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As conflict in the Middle East drives energy prices up, Singapore's smaller firms should adopt technologies that lower their electricity use and emissions – and make use of a grant to pay for them, a minister has said.

The Philippines signed its first legal framework for trading carbon credits. Experts caution that key rules for measuring and approving emission cuts are still missing.

Mangroves in Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

Conditional approvals were granted to Verra’s revised methodologies for the connection of renewable energy to grids and abatement of methane from coal mines.

Singapore's iconic high-rise skyline, located close to Marina Bay Sands

Co-founded by the former B Lab Southeast Asia executive director Tom Stewart, Adelie will be led locally by ex B Lab UK certification manager James Kelly.

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As national systems rapidly expand in the region, the challenge and opportunity is to align them into an interoperable network that can unlock efficient, trusted, and scalable global climate finance. By Mandy Rambharos

Rainforest in Papua province, Indonesia.

Green policy targets environmental outcomes, while industry and trade focus on jobs and growth. When misaligned, green efforts stall and competitiveness weakens. By William Sabandar

The real drivers of the climate transition are no longer sitting in the sustainability department – they're in finance, as sustainability shifts from the realm of storytelling to accountability. By Kaushik Sridhar

Thailand’s Climate Change Act is timely and responsive to public concern, but the current version is a frail gesture addressing a complex problem. By Watcharapol Supajakwattana and Paul Chambers

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EB Studio About four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by 2050 will live in East or Southeast Asia, creating an urgent need climate-smart solutions for cities. This year’s Innovate4Climate summit will look at the climate-smart solutions the region needs.

Achim Steiner talking at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore. Image UNDP Asia Pacific

The IPCC's climate warning is an opportunity for the business world to show leadership, said UNDP's Achim Steiner in the opening speech at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore.

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China has provided huge funding supposedly to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate impacts, but it is also financing coal projects included in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). What do recipient countries make of this?

It has been said that the fight against climate change will be won in cities. In this video by C40, mayors of the world’s mega cities share what they are doing to address the most pressing climate threats.

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L'Occitane's Asia Pacific director of sustainability Venisa Chu

The Asia Pacific ESG head of the B Corp-certified cosmetics firm says refill stations have been disappointing and getting suppliers on board with decarbonisation is difficult, but her team has not been affected by the ESG backlash.

In the first of a podcast series featuring Southeast Asia's clean energy entrepreneurs, the CEO of Gurin Energy says that Asean countries will be left behind in artificial intelligence and robotics if the region does not connect its grid and deploy renewables at speed and scale.

Andrew Buay, vice president for group corporate sustainability at Singtel, tells the EB Podcast that CSOs should not be precious about losing part of their job as the function evolves.

The climate non-profit's head Sherry Madera insists there are just 450 questions, not over 5,500 as some industry players have cited, in its new questionnaire, which has faced pushback for failing to ease disclosure burden as intended.

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