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Communities in Asia and least developed countries that contribute least to climate change are among those 15 times more likely to die from natural disasters, said the IPCC in the final part of its sixth assessment report.

Bank chief sustainability officers are paid the most, NGO executives the least. Sustainability salaries in Singapore are growing but the level of salary increment is levelling off as the talent pool starts to mature, according to recruiter Michael Page.

The report by a group led by economist Thomas Piketty proposes a global progressive wealth tax between 1.5 to 3 per cent on centimillionaires to generate US$295 billion a year—of which US$91 billion could come from Asia.

The former National Environment Agency officer joins EDB after more than a year with non-profit SEC.

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Demilitarisation and sustainable development should be top priorities for Asean-Japan cooperation amid a fragmented geopolitical shifting world order. By Jessica Cheam

Concrete plans and financing will be needed. The COP27 and COP15 summits can also be combined, writes former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. Climate change and biodiversity loss must be addressed in tandem. By Juan Manuel Santos

Investments into adaptation will fall short of what is needed if it is only reliant on governments and multilateral organisations. There is a clear business case for the private sector to step up. By Neo Gim Huay

Carbon & Climate

The implementation COP

Many are calling the upcoming UN climate change conference in Egypt “Africa’s COP.” But Africans prefer to see it instead as “the implementation COP” – a meeting that will move beyond lofty aspirations and ambitious pledges to translate the achievements of past summits into global cooperation on comprehensive climate action. By Josefa Leonel Sacko, Kevin Kariuki and Ibrahima Cheikh Diong

Carbon & Climate

The COP of no return

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By Isabella Massa, Gillaume Lafortune and Simona Marinescu

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Do children ask the toughest questions? This World Oceans Day, we get renowned oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle, founder of Mission Blue, to field questions from curious kids on the mysteries of the deep.

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.

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On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood.

In the video, environmental law group ClientEarth compares the oil and gas giant's advertisements on its low-carbon investments to a burger chain claiming that they’re vegan because they’ve got salad on the menu.

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EB Studio Covid-19 didn't kill events, but it did change them. Teymoor Nabili and Veemal Gungadin tell the Eco-Business Podcast how a pandemic transformed the way sustainability events are conceived and organised.

A US$22 billion project involving 12,000 hectares of solar panels and 3,800km of cabling running from Darwin to Singapore might be the most ambitious renewable energy project ever. How will it work? Eco-Business talked to Fraser Thompson of project developer Sun Cable.

China, Japan and Korea have just announced exciting decarbonisation targets. On the Eco-Business podcast, Dr Frank Rijsberman, director general of the Global Green Growth Institute, talks about what these targets mean for the region's development and our climate.

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