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Asian manufacturers are starting to green their operations but also need to make factories and employees resilient to heat and floods.

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Eufrocinio Bernabe Jr, assistant secretary at the Department of Finance, making a pitch for the Maharlika Investment Fund at 'Unlocking capital for sustainability' Philippines, says it is an additional source of capital for renewables.

Droughts and floods test the capacity of early warning systems and other ‘climate services’ to aid farmers – who in the meantime think up creative ways to stay afloat.

A 200-hectare residential property built into a mountainside in Cebu City is being touted as sustainable, but urban planners say the concept may cause landslides and flooding.

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Southeast Asia must prioritise climate resilience, encompassing adaptation and mitigation. The process must be strategically managed, informed by data and applied across a broad range of solutions. By Vinod Thomas

African leaders were underrepresented in the vaccine sharing programme during the pandemic, to the region’s detriment. Today, few African climate experts are taking part in global policy work. By Ifeanyi Nsofor

Human life has changed so fast in our modern age that our biology, ecology and psychology has not kept up. We need to treat social and environmental health on par with physical and mental health to fend off the ills of global warming. By Kiffer George Card and Kalysha Closson

There must be a balance between sufficient anxiety to promote positive and urgent change in people’s behaviour, and not so much as to create paralysis. How we communicate facts matters, these researchers say. By Kerrie Pickering and Gary Pickering

By Jong Woo Kang and Albert Park

By Chirag Dhara and Roxy Mathew Koll

By Mia Mottley, Werner Hoyer

By Abdoul Salam Bello, Erivaldo Alfredo Gomes and Wempi Saputra

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A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.

The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.

Eco-Business releases the trailer for a documentary that traces the relationship between ecosystems in the North Pole and Asia, in the second edition of its flagship campaign on climate action, Changing Course.

Juice Media parody ad mocking government inaction on climate change

We're screwed, claims a government parody ad, as politicians drag their heels on climate change. Taking a shot at the Australian government, the video exposes the absurdity of longstanding political inaction to address the climate crisis and puts out a not-so-subtle call for collective action.

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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

What's it like co-writing a 3,500 page report on the dangers of climate change with hundreds of scientists worldwide, over Zoom calls during a pandemic? Eco-Business speaks to authors from the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore who were in the thick of the action.

The Philippines has ended new coal development as it pursues a low-carbon future. Don Paulino of non-profit Philippine Energy Independence Council and boss of Shell's exploration arm, argues why natural gas should remain in the energy mix.

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