start to the monsoon and experienced its wettest May ever. Beneath the heavy rains and floods, water shortages may seem a far cry. Yet ...

16 Jun 2025

Global climate and health leaders convene in Vietnam to tackle equity, sustainability and climate resilience

More than 300 healthcare leaders, policymakers, and environmental advocates from across Asia and all over the globe will gather at the International Scientific Conference on Climate Change and Health ...

28 Oct 2024

Countries are increasingly referencing the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the climate action plans they produce every five years under the Paris Agreement. As of August 2025, about 54 per cent (105 o...

12 Feb 2026

Groundbreaking budget tagging tool to strengthen public spending on the welfare of children in the Philippines

In a landmark move to institutionalise child-responsive budgeting for local governments, the Government of the Philippines, through the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), the Dep...

25 Aug 2025

In Bangladesh, a country where a colonial-era law still criminalises same-sex relations, the grassroots group Noboprobhaat Foundation created a rare safe space for LGBTQ+ people living in the country...

2 Jan 2026

...equities due to colonialism?” asks Villagomez. “You’re never really going to undo all of it. But how can you soften the blow?” A good way to start, he says, is to move the control of science, conserva...

12 Mar 2026

Gender equality is the world’s unfinished business – and unfinished potential

Gender equality remains the unfinished business of our time – and the private sector is indispensable for closing the gap, according to a new report from UN Women lau...

6 Oct 2025

Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI: Global leaders commit to responsible AI for sustainable development

At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC), global leaders from the public sector, business, science, and civil society have jointly endorsed the Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the Sust...

13 Jun 2025

Ten years ago today, as Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney warned of the ‘tragedy of the horizon’: that by the time climate risks fully hit markets, it would be too late to act. Climate advo...

3 Oct 2025

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