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Down the drain: Philippines water joint ventures stir anger

...floods and droughts linked to climate change exacerbating the situation. Many more lack properly managed sanitation. In 2020, Kaye Viray and her family were ecstatic to move from a rented apartment in...

15 Aug 2023

Down the drain: Philippines water joint ventures stir anger

News / Policy & Finance

'Very little capital' going into climate adaptation in emerging Asia: study

...flooding. The report emerges three months after the COP27 climate talks reached an agreement to set up a fund to help climate vulnerable countries cope with increasingly severe climate disasters.

17 Jan 2023

'Very little capital' going into climate adaptation in emerging Asia: study

News / Cities

Floods and early snow risk killing off Kashmir's nomadic culture

...flooding, and unseasonal snowstorms killed half the family's livestock. "I have never seen such harsh conditions before," said the 52-year-old herder from the Gujjar nomadic community, noting that las...

25 Oct 2022

Floods and early snow risk killing off Kashmir's nomadic culture

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Loss and damage as a common climate cause

...floods, which will only worsen as sea levels rise. And yet it accounts for just 0.4 per cent of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions. Countless well-meaning academics and activists have underscored th...

30 Nov 2023

Loss and damage as a common climate cause

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Land mismanagement lands communities near Malaysia's Gunung Inas in deep water

...floodwaters. I think this has been the biggest flood in decades," villager Tahak Lahamat recounted. Though nearly one month has passed since the flood occurred, considerable confusion remains over wh...

26 Jul 2022

Land mismanagement lands communities near Malaysia's Gunung Inas in deep water

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How to salvage COP28

...floods, and wildfires that underscored the need for urgent action, the pre-summit talks on a loss and damage fund to help the world’s most impoverished countries mitigate the effects of climate change...

24 Nov 2023

How to salvage COP28

hydropower plant on Nam Theun river in Laos PDR

News / Energy

Untapped hydropower can help Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia safely meet energy demand: study

...flooding and maintain year-round water supply while balancing the risks of floods from dammed rivers, the study said. A separate study has indicated that silting is an increasingly common problem in a...

26 Jan 2023

Untapped hydropower can help Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia safely meet energy demand: study

News / Carbon & Climate

As big 2024 elections loom, what's at stake for climate action?

When US voters head to the polls in November to decide a likely showdown between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, they will join the ranks of about two billion people voting worldwide this year....

16 Jan 2024

As big 2024 elections loom, what's at stake for climate action?

A couple paddle through a flooded road in Bangkok, Thailand.

News / Carbon & Climate

Lack of data, funding or interest: Journalists in Asia on the struggles of reporting on climate change

...floods as “acts of God”. When there are floods, the news stories tend to centre around politicians playing the blame game or leaders “going to the ground” to help out in flood relief efforts. Even w...

14 Oct 2022

Lack of data, funding or interest: Journalists in Asia on the struggles of reporting on climate change

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World's slum populations set to surge as housing crisis bites

...floods are common - not only destroying homes and possessions, but also contaminating drinking water and even causing deaths through building collapses, electrocution and drowning. With high levels of...

9 Jun 2023

World's slum populations set to surge as housing crisis bites

News / Food & Agriculture

Floods after drought devastate Sindh’s agriculture

...flooded roads adds to existing obstacles, leaving women facing a greater likelihood than men of losing their jobs. “This monsoon is a similar challenge like Covid-19 and the 2010 floods that devastate...

29 Aug 2022

Floods after drought devastate Sindh’s agriculture

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysia’s ISSB consultation reveals urgent need for capacity in sustainability reporting

...flood zones. “These are figures that a government agency or department might have, but for companies to commission their own assessments, it could be quite expensive. Some of this national data needs ...

25 Mar 2024

Malaysia’s ISSB consultation reveals urgent need for capacity in sustainability reporting

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Credit ratings and climate chaos

...floods linked to a climate crisis they had no hand in creating, these countries deserve support, not punishment. Emily Wilkinson is a senior research fellow and Director of the Resilient and Sustainab...

15 Dec 2023

Credit ratings and climate chaos

News / Food & Agriculture

Sustainable food – not more of it – needed as global hunger soars

...floods in Pakistan to drought in the Horn of Africa - were key contributors to the surge. But conflicts - including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which slashed wheat exports from Ukraine and drove...

18 May 2023

Sustainable food – not more of it – needed as global hunger soars

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why I think the World Bank should not host the loss and damage fund

...floods. The World Bank’s dismal record on climate Despite its claim in its last annual general meeting that it is transforming into a climate-friendly bank, the impacts of the World Bank’s culture and...

16 Nov 2023

Why I think the World Bank should not host the loss and damage fund

A banner reading “Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis” is unfurled in a forested are cleared for the Ministry of Defence's Food Estate project in Gunung Mas, Central Kalimantan on 10 November 2022

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia's food security plan will escalate climate and biodiversity crises: Activists

...Flooding is now more severe in the areas marked in red. Image: Greenpeace illustration based on Planet Imagery dated July 2022. The report, which was assembled by green groups Greenpeace Indonesia, WA...

14 Nov 2022

Indonesia's food security plan will escalate climate and biodiversity crises: Activists

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Saving deers and warty pigs: A conservation organisation's brave last stand for the West Visayan 'big five' species

...floods that reached as high as six feet. Almost 30 vulnerable birds were lost, including four criticially endangered Southern Rufous Hornbills and six Visayan Tarictic Hornbills. The disaster proved ...

26 Apr 2023

Saving deers and warty pigs: A conservation organisation's brave last stand for the West Visayan 'big five' species

News / Cities

Build, collapse, rebuild: life on the river islands of Bangladesh

...floods. Now we have installed them on raised plinths. We hope we will not face any drinking water and sanitation crisis during floods in future,” said Afroza Begum of Nadaghari Char at Madarganj. Fl...

24 Jun 2022

Build, collapse, rebuild: life on the river islands of Bangladesh

News / Energy

Paris climate goals require immediate oil demand downturn: Study

...floods, droughts and storms; current warming stands at 1.1˚C. Woodmac said the most likely pathway will result in peak oil in 2032 and peak emissions in 2027, bringing temperatures 2.5˚C higher by the...

14 Sep 2023

Paris climate goals require immediate oil demand downturn: Study

News / Cities

Pakistan floods deal fresh blow to struggling small businesses

...flooding that have killed more than 1,000 people since June. In Rashid's home city of Karachi, the country's largest, weeks of rain left the streets knee-deep in water and sludge and meant he could on...

30 Aug 2022

Pakistan floods deal fresh blow to struggling small businesses

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