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How to transform Asia-Pacific’s electricity grids

...flooding, and other weather complications. In 2022, the Asia-Pacific region has been grappling with heatwaves including record-breaking temperatures in countries such as India and Pakistan in early mo...

20 Sep 2022

How to transform Asia-Pacific’s electricity grids

News / Policy & Finance

ISSB announces one-year temporary exemption for Scope 3 reporting as part of guidance, relief measures

...flood control,” he said.  He announced the appointment of two special advisors to provide strategic counsel on issues related to natural ecosystems and just transition to the ISSB. These are Karin Kem...

16 Dec 2022

ISSB announces one-year temporary exemption for Scope 3 reporting as part of guidance, relief measures

News / Transport

IMO settles for ‘by or around 2050’ net-zero target for shipping

...flooding, drought, extreme heat events, which if not addressed could cost the industry up to US$9.8 billion by 2050, based on research non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) published in 2022. Wi...

7 Jul 2023

IMO settles for ‘by or around 2050’ net-zero target for shipping

News / Lifestyle

Incomes dip for South Asia's women home workers as heat rises

Rising heat and heavier rains across South Asia, as the planet warms, are forcing home-based women workers to cut down on hours as their houses get hotter or are flooded often, resulting in a loss of ...

21 Jan 2022

Incomes dip for South Asia's women home workers as heat rises

IPCC Report_Andrés Alegría (Germany/Honduras), Stefanie Langsdorf (Germany)

News / Carbon & Climate

'Clobbered by climate change': IPCC report urges firm eleventh-hour action

...flooding. Vector-borne and water-borne diseases are increasing in Asia due to a rise in hazards such as heatwaves, flooding, droughts and air pollutants. Heavy rainfall and typhoon risks were identifi...

28 Feb 2022

'Clobbered by climate change': IPCC report urges firm eleventh-hour action

News / Policy & Finance

Young climate experts ready for top roles in negotiations at COP27

...flooding in his South Pacific island community. "We have been living through the era of climate change." Negotiating skills The push to train a new cadre of young climate diplomats grew in part ou...

7 Nov 2022

Young climate experts ready for top roles in negotiations at COP27

News / Water

India’s palm oil plans fail to account for climate change

...floods, says Samantha Kuzma, a research analyst responsible for Aqueduct, a data project from the World Resources Institute (WRI). “And those things could even happen in the same place.” The Indian su...

20 Apr 2023

India’s palm oil plans fail to account for climate change

Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh

News / Corporate Responsibility

Rising sea levels threaten Asia's apparel sector

...flooding and cyclones. Around 600 million people live in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding, with 11 of the 15 highest risk cities in Asia, according to Verisk Maplecroft, a United Kingdom-...

5 Nov 2021

Rising sea levels threaten Asia's apparel sector

News / Carbon & Climate

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

...floods arrived. He worries that the floods may not come at all this year. “It’s really impacting my family. I can still grow some crops without the flooding, but the amount will be less and the qualit...

25 Nov 2021

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

News / Policy & Finance

'Silent financier': How Bangladesh's poor are paying the costs of climate damage

...floods, storms and other climate change impacts. Momena Banu, of Chilmari, a flood-prone area of northern Bangladesh, in May saw her home swept away in early monsoon floods. With her husband having ea...

10 Dec 2021

'Silent financier': How Bangladesh's poor are paying the costs of climate damage

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Brazil's 'people of the river' pay price for Amazon hydropower

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and g...

13 Oct 2022

Brazil's 'people of the river' pay price for Amazon hydropower

News / Policy & Finance

More forest, more profit? Brazil looks to build a new 'bioeconomy'

...flood of investment pouring into expanding soy and cattle. As Brazil tries to protect its fast-vanishing rainforest, reduce inequality and build a more sustainable economy, finding ways to shift inves...

13 Apr 2023

More forest, more profit? Brazil looks to build a new 'bioeconomy'

News / Carbon & Climate

Here's how Asia Pacific's biggest cities might look in 2100

...flooding that killed hundreds. 2. Beijing, China The capital of China is notorious for air pollution as a result of its past three decades of industrial boom. In 2013, the high concentration of toxi...

19 Dec 2022

Here's how Asia Pacific's biggest cities might look in 2100

News / Cities

Sea-level rise ‘may cross two metres by 2100’

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommends raising to two metres, instead of the existing one metre, the imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the Asia Pacific region to improve the resilie...

13 Oct 2022

Sea-level rise ‘may cross two metres by 2100’

News / Carbon & Climate

Explained: How climate change worsens avalanches in the Himalayas

...floods (GLOFs). These occur when meltwater that has accumulated at the snout of a glacier breaches the dam holding it back, thanks to a trigger such as an earthquake or avalanche. Analysis of 30 GLOFs...

30 May 2023

Explained: How climate change worsens avalanches in the Himalayas

Opinion / Waste

UN Plastics Treaty: What can we learn from other international environmental agreements?

...floods, and loss of coastal areas. Other parts of the world are seeing the melting of glaciers, massive bleaching of coral reefs, more wildfires, longer periods of drought, sea level rise, etc. Scient...

23 Apr 2024

UN Plastics Treaty: What can we learn from other international environmental agreements?

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather

Weather and climate extremes, such as prolonged drought, heavy rainfall and heatwaves, can lead to harvest failures. These are occurring with increased magnitude and frequency on a warming planet. In ...

11 Jul 2023

Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather

News / Water

Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

...floodplains into highly productive double-cropping and, in places, triple-cropping lands to make the country the world’s fourth highest producer of rice. The researchers say the sustainable irrigation...

4 Oct 2022

Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

News / Policy & Finance

Modest tax rates on the global elite could close huge climate finance gap: UN-backed report

...flooding, despite contributing the lowest share global emissions and having the lowest capacity to finance climate mitigation and funding efforts, compared to the wealthier nations. “The main conclusi...

3 Feb 2023

Modest tax rates on the global elite could close huge climate finance gap: UN-backed report

News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

...floods, droughts and wildfires – have caused about US$3.8tn worth of lost crops and livestock production over the past three decades, according to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization....

7 Jun 2024

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

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