Eco-Business

United Nations climate summit president Mukhtar Babayev highlights the new climate finance target as top priority for the November talks. Will Azerbaijan be able to get the dealmakers, including China, to agree on a price to pay to help developing countries adapt to climate change?

As climate tech funding cools, the Singapore state-owned investor has launched an investment scheme betting on long-term returns from green assets, such as early-stage decarbonisation solutions in green steel and battery storage.

IFAD chief sounds alarm on global hunger saying millions could face food insecurity by 2030 without swift action.

A look at Southeast Asia's evolving landscape of solar energy adoption, from achievements to hurdles and future aspirations.

By Elizabeth Fitt

By Aruna Chandrasekhar, Yanine Quiroz

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

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Funders put billions into the ‘blue economy’ but are ignoring its core principles of equity and sustainability, says Essam Yassin Mohammed. By Essam Yassin Mohammed

The concept of a just transition has become mainstream, as seen from initiatives across the world, from Dubai to China, New Zealand, and the Philippines. However, the role that private actors can and should play in this remains unclear. By Inés Jiménez Rodríguez, Joachim Roth and Jodi-Ann Wang

There is still ambiguity in how penalties for bad waste management are enforced. The lack of data on the waste being imported into Malaysia makes it difficult for authorities to assess the risks associated with transboundary waste imports. By Mohd Yusoff Ishak

House Bill 7705, the low carbon economy bill, could help the climate-vulnerable nation seize the economic opportunities that come with decarbonisation. By Ping Manongdo

By Celine Tan

By Mohamed Nasheed and Rakesh Mohan

By Jorge Moreira da Silva

By Helen Clark and Soumya Swaminathan

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EB Studio Investors are starting to feel the effects of climate change in an unexpected place – their financial returns. There are now growing calls within the business community to improve the quality and coverage of climate risk disclosure.

Jovie Montajes, founder of Light of Hope PH

After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.

Pension funds are some of the world's largest investors—holding trillions in assets—billions of which are pumped into fossil fuel companies like Shell, BP, and Total.

Eminent speakers and thousands of attendees discussed strategies for a resource-efficient future at Ecosperity Week 2019. As they heard about the science of global warming, delegates were called upon to be part of the solution.

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ADX's chief strategy and transformation officer Matthias Büchler tells the Eco-Business podcast why sustainability is a key growth strategy and how the COP summit shaped ESG reporting for listed companies on the exchange.

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.

EB Podcast with Elena Philipova, director of sustainable finance, Refinitiv

It is no longer business as usual when it comes to how we tackle climate change and rising global temperatures. Eco-Business speaks to Elena Philipova of Refinitiv about how data can ensure countries and businesses are delivering on pledges to decarbonise.

What are the dangers of gender bias in technology design and what are the market opportunities for womentech—technologies that centre the needs of women?

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