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How debt-for-nature swaps can help create a more resilient South Asia

...floods, the cost of which is estimated at over USD 30 billion. While donors had pledged over USD 8 billion in aid, much of this has yet to be received. The Maldives, Nepal and Bangladesh are all strug...

22 May 2023

How debt-for-nature swaps can help create a more resilient South Asia

News / Waste

First Bangladesh city climate plan targets industrial-hub pollution

...flooding. But in recent decades, there has been sustained encroachment on the river and canals, hampering run-off of stormwater and causing water-logging in some areas, said activist Rabbi. The city c...

3 Jun 2022

First Bangladesh city climate plan targets industrial-hub pollution

News / Waste

Cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’ banks on mobilised Java communities

...floods lay waste to property in this area of Bandung for decades. “Flooding is a constant problem in the area where we live,” he said. “We have to adapt.” The community group Riki belongs to draws on ...

6 Sep 2022

Cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’ banks on mobilised Java communities

News / Carbon & Climate

We're on track to exceed the 1.5˚C climate goal: What happens then?

...floods in different regions of the world. Last year, the UN World Meteorological OrganUNtion said there was a 50-50 chance that temperatures would reach 1.5C for at least one individual year between 2...

27 Mar 2023

We're on track to exceed the 1.5˚C climate goal: What happens then?

News / Waste

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

...flooding and choking air pollution. As Indonesia's capital grows, waste collection and recycling services have struggled to keep pace. Single-use plastics - such as drinking straws, confectionery pac...

21 Aug 2023

Trash to treasure: Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks

News / Water

Water budgeting is taking Indian farmers from scarcity to plenty

...flood irrigation, the conventional but inefficient method that involves flooding the field with water. “Drip and sprinkler systems have not only reduced water use but also cut input costs and increase...

4 Jan 2023

Water budgeting is taking Indian farmers from scarcity to plenty

News / Carbon & Climate

WMO lead: ‘If climate crisis is dealt with in a patriarchal way, needs won’t be met’

A smile on her face, Celeste Saulo lapped up a rapturous ovation from the audience, packed in with barely space left to stand. Waving back to the crowd, she received even more applause. Saulo already ...

25 Jul 2023

WMO lead: ‘If climate crisis is dealt with in a patriarchal way, needs won’t be met’

News / Cities

'Useless for us': new Indonesian capital excludes indigenous, poor

...floods and deadly air pollution. But low-income residents in Jakarta fear losing their livelihoods, while indigenous people in Borneo say they have not been consulted, and that they will be uprooted f...

28 Feb 2022

'Useless for us': new Indonesian capital excludes indigenous, poor

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: APAC at 1.5°C of global warming

From Islamabad to Port Moresby, from Beijing to Canberra – big changes are coming, and we’re not prepared. Floods, fires and heavy winds are some of the dangers heading our way. Even if the global com...

24 May 2022

Explainer: APAC at 1.5°C of global warming

Solar panels at a village on Sumba island, Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change will transform how we live, but there are reasons for optimism

...flooding worsens. At some point, as the scale of flooding increases, such adaptation hits its limits. The levees necessary to hold back the water may become too expensive or so intrusive that they und...

19 Apr 2022

Climate change will transform how we live, but there are reasons for optimism

News / Water

India’s parliamentarians make a start in understanding rivers

...floodplain zoning is evident. Caught most clearly by a comment by a member of the Jal Shakti ministry to the Parliamentary Standing Committee: “Floodplain zoning is a concept central to floodplain man...

20 Oct 2021

India’s parliamentarians make a start in understanding rivers

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The IMF's turn to lead on climate

...flooding last year caused damages and economic losses totalling more than US$30 billion, with reconstruction estimated to cost an additional US$16 billion. In the Caribbean, tropical cyclones regularl...

1 Jun 2023

The IMF's turn to lead on climate

News / Food & Agriculture

Chinese techniques offer corn farmers in Benin a way to adapt to climate change

...floods in the commune,” he said. Maize farming is widespread in Benin. According to the 2019 agricultural census, nearly 80 per cent of farmers produce corn. In areas such as Ouémé and Plateau, it is ...

29 Sep 2022

Chinese techniques offer corn farmers in Benin a way to adapt to climate change

News / Energy

China’s new capacity payment risks locking in coal

Transitioning to a low-carbon energy system begins with the power sector. Globally, wind and solar are expected to play an ever-larger role. In China, a system with a high share of variable renewable ...

7 Dec 2023

China’s new capacity payment risks locking in coal

Opinion / Waste

The plastics and fish dilemma: to eat or not to eat

...flooding. It also breaks down into microform (less than 5 mm). It is these microplastics that put aquatic life — and the humans who rely on it — at risk. Fish are opportunistic feeders and tend to eat...

6 Feb 2023

The plastics and fish dilemma: to eat or not to eat

News / Carbon & Climate

‘50:50’ chance global warming reaches 1.5°C by 2026

...floods, droughts, poverty and hunger will be substantially higher if global warming exceeds 1.5°C. “The 1.5°C figure is not some random statistic. It is rather an indicator of the point at which clima...

13 May 2022

‘50:50’ chance global warming reaches 1.5°C by 2026

News / Carbon & Climate

Monsoon ‘pulls’ climate-changing chemicals into atmosphere

...floods and droughts. Researchers, using aircraft based at the US air base in South Korea, will fly through areas with the worst air quality — which happen to be where the Asian monsoon occurs. Scienti...

15 Aug 2022

Monsoon ‘pulls’ climate-changing chemicals into atmosphere

An image used in a simulation of extreme flooding in Hong Kong

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme weather warnings fail to trigger climate action: study

...flooding. Image: PUB So did people leading more environmentally-conscious lives who are already aware of the risks of climate change. Those who identified as neither climate sceptics or tree-huggers ...

3 Feb 2023

Extreme weather warnings fail to trigger climate action: study

Flooding in Mentakab Town central Pahang, Malaysia, in December 2021.

News / Policy & Finance

'Woefully inadequate' adaptation finance seen stifling developing Asia's climate response

...flooding that has left around 1,300 people dead in the South Asian country. Rich nations promised to give developing countries US$100 billion a year to adapt to climate impacts by 2020 at the United N...

2 Sep 2022

'Woefully inadequate' adaptation finance seen stifling developing Asia's climate response

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As world's poor face 'compounding crises', what could curb risks?

In nations from Somalia to Pakistan, the world's poorest and most fragile communities are facing the harshest impacts of climate change - a reality that is driving worsening poverty, potential for co...

22 May 2023

As world's poor face 'compounding crises', what could curb risks?

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