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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How to tell moving climate stories

...flood, having to evacuate in the face of extreme weather events, waiting out a hurricane alert in a motel – climate change is an increasing source of concern in the everyday lives of those children. S...

15 May 2023

How to tell moving climate stories

News / Carbon & Climate

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2022

...flooded a public consultation on the then-proposed goals with calls for more ambitious decarbonisation efforts and stricter national targets to slash oil and gas outputs. Singapore has since pledged t...

14 Dec 2022

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2022

News / Cities

Indonesia backs hydro to power new capital city

...flooding, and faces increasing threats from sea level rise and subsidence. President Jokowi has said the new capital will also begin to address the economic gap between Java and the other islands in I...

10 Apr 2023

Indonesia backs hydro to power new capital city

News / Cities

Bangladeshi coastal communities gird for cyclones by planting mangroves

...floods due to tidal surges. Bangladesh is a large delta crisscrossed by more than 300 rivers. It’s one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters like floods, tropical storms and cyclones, ...

9 Jun 2022

Bangladeshi coastal communities gird for cyclones by planting mangroves

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The fossil fuel industry’s obstructionist climate change tactics

...floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-business interests peddling false remedies and promoting deceptive narra...

25 Aug 2023

The fossil fuel industry’s obstructionist climate change tactics

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Fully replenishing the green climate fund

...flood of investment pouring into the fossil-fuel industry to expand operations globally. Just Energy Transition Partnerships, launched at COP26, made headlines with the promise to funnel money from w...

20 Sep 2023

Fully replenishing the green climate fund

News / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory,’ says new report

...flooding events, it says. Amazon dieback would be a “catastrophe for biodiversity”, the report finds. Reduced river flow would lead to transport difficulties in the region, and some six million people...

4 Jan 2024

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory,’ says new report

News / Cities

How can 'sponge cities' use nature to tackle climate-fuelled floods?

...floods as climate change brings heavier rainfall and growing flood risk. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report said 700 million people already live in areas where rainfall e...

29 Mar 2022

How can 'sponge cities' use nature to tackle climate-fuelled floods?

News / Policy & Finance

Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA

...flooded with the US’s policy, positioning and media. It became the world’s sole superpower. That has now changed. Whenever you're in a position with multiple superpowers, you end up with trade wars an...

17 Jan 2025

Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA

News / Policy & Finance

How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia

In Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, spanning 490,000 hectares, expansive tracts of protected forest are being illegally converted to cassava, cashew and rubber plantations. Husband and wife Pi...

22 Apr 2024

How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia

News / Policy & Finance

COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn' for climate justice

...flood-battered Pakistan, presented a united front to push through the controversial fund. Yeb Saño, head of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said the fund's approval "marks a new dawn for climate justice". ...

22 Nov 2022

COP27 loss and damage fund heralds 'new dawn' for climate justice

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Small-scale farmers feed the world, but we are at a breaking point

...floods, drought and heat which have damaged harvests across the globe. Food and agriculture have never been higher on the climate agenda and, as I left my farm in the uplands of the Philippines, I had...

22 Nov 2022

Small-scale farmers feed the world, but we are at a breaking point

News / Cities

Philippine town rescues mangrove forest decimated by logging, blast fishing

...floods during typhoons since the forest was replanted. He also credited mangrove restoration with improving protection from extreme weather. The municipality’s natural defences would be further streng...

5 May 2023

Philippine town rescues mangrove forest decimated by logging, blast fishing

News / Energy

Is China ready to put solar panels out at sea?

...flood-relief areas without proper permitting procedures or when the industry rules were unclear,” he notes. “They had to be demolished later.” Zhou agrees that the authority is taking a “cautious” app...

18 Apr 2024

Is China ready to put solar panels out at sea?

Press Releases / Asian Development Bank

ADB loan to support Philippine agriculture sector reforms

...Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project, Mindanao Irrigation Development Project, and Mindanao Agro-Enterprise Development Project. Policy-based loans, as against project investment loans, are provid...

8 Feb 2023

ADB loan to support Philippine agriculture sector reforms

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: What is the Global Shield Initiative?

...floods were and remain Asia's most common and damaging natural disasters. Between 1970 - 2019, storms and floods accounted for 81 per cent of natural disasters and caused 91 per cent and 96 per cent o...

18 Nov 2022

Explainer: What is the Global Shield Initiative?

News / Energy

Melting glaciers could burst hydropower dams in Asian highlands

...floods topped 10 dams and killed over 6,000 people in the same region. Scientists are now warning that such disasters could happen more frequently in the high mountain ranges of Asia. Hundreds of new ...

1 Jul 2022

Melting glaciers could burst hydropower dams in Asian highlands

News / Lifestyle

China’s would-be parents and their climate concerns

...flooding in southern and north-eastern China. In summer 2021, the country had witnessed heavy rainstorms in Henan, while in 2022 a continuous heatwave swept over most of China, alongside extensive, hi...

16 Feb 2023

China’s would-be parents and their climate concerns

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate adaptation is a business opportunity — but at what cost?

...floods and earthquakes. Image: FM Global. [Click to enlarge] In practical terms, this could mean deploying flood defences to protect key business installations such as computer systems and warehouses...

13 May 2022

Climate adaptation is a business opportunity — but at what cost?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What the COP15 biodiversity conference must do

...flooded for 18 months. The climate pattern known as La Niña, aggravated by global warming, meant near-biblical rainfall. Lacking the tools or knowhow to handle the situation, we saw that we needed to ...

8 Dec 2022

What the COP15 biodiversity conference must do

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