This year, readers paid attention to how climate featured on critical electoral campaigns that saw leadership change hands. Cebu and Bali, both popular tourist destinations, featured on the top story list, but for very different reasons.
Eleven years after Typhoon Yolanda and in the wake of six consecutive tropical storms, Filipinos want more climate accountability from corporates and the government. The intensifying cyclones highlight growing vulnerabilities, they say.
Aquatic foods are vital for the future of our changing world, and more support is needed to prioritise them, say the leaders of the UN’s Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue.
Investors risk pouring billions into what could soon become stranded assets in countries such as the Philippines. Liquified natural gas is not the future – it’s a financial trap.
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Kurt Metzger
While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long way toward advancing this objective, while generating much-needed revenues for climate-vulnerable developing countries.
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Shania Scotland
Although most people care deeply about addressing the climate crisis, only a minority of respondents in recent surveys trust their governments to achieve a fair and just net-zero transition.
By
Laurence Tubiana and
Ana Toni
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Jack Johnson says yes, but it is a long road ahead. In this exclusive interview, we ask the American singer-songwriter and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador about his hopes for the state of the world and how music plays a role in providing a dose of optimism in dark times.
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Thinking about your carbon footprint can be mind-boggling. Even if you wanted to do something about it, where do you start? With this mobile app, all the information you need is at your fingertips.
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Singaporeans are well-known foodies, but around 800,000 tonnes of food is wasted every year. Why is so much food wasted, and what can consumers do about it?
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Plastic waste is flooding the planet. Instead of waiting for regulation to drive change, give value to recyclables and mobilise the people, says Plastic Bank.
Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.
Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.
Entrepreneur Steve Melhuish tells the EB Podcast where the biggest opportunities to reduce emissions and make money are in Southeast Asia, and why finding the right economic incentives is critical for climate tech startups.