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Climate vulnerable Southeast Asia muted on loss and damage in COP27 speeches

Southeast Asia is on the frontlines of climate risk, with typhoons set to be more intense and floods more frequent as the Earth warms. But at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, only t...

17 Nov 2022

Climate vulnerable Southeast Asia muted on loss and damage in COP27 speeches

News / Cities

As dengue cases break records, Bangladesh struggles to cope

Bangladesh is struggling to cope with a record-breaking outbreak of dengue, with the death toll climbing to 352 as of 9 August. Since January, 75,069 infections have been recorded in the country. The ...

8 Sep 2023

As dengue cases break records, Bangladesh struggles to cope

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia can be a green model for the world

...floods, and droughts. Now, as the developing world races forward in its own development, it faces the awful dilemma of knowing that if it follows the same path taken by the developed world, it could w...

13 Nov 2022

Indonesia can be a green model for the world

News / Energy

China falls back on coal to meet summer peak demand

...flooding across China starting on 29 July, high temperatures could return in August, possibly bringing further increases in power demand, according to Wang Yawei, head of the China Meteorological Admi...

22 Aug 2023

China falls back on coal to meet summer peak demand

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is pushing more countries closer to war: report

...flooding have precipitated socioeconomic meltdown in a country with the world's largest oil reserves. Verisk Maplecroft's Environmental Risk Outlook, published on Thursday, warned that countries that ...

27 Jul 2022

Climate change is pushing more countries closer to war: report

News / Carbon & Climate

Low Mekong waters make life hard around Cambodia’s smaller lakes

...floodplain civilisation – the Khmer are people who lived on the natural levees and based their agriculture on the flooding,” Goichot says. “If you destroy the floodplains, you’re killing the golden he...

19 May 2022

Low Mekong waters make life hard around Cambodia’s smaller lakes

News / Food & Agriculture

Nepal girds for rice shortage amid delayed monsoon rains, fertiliser crisis

...floods have increased. Many farmers say they still remember all too well the flash floods during last year’s monsoon, just as they were preparing for what they thought would be a good harvest. The mon...

11 Aug 2022

Nepal girds for rice shortage amid delayed monsoon rains, fertiliser crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

'How did a forest farm become a durian plantation?' Transparency of Malaysia's EIAs under scrutiny

Controversy surrounding a durian farm in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah, which has been linked to disastrous floods in the surrounding area, has sparked renewed calls for greater transparency i...

28 Jul 2022

'How did a forest farm become a durian plantation?' Transparency of Malaysia's EIAs under scrutiny

News / Energy

Malaysia's energy transition: Catalyst projects to accelerate nation’s shift to renewables

...floods and extreme weather events worldwide, especially in Asia. The region is warming faster than the global average, with the mean temperature in 2022 being the second or third warmest on record – a...

4 Dec 2023

Malaysia's energy transition: Catalyst projects to accelerate nation’s shift to renewables

News / Policy & Finance

COP27: ‘The African COP’

...floods in Pakistan and the multi-season drought in the Horn of Africa. Climate impacts are increasingly being shown to have destabilising ripple effects through society and the economy. Africa is the ...

4 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘The African COP’

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Eco-economic development amid COP15

...flooding, and absorb carbon emissions. They are estimated to have an economic wealth valued at $550 billion. First, we are already facing one of the largest food-security crises in modern history. Si...

13 Dec 2022

Eco-economic development amid COP15

News / Cities

Heavy toll of development frenzy on Karachi coast

...floodplains.” This shrinking of the floodplain means that water cannot flow through the channels and out to sea, instead entering the city and causing flash floods. At the time of publication, Karachi...

8 Aug 2022

Heavy toll of development frenzy on Karachi coast

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work

...flooding, erosion and storms in low-lying Bangladesh, thousands of families like hers are moving to the slums of Dhaka. For many of their children - who are battling climate change impacts alongside t...

10 May 2022

Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

There are no ‘natural disasters’

A tropical cyclone has formed in the Bay of Bengal over the weekend and is due to hit the Indian state of Odisha. If the past is any guide, Cyclone Sitrang may bring flooding, destroyed crops, colla...

26 Oct 2022

There are no ‘natural disasters’

News / Policy & Finance

Afghans are 'voiceless' in the face of climate impacts

...floods exacerbated by climate change. And yet, Afghanistan was left out of the United Nations’ annual conference of the parties (COP) dedicated to dealing with climate change – for the third year in a...

4 Jan 2024

Afghans are 'voiceless' in the face of climate impacts

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Time to get serious about climate adaptation. Here's how.

...floods in Pakistan and Nigeria that have killed hundreds and displaced millions. While we must prevent further temperature increases by continuing to mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions and regenera...

14 Nov 2022

Time to get serious about climate adaptation. Here's how.

News / Policy & Finance

‘Premature’ to posit loss and damage donors, recipients: Singapore environment ministry on youth group statement

...flood in Pakistan last year that is expected to set the country back US$46 billion. “We understand that Singapore is acting in its national interest, but surely there must be limits to such self-inter...

22 Mar 2023

‘Premature’ to posit loss and damage donors, recipients: Singapore environment ministry on youth group statement

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

What will an El Niño bring next to India?

...floods, and high salinity. By utilising these seeds, farmers can enhance their resilience to an increasingly variable climate. Investing in training and capacity-building programs for farmers is cruci...

18 Jul 2023

What will an El Niño bring next to India?

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme weather driving boom in climate risk solutions

...flood damage over the last decade, and is the least-insured region. Increasing pressure on businesses to disclosure climate risk is also driving demand in solutions such as business performance climat...

27 Jan 2023

Extreme weather driving boom in climate risk solutions

Press Releases / International Finance Corporation

IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh

...flooding caused by monsoon rains. This convergence of crises threatens to drive more people into extreme poverty, magnify hunger and malnutrition, and erase hard-won development gains in the country. ...

19 Dec 2022

IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh

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