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China's post-pandemic green recovery measures drove up the country's renewables firms on the Corporate Knights index of the most sustainable 100 firms in the world. Singapore real estate company CDL is Asia's leading firm in the list.

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Financial institutions including HSBC and Bridgewater Associates are backing a public database to simplify access to corporate sustainability data. 'ESG Book', created by data firm Arabesque, aims to standardise multiple corporate disclosures from around the world.

Fresh wave of climate protests to target gas ahead of COP26 summit

Next week, representatives from countries worldwide will haggle on strategies to drive down emissions and barter on policies to prevent a climate crisis. Here is your guide to the key debates and issues.

2021 climate disasters food security

Human-driven climate change is fueling weather extremes — from record drought to massive floods — that are hammering key agricultural regions around the world.

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The ESG movement has largely focused on publicly-traded companies, but private firms, which hire more people and make more money, aren't getting the same attention. Consortiums can be formed to ensure that private organisations also advance their sustainability efforts. By Alex Friedman

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Based on financial inputs from overseas, 40 per cent of 'committed emissions' from a sample of coal plants that have been built or proposed since 2015 could be attributed to these nations – with most of the remainder coming from Chinese banks. By Niccolò Manych and Jan Steckel and Michael Jakob

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Special drawing rights could give indebted countries the flexibility to take climate action that benefits everyone. By Shamshad Akhtar and Paul Steele

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Far from rendering cities obsolete, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called 'creative destruction' on an urban scale. By Carlo Ratti and Richard Florida

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Sponsored What makes cooling such a hot topic when it comes to climate change? This year's #Innovate4Climate summit will look at the problem and potential of sustainable cooling.

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Sponsored Smallholders have taken much of the blame for this year's haze-causing forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan. How can they be motivated to switch to more sustainable, fire-free production methods?

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