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Will Iran's climate inaction fuel rising disaster threats?

In just over a year, Iran has endured deadly flash floods, crop-ruining drought, punishing dust storms and heatwaves that have pushed temperatures as high as 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit...

27 Sep 2022

Will Iran's climate inaction fuel rising disaster threats?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What will it take to phase out fossil fuels?

...floods, and droughts. If we compelled fossil-fuel companies to shoulder the losses they long saw coming, and redirected public funds to renewable solutions, oil and gas assets would be exposed as the ...

8 Dec 2023

What will it take to phase out fossil fuels?

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Hunting and militancy threaten wetland birds in conflict-hit northwest Pakistan

...floods in 2010, which inundated one-fifth of Pakistan. As natural disasters have coincided with conflict, the administrative machinery has struggled to keep up. Mir Aslam says that cranes and other mi...

5 Jul 2023

Hunting and militancy threaten wetland birds in conflict-hit northwest Pakistan

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COP27 will be 'failure' without new climate fund, says Vanuatu

...flooding. So we're going to have to look into large-scale resettlement of people within the country. Ralph Regenvanu, minister for foreign affairs, Vanuatu A large share of "loss and damage" can be m...

17 Nov 2022

COP27 will be 'failure' without new climate fund, says Vanuatu

Motorbikes flow through flood water in Jakarta

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Southeast Asia’s sinking cities: can they be saved?

...flooding in Ho Chi Minh City, Manila and Bangkok are a harbinger of things to come. By 2050, some urban centres in the region may be permanently semi-flooded. Both Jakarta and Bangkok have been floo...

7 Jun 2022

Southeast Asia’s sinking cities: can they be saved?

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Could focus on climate ease water woes between India and Pakistan?

...floods make water rights and access an ever-bigger worry. The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty - mediated by the World Bank - splits the Indus River and its tributaries between the South Asian neighbours and ...

24 Feb 2023

Could focus on climate ease water woes between India and Pakistan?

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Loss and damage: how can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?

...flooding are a major threat to heritage sites – and a major threat to vulnerable communities within our coastal regions. Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo, director, Institute for Environment and Sanitation S...

18 Apr 2023

Loss and damage: how can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?

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Early pledges to 'loss and damage' fund build shaky trust at COP28

The launch of a long-awaited global fund to deal with growing loss and damage from wilder weather and rising seas, at Thursday's opening of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, gave the annual talks a "...

4 Dec 2023

Early pledges to 'loss and damage' fund build shaky trust at COP28

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Climate change worsening HIV control in Asia

Climate change-driven extreme weather events, sea level rise, changes in temperature, and air and water pollution are impacting control of HIV in the Asia Pacific region, a science gathering heard. Th...

6 Sep 2023

Climate change worsening HIV control in Asia

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The Salween explained: Asia’s last great undammed river

...flood villages, forcing people to resettle, contributing to migrant influx across the Salween into Thailand, as people flee landmines and potential violence in Myanmar. How are countries outside Myanm...

4 Apr 2024

The Salween explained: Asia’s last great undammed river

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Indigenous Indonesians face new risks in 'green' climate drive

...flood risk and provide a source of low-carbon hydroelectric power. But all those projects take land - and local citizens, including Indigenous people, fear they will be the losers, Sombolinggi said. A...

17 Apr 2023

Indigenous Indonesians face new risks in 'green' climate drive

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Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

...floods, tsunamis and other threats, the United Nations says. Mami Mizutori, head of the UN disaster risk reduction agency, said putting effective protection systems in place globally is "ambitious" bu...

15 Nov 2022

Plan to shield people from climate disasters unveiled at COP27

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Adapting China to extreme weather

...floods. The province saw record-breaking downpours in early summer. Surging water levels on the Bei River, a tributary of the Pearl, caused a once-in-a-century flood, threatening the manufacturing bas...

20 Oct 2022

Adapting China to extreme weather

News / Food & Agriculture

From India to Lagos, can 'superfood' millet make climate comeback?

...floods, which can slash harvests, spur new pests and accelerate food waste - become a major emerging threat to global food security. Efforts to rethink food trade, aid and speculation are needed along...

15 Aug 2023

From India to Lagos, can 'superfood' millet make climate comeback?

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Walking in the shadow of Madhya Pradesh’s devastating floods

...floods. Months later – a journey down the Sindh Months after the floods, when we started our walk along the Sindh River at Seondha in Madhya Pradesh, the effects of the flood were still very much evid...

6 Jun 2022

Walking in the shadow of Madhya Pradesh’s devastating floods

News / Carbon & Climate

In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate

...flood risk”. Trees and woodlands can improve air quality, protect soils and host a range of biodiversity. But trees can also be challenged by climate change. A 2019 study found that climate change co...

10 Jul 2023

In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate

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Can Bangladesh 'climate proof' garment jobs in a warming world?

...flooding risks. "A large-scale flood like the one recently witnessed in Pakistan could spell havoc for our industry," he warned at DBL's office building in Gulshan district, which maximises use of day...

13 Mar 2023

Can Bangladesh 'climate proof' garment jobs in a warming world?

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Covid – not climate change – has nudged Australians towards greener lifestyles: study

...flooding to climate change or argued that the floods were not exacerbated by climate-related events. By contrast, in Europe, extreme weather is consistently framed as climate change-related by the pre...

19 Aug 2022

Covid – not climate change – has nudged Australians towards greener lifestyles: study

Some data sources indicate that greenwashing could be declining after years of rising incidences of problematic sustainability claims.

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

Is greenwashing really in decline?

...floods and droughts]? Will they learn that we actually need to make sustainability real because it will mitigate those [climate] risks? Or will they go the opposite way? Will they say, "if that is hap...

17 Apr 2025

Is greenwashing really in decline?

News / Energy

Malaysia lags on renewable energy, threatening climate goals

...floods. “ Retiring modern or relatively new coal capacity is a very expensive business—because who is going to pay for it? The way that gets managed is not only through Malaysia but through internati...

7 Feb 2023

Malaysia lags on renewable energy, threatening climate goals

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