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Lawsuits are reshaping climate justice following landmark 2025 rulings, with cases rising in the Global South.

Joel Jay Soriano, First Gen's head of strategy and planning, speaking at the Asian Clean Energy Summit

EB Studio As well as adapting to intensifying climate impacts, the Philippines' largest renewable energy company must carefully weigh up how quickly it divests from natural gas, Soriano tells Eco-Business.

Indigenous protests at the recently concluded COP30 echo global climate-justice demands, calling for territorial rights, forest protection and an end to extractive industries – themes strongly reflected in the discussions at the Nyéléni Global Forum on Food Sovereignty held this August in Sri Lanka.

Coastal flooding could bring US$500 billion of annual damages to the Asia-Pacific by the year 2100, if countries do not adapt to rising sea levels.

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The United Nations must clearly define the responsibility of the world's most powerful businesses to help tackle global challenges. By Pauliina Murphy

As the host of this year's UN Climate Change Conference, Brazil seeks to make COP30 the “COP of implementation.” Translating commitments into robust action should include providing indigenous peoples with direct access to predictable and sustainable finance, and treating them as equal partners, rather than as beneficiaries. By Eileen Mairena Cunningham

Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come. By Gernot Wagner

This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts. By Marcella Ribeiro and María Luisa Gómez

By Eva Zabey

By Wenzhong Huang, Shandy (Shanshan) Li and Yuming Guo

By Jacqueline Peel

By Vaidehi Shah

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EB Studio From sponge cities to coastal forests, Asia is seeking ways to work with nature and prepare for the risks in a warmer-than-expected future. This Eco-Business video looks at what else cities need to do to strengthen climate resilience.

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At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.

The chief of a Manila-based nonprofit that advocates for climate finance transparency tells the EB Podcast that so-called Filipino resilience to natural disasters should not be an “excuse” for developers to dodge accountability for substandard flood control projects.

The sea-level rise expert has moved to Hong Kong – now seen as a gateway to more collaboration with China on climate science. But he tells the EB Podcast that data from US agencies is still critical for calculating climate defences in Asia.

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.

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