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Southeast Asian nations offer more tax breaks, subsidies and investment in charging stations to boost electric vehicle (EV) sector.

When asked if affected parties can file their complaints with an accountability mechanism it has in place, the Asian Development Bank said that people should first turn to a grievance redress channel that the Cirebon 1 operator has set up at the project level.

Big companies branding themselves as climate leaders often have patchy plans to fulfil their promises, according to new research.

The EU’s newly agreed carbon border levy may act as an ‘external incentive’ to motivate China’s carbon market to grow.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Gianluca Cerullo

By Jency Samuel

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Without a concerted effort by governments and international financial institutions to harmonise standards and strengthen incentives for investments in decarbonisation across the developing world, mid-century net-zero targets will slip out of reach. Three issues, in particular, warrant greater attention. By Sumant Sinha

Climate change-induced drought in Mongolia

The fallout from Covid-19, climate change and conflicts are no longer isolated pockets of misery. We need a new multilateral system – one mirroring national schemes on taxes, incentives and accountability – to provide global public goods. By Mauricio Cárdenas

Forests cleared along Oregon’s Coast Range in the US

Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees. By Beverly Law and William Moomaw

WWF's Margaret Kuhlow argues that investment in both human and planetary health must be the bedrock of resilience, recovery and prosperity amid the pandemic. By Margaret Kuhlow

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World Resources Institute

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury

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