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The siren song of climate authoritarianism

...floods, and raging wildfires, which in Canada alone destroyed the equivalent of all the trees in Germany – might have felt like a final warning: without urgent and drastic action, the current climate ...

19 Sep 2023

The siren song of climate authoritarianism

News / Carbon & Climate

African leaders aim to put climate finance top of COP27 agenda

...flood waters, the eyes of people everywhere will be on the decision makers at COP27. If we want our continent to thrive, we have to adapt to climate change. Nana Akufo-Addo, president, Ghana Despite ...

12 Sep 2022

African leaders aim to put climate finance top of COP27 agenda

News / Food & Agriculture

India's women farm workers suffer job losses from climate shocks

Disabled mother-of-two Devanabai Dhaigude has in recent months regularly gone to bed on an empty stomach, after heavy rains flooded the cotton farm where she worked in western India. She and several ...

19 Oct 2022

India's women farm workers suffer job losses from climate shocks

News / Cities

Bangladesh develops green economic zones, but will locals benefit?

...flooding. When it was set up, the 500-acre "Bangladesh Special Economic Zone" - owned by the governments of Japan and Bangladesh and Japanese trading giant Sumitomo Corporation - acquired four-fifths ...

30 Jan 2023

Bangladesh develops green economic zones, but will locals benefit?

News / Carbon & Climate

How tech companies can fund and scale climate projects in APAC

...floods, devastating forest fires and brutal heat waves continue wreaking havoc across the planet this year – the need to help vulnerable communities worldwide to quickly adapt is now greater than ever...

9 Nov 2023

How tech companies can fund and scale climate projects in APAC

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

...flood risks in six river basins. In line with the agenda for COP 28, Southeast Asia needs to mobilise sizable resources to tackle mitigation and adaptation needs. Even though climate change is a part ...

13 Oct 2023

Southeast Asia’s need to bridge the climate financing gap

News / Policy & Finance

Jubilation for COP28 loss and damage deal but World Bank's role as interim funder still a concern

...floods and droughts. At the same time, it is not immediately clear who is eligible to draw from the fund. The agreement specified that the money is for developing countries that are “particularly vuln...

4 Dec 2023

Jubilation for COP28 loss and damage deal but World Bank's role as interim funder still a concern

News / Carbon & Climate

COP28 climate dispute: what are 'unabated' fossil fuels?

...floods and wildfires, Bataille said time is running out to set standards, especially for new coal-fired power plants and other industrial facilities. "Progress is very slow and faltering," he told Con...

8 Nov 2023

COP28 climate dispute: what are 'unabated' fossil fuels?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis

...flooding in Derna, Libya caused an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis” and extreme weather events continue to rage around the world. The climate crisis is already affecting millions: bringing death, i...

12 Oct 2023

COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis

News / Policy & Finance

Conservationists push 'nature positive' as biodiversity's net zero

A coalition of conservation and business groups is calling for governments and companies to adopt a global 'nature positive' goal of having more of the natural world left in 2030, but critics say the...

12 Oct 2023

Conservationists push 'nature positive' as biodiversity's net zero

News / Carbon & Climate

Floods in Asia are costing US$30 billion a year

...flooding in December and January cost RM6.1 billion (US$1.46 billion) and killed seven people. Asia has suffered the highest flood-related economic losses in recent times, with annual flood damage in ...

1 Apr 2022

Floods in Asia are costing US$30 billion a year

News / Transport

Can Pakistan's electric buses reduce urban air pollution woes?

...floods in 2022. But air pollution remains one of the country's main environmental concerns, with at least 40 per cent of dirty air in Pakistan produced by vehicles, the country's climate change minist...

13 Mar 2023

Can Pakistan's electric buses reduce urban air pollution woes?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Covid-19’s lessons for climate action

...floods and destroyed livelihoods. In Malawi, two destructive storms compounded a protracted cholera outbreak that claimed more than 1,600 lives. The list goes on. But the effects are not distributed e...

11 Sep 2023

Covid-19’s lessons for climate action

News / Cities

As El Niño brings wildfires, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up

When battling to protect Indonesia’s peatlands during wildfire crises in 2015 and 2019, most volunteer firefighters confronted the infernos with a dire shortage of equipment and technological resource...

13 Jul 2023

As El Niño brings wildfires, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up

News / Cities

Twitter sleuths and disaster mappers look for a backup plan

...floods. The initiative by Indonesia's Yayasan Peta Bencana - or Disaster Map Foundation - highlights Twitter's role in disaster response around the world, from helping Indians access Covid-19 vaccines...

28 Nov 2022

Twitter sleuths and disaster mappers look for a backup plan

News / Policy & Finance

Jokowi zeroes in on looming El Niño as Indonesia’s dry season heats up

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has warned of potentially dangerous weather conditions accelerating across the archipelago in the coming months, as the nation’s meteorology agency says more than half...

12 Jul 2023

Jokowi zeroes in on looming El Niño as Indonesia’s dry season heats up

News / Carbon & Climate

Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters

...floods, drought, salinity and heat. The researchers found that 43 per cent of households were exposed to floods, 41 per cent to storms and 83 per cent were affected by longer-term stresses like drough...

19 May 2022

Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters

Fisherman work the Bhavani river in Tamil Nadhu.

Opinion / Water

Drought in India: Can businesses play a role in collective action for water security?

...floods, there is a very real threat of aquifers dipping and rivers running dry in India as El Niño tampers with the all-important southwest monsoon. This news comes close on the heels of the Indian Me...

24 Nov 2023

Drought in India: Can businesses play a role in collective action for water security?

News / Energy

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

...floods and landslides, has more than 10 operational hydropower projects, with another 75 being built - among them NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad plant - officials at the state's renewable energy department ...

17 Jan 2023

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India's hydropower rush

News / Carbon & Climate

Asian firms risk getting ambushed by intensifying climate disasters

...flooding in the coming decades. There’s talk that heavy flooding in Malaysia may happen every decade at the end of the century. “Flooding is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when,” said Yong Seek...

11 Apr 2022

Asian firms risk getting ambushed by intensifying climate disasters

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