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Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’

The event was billed as a “call to action” to the “research community, policymakers and business to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of tipping points and to accelerate the required...

10 Jul 2025

Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’

News / Policy & Finance

More nations plan for 'health disasters' fuelled by climate change

...flooding and vector-borne diseases, and included actions in response such as raising community awareness, the alliance said. The report also highlighted a mismatch between the focus by some nations on...

18 May 2023

More nations plan for 'health disasters' fuelled by climate change

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Unlocking Indonesia's potential through a blue economy

...flooding due to land subsidence poses a significant threat to coastal urban areas, damaging infrastructure and affecting communities, households and individuals. Indonesia produces the second largest...

13 Jun 2023

Unlocking Indonesia's potential through a blue economy

'Moratorium on new coal plants now!' NGOs protest against coal in the Philippines

News / Energy

Support for fossil fuel subsidy cuts and coal phase-out gains momentum among Southeast Asians: survey

...floods, heatwaves and droughts this year and recognised climate change as the predominant cause, there is a marked decline in the perception of threat urgency. Almost half (49 per cent) of respondents...

21 Sep 2023

Support for fossil fuel subsidy cuts and coal phase-out gains momentum among Southeast Asians: survey

News / Cities

No room to cut: rising inflation traps Bangladesh climate migrants

...flooding this year were being planned, ranging from food assistance to cash help, but "the global situation is affecting the economy of Bangladesh". No work, less pay For a growing share of Bangladesh...

28 Sep 2022

No room to cut: rising inflation traps Bangladesh climate migrants

News / Cities

Asia’s coastal cities ‘sinking faster than sea level-rise’

...flooding. The phenomenon of land sinking faster than sea-level rise is more pronounced in Asian cities than elsewhere, says the study published in April in Geophysical Research Letters. The study cove...

27 Apr 2022

Asia’s coastal cities ‘sinking faster than sea level-rise’

News / Carbon & Climate

Warming world 'brutalises' women as heatwaves deepen gender divide

Women will bear the brunt of extreme heat as more frequent heatwaves on a warming planet pose a growing threat to their work, earnings and lives, researchers have warned. The impacts of rising heat a...

2 Aug 2023

Warming world 'brutalises' women as heatwaves deepen gender divide

UN special rapporteur Ian Fry in Baseco compound

News / Carbon & Climate

Abolish controversial Philippines anti-insurgency programme that targets environmental defenders: UN special rapporteur Ian Fry

...floods. These three countries all share high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Former UN special rapporteur Vicky Tauli Corpuz said that the Philippines by far has the worst human rights...

21 Nov 2023

Abolish controversial Philippines anti-insurgency programme that targets environmental defenders: UN special rapporteur Ian Fry

Press Releases / Imagine H2O Asia

Introducing Imagine H2O Asia Cohort 4: the region's leading water innovators

...flood management system in Jakarta this year. In response to these incentives and opportunities, the quality and diversity of innovators committed to solving the region’s water challenges is in...

9 Nov 2022

Introducing Imagine H2O Asia Cohort 4: the region's leading water innovators

News / Cities

Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

...Floods and landslides continue, as do accidental drownings, with 40 deaths reported in abandoned mining pits since 2011. The province also has the highest surface temperature rise in Indonesia, at 0.9...

19 Jan 2023

Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

News / Waste

Philippines aid worker fights plastic tide to protect island

...flooding, landslides and devastating typhoons. Her project, called Wala Usik ("nothing wasted") in the local language, challenged the toxic "sachet culture" that is choking the seas of the Philippines...

9 May 2023

Philippines aid worker fights plastic tide to protect island

News / Policy & Finance

Brazil's Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap cash at COP27

...flood protection. But as forest-rich countries grapple with energy and food price pressures linked to Russia's war on Ukraine, on top of fiscal pain from the Covid-19 pandemic, tapping into natural re...

7 Nov 2022

Brazil's Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap cash at COP27

News / Cities

Will India lightning strike deaths rise as climate change worsens?

The residents of Gurwaith village in Indian Kashmir never used to fear thunderstorms, but in recent weeks, people have raced home or remained indoors at the sight of dark clouds overhead. Lightning k...

28 Jun 2023

Will India lightning strike deaths rise as climate change worsens?

News / Waste

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

Governments are meeting in Paris this week to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution, as alarm grows over the environmental damage caused by surging amounts of waste. Producing plastics cause...

30 May 2023

Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

News / Energy

Thousands of people at risk of being displaced by hydropower in central Nepal

...Floods and landslides every monsoon result in loss of life and damage to property: in 2014, a landslide killed 156 people. DB Budhathoki, a local activist from Lukusingh, says that the “already fragil...

16 Mar 2023

Thousands of people at risk of being displaced by hydropower in central Nepal

News / Carbon & Climate

Can reforestation efforts reverse the damage done in the Philippines?

...floods, food and water insecurity, and an insecure water supply, and has led to the displacement of indigenous tribes. In 2019, the Philippines’ Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ...

11 Aug 2023

Can reforestation efforts reverse the damage done in the Philippines?

News / Policy & Finance

Six months after Melamchi floods in Nepal, no respite for displaced people

...floods strike. Scant help from authorities after Melamchi floods In Kiul, the headquarters of Helambu rural municipality a few kilometres north of Ganise, Dil Bahadur Nepali hurries towards the river...

9 Dec 2021

Six months after Melamchi floods in Nepal, no respite for displaced people

News / Food & Agriculture

Indian farmers turn to solar-powered fridges to fight food waste

...floods to droughts - and rising temperatures due to climate change, with farmers increasingly worried about their crops and wastage. Given that many farms are not connected to the grid and rely on die...

2 Dec 2022

Indian farmers turn to solar-powered fridges to fight food waste

News / Policy & Finance

COP28 outlook soured by climate finance blame game at UN talks

As Cyclone Biparjoy approached southern Pakistan this week, top Pakistani negotiator Nabeel Munir told governments at mid-year UN climate talks in Bonn it felt like he was "conducting a primary schoo...

19 Jun 2023

COP28 outlook soured by climate finance blame game at UN talks

News / Food & Agriculture

India's rice export ban revives the conversation about the crop's vast ecological footprint

International rice buyers went into a frenzy after India announced a sudden ban on the export of non-basmati white rice late July, after a period of heavy rains devastated rice paddies. The sudden ban...

7 Aug 2023

India's rice export ban revives the conversation about the crop's vast ecological footprint

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