Eco-Business

Developing countries call for more support to fight global warming at a climate ambition summit which failed to attract the world's biggest emitters.

Summit this week aims to kickstart progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set back by climate, Covid-19 and economic woes.

Virus is posing an ever-greater threat in Bangladesh and Nepal where rise and spread of cases are linked to climate change impacts.

India’s moon, sun probe shows prowess in space science at a relatively low cost. However, the country's space race success has raised concerns over funding for other sciences.

By Zobaidur Rahman

By Geetika Mishra

By Samantha Ho

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Recovery is being led by high-income countries, with low-income countries lagging far behind, worsening the global employment divide. By Olivier De Schutter

Food & Agriculture

The hunger profiteers

It is hard to predict when exactly food prices will spike again, but there is little doubt that more shocks will come. The consequences are likely to be compounded if a few companies still hold inordinate power over the world’s food systems. By Phil Howard and Jennifer Clapp

A new global platform harnessing AI and machine-learning could quickly identify renewables infrastructure projects worth US$2 trillion. By Aaron Vaden-Youmans, Owen Gaffney and Johan Falk

Respect for human rights must form the basis of any effort to reduce acute hunger – it is the only way to create a sustainable and equitable food system. By Michael Fakhri, Elisabetta Recine, Sofia Monsalve

By Simon Zadek and Jayati Ghosh

By Georg Kell

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By Christy Braham

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A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.

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.

Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.