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Singapore seeking 'most cost-effective way' to make climate impact: environment minister

...flood insurance programme for Laos, and intends to offer similar services to other Southeast Asia countries. Singapore’s central bank last month pledged seed capital into a US$3.7 million ‘Asia Climat...

17 Nov 2022

Singapore seeking 'most cost-effective way' to make climate impact: environment minister

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

Farmer Ganpatram Bheda, 66, fears he will lose his two acres of land in northwest India after scarce rainfall and extreme cold in recent years hit crop yields, trapping him in a web of loans with lit...

15 May 2023

Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide

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Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

...flood-prone Jakarta on Java Island to the densely forested East Kalimantan province on Borneo. A design illustration of the new capital city in Indonesia. Image: Urban + Sitting deep within the jun...

4 Apr 2022

Could Nusantara be Indonesia’s new green capital?

News / Policy & Finance

‘It worries me deeply’: Five Chinese experts on climate change

Last year the world was warmer than in any since records began. China experienced a spate of heatwaves, droughts, rainstorms and typhoons. This extreme weather was down to a mixture of human-caused cl...

11 Mar 2024

‘It worries me deeply’: Five Chinese experts on climate change

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Former Verra veteran envisions an unshackled carbon market and a new endgame

...floods. They’ve diversified their revenue. But in order to get there, you need something to help get through that initial stage, and that’s where carbon finance is going to be really powerful. So a po...

23 Jul 2024

Former Verra veteran envisions an unshackled carbon market and a new endgame

climate change equals more climate refugees

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What about the climate displaced?

...flooding across Europe and Asia, and drought in Africa are forcing people to move. Last year, the Red Cross confirmed that it was already dealing with the consequences of climate change in all 192 cou...

17 Mar 2022

What about the climate displaced?

News / Water

Earth’s water cycle being bent past breaking point, warns conservationists

...floods (58,700), and extreme temperature (55,736 deaths). In economic terms, the top 10 events included storms (costing $521 billion) and floods ($115 billion). Porkka points out, however, that freshw...

22 Jun 2022

Earth’s water cycle being bent past breaking point, warns conservationists

News / Food & Agriculture

Marginalised farmers struggle to adapt to climate change in Uttarakhand

...flood and destruction of property in many places in 2021. Due to no proper drainage system in place, water from the highway, located just a ten minute walk upfill from their farm (registered under her...

27 Jun 2023

Marginalised farmers struggle to adapt to climate change in Uttarakhand

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

...floods covering a third of Pakistan a "window into the future". "What is happening in Pakistan demonstrates the sheer inadequacy of the global response to the climate crisis, and the betrayal and inju...

19 Sep 2022

As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the unthinkable

News / Carbon & Climate

Droughts and late monsoon floods batter South Asia

...floods, drought continues to affect large swathes of Pakistan and some areas of India. In a cruel irony, parts of India that were hit by drought until the end of August are now expected to be flooded ...

17 Sep 2021

Droughts and late monsoon floods batter South Asia

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Three months late, Asian developing states settle on loss and damage council reps

...floods last summer that killed thousands. He noted that Pakistan last year had also chaired the G77+China bloc of developing countries, which was one of the key players in negotiating the loss and dam...

17 Mar 2023

Three months late, Asian developing states settle on loss and damage council reps

News / Waste

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

...floods and fires. "Even the tiniest textile scraps are turned into usable and sellable products, in collaboration with the artisan communities we work with around the Philippines," said Hannah Neumann...

30 May 2023

Explainer: Why fast fashion brands destroy unsold clothes

Podcasts / Green Buildings

'Sustainability must be accessible': Arthaland's CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm

...flooding, heatwaves, and extreme temperatures this year in particular. At the same time, the price of electricity in the Philippines – among the highest in Asia – may rise along with increasing energy...

20 Nov 2023

'Sustainability must be accessible': Arthaland's CSO on making sustainable real estate in the Philippines a norm

News / Carbon & Climate

Are the Arctic's warm, cold spells causing India’s fluctuating monsoons?

...floods and droughts. “So, it is important that we document and understand past Arctic changes and investigate their pre-instrumental record global connections and ramifications to be better informed f...

5 Apr 2023

Are the Arctic's warm, cold spells causing India’s fluctuating monsoons?

News / Energy

Untold impact on northern Thailand’s wildlife from Mekong dams

...floods The Mekong floods during the wet season between June and October, filling the Ing and other tributaries. This soaks the wetland forests of Thailand’s north. The natural flooding of the Mekong p...

4 Oct 2021

Untold impact on northern Thailand’s wildlife from Mekong dams

News / Carbon & Climate

Flood risk will rise as climate heat intensifies

...Floods have claimed 58,700 lives in the last five decades. Between them, floods and storms − the two are often linked − cost Europe at least US$377bn in economic losses. Higher flooding frequency And ...

6 Aug 2021

Flood risk will rise as climate heat intensifies

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate adaptation must be transformational, not just fighting fires

There was significant progress on finance for climate adaptation at COP27 last month. Governments agreed to move forward on the Global Goal on Adaptation established in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which...

15 Dec 2022

Climate adaptation must be transformational, not just fighting fires

News / Energy

What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?

...flood warnings during the monsoon season. The government also argues that hydropower is linked to development in the area. Ginko Lingi, the chief engineer of transmission and planning at Arunachal P...

28 Apr 2023

What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?

News / Cities

Fishing cat in troubled waters: researchers’ proposals to save Asia’s wetland wild cat

...floodplains or deltas – are falling under the axes of development, agricultural expansion and urbanisation. Between 1970 and 2015, Asia lost 32 per cent of its natural wetlands. Climate change also po...

27 Oct 2022

Fishing cat in troubled waters: researchers’ proposals to save Asia’s wetland wild cat

News / Water

Polluted Indonesian rivers replenished with restock of endemic fish

...flood polluting a river on the Indonesian island of Java earlier this year depleted its fish stock, raising calls for restoration and restocking efforts in the body of water that empties out into the ...

14 Jul 2022

Polluted Indonesian rivers replenished with restock of endemic fish

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