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Just one river is due to have 36 hydropower projects, with local people saying the impacts of tunnelling the mountainside are already forcing them to leave their homes.

Indigenous peoples workers in Rio Tuba Mining Corp

Efforts by the industry to make improvements are not well-publicised, while the reporting of 'unfortunate' incidents skews the views of the public, says Bunye, who is also a member of the legal committee of the Philippines' Chamber of Mines, in the wake of anti-mining protests in the archipelago.

Indonesia’s plan to build its new capital city on an expiring logging concession in eastern Borneo has sparked concerns among environmental and human rights observers about the larger eco-social impacts to the rest of the island.

The former lawyer and Eco-Business A-List winner on the forefront of an anti-mining war in her hometown in Palawan shares how she deals with rampant bribery and attempts by her opponents to silence her. The people inspire her to fight on, she says.

By Rhick Albay

By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

By John Cannon

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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In Asean, there is no general regional agreement securing environmental rights and obligations but the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution is an example of a sectoral achievement. By Linda Yanti Sulistiawati

A more radical level of accountability is needed for carbon markets. It is also time to establish minimum price floors, in order to crowd out poor-quality offsets and actors, especially for the Global South, says Simon Zadek. By Simon Zadek

Indigenous leaders are some of the clearest voices recognising that it can’t be business as usual for climate. The solution is before us: integrating Western and Indigenous law creates a path to a better future. By Anne Poelina

While the world made some progress in 2022 to address climate change and protect nature, much remains to be done to overcome entrenched interests. By May Boeve

By Henrik Svedäng

By Allan Rarai and Meg Parsons

By Arindam Roy

By Juan Manuel Santos

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Mining operations at Altai Philippines Mining Corporation have been suspended for now, after week-long protests from locals of Sibuyan Island in Romblon, who claimed the extraction of nickel ore will disrupt the island’s intact ecosystems.

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The stories of Malaysia’s indigenous tribes are now being captured through the fresh lenses of young female filmmakers. In this bilingual podcast recorded in English and Bahasa Melayu, they tell Eco-Business why they've picked up the camera.

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