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Over the past two decades, Chinese financing in Africa has boomed and waned, and undergone cycles of change. Initially dominated by lending from state-owned policy banks for large infrastructure and e...

10 Apr 2025

Forum calls for targeted, evidence-based solutions to speed up sustainable development progress

Sustained economic growth in Asia and the Pacific has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, the attainment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 remains well beyond the region&rs...

3 Mar 2025

The Ganga Water Treaty is crucial to India-Bangladesh relations because it guarantees a systematic process for water sharing between the two riparian states. The treaty, signed in 1996, expires next y...

21 Apr 2025

On 5 December 2024, the Adaro Energy Group, the world’s sixth-largest coal mining company, completed the spin-off of its thermal coal assets into PT Adaro Andalan (Andalan). The Adaro Energy Group (AD...

27 Feb 2025

The Middle East is now at a juncture where it has the opportunity to elevate the roles that female leaders are playing in order to deliver on its climate and sustainability commitments. Historically,...

6 Sep 2024

Banks, NPOs form just transition working group to develop practical steps for transition to a low carbon economy

Climate Finance Asia, a leading sustainable finance advisory firm, announced today the launch of the Just Transition Working Group to explore practical ways to integrate Just Transition best practices...

26 Sep 2024

...equities head at Dutch asset manager Robeco. On clean energy specifically, bilateral American funds for the region totalled just over US$41 million between 2018 and 2022, per Organisation for Economic...

11 Nov 2024

...Equities and Post Trade, ASIFMA, who was the moderator. Image: Jeremy Chan / Eco-Business Hong Kong's proximity to China is likely to remain an advantage in the long term, said speakers at the ASIFMA...

3 Mar 2025

COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber has been trying to calm the uproar this week over an old video that surfaced on Sunday, which has him on record saying that there is “no science” behind demands to phas...

7 Dec 2023

Properly funding nature’s recovery on a global scale will require a staggering amount of money. In 2021, The Nature Conservancy, an environmental non-profit, estimated that reversing the global declin...

11 Sep 2025

Facility-level just transition guidelines for banks draft report released

The Secretariat of the Facility-level Just Transition Working Group (F-JTWG), which is led by Climate Finance Asia, announces the release of a draft report of Facility-level Just Transition Guidelines...

21 Nov 2024

...equities, as an emerging market, there's a lot of education we must do. To create awareness among the investors that the disclosures exist, what they consist of, where to find them, what their meaning...

30 Jun 2024

COP29 decisions deliver gains for gender equality in climate action, but more remains to be done

The COP29 climate conference concluded on 24 November with several key global agreements on climate action, including a new collective goal for climate-related financing to reach US$300 billio...

14 Dec 2024

The next five years will determine the future of our planet. By 2030, we must halt biodiversity loss and limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F). Achieving these goals requires a ma...

12 Dec 2024

Political leadership roles in 2025: Men continue to dominate

New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveal limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks the ...

25 Mar 2025

Each June, international climate negotiators descend on Bonn in west Germany for a two-week conference at the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Bonn is a mid-year ...

11 Jul 2025

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29), held last week in Baku, was heralded as a pivotal moment for global climate finance. Instead, it left many deeply disappointed. For develo...

27 Dec 2024

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality – posing sp...

27 Apr 2025

UN conference calls for renewed, bold efforts to make gender equality commitments a reality in Asia and the Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review opened today, bringing together over 1,200 delegates from governments, civil society and youth groups, the private sector and...

20 Nov 2024

Aggressive industry lobbying and a decades-long campaign to shift the blame for pollution on to consumers have enabled the plastics sector to stall progress on the United Nations plastic pollution tre...

19 Jun 2024

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