Eco-Business

The European Union-Asean Business Council called on the Phillippines to steer member states into strengthening licensing and oversight frameworks for high risk goods like fuel, wildlife, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and alcohol.

Colombia has been pushing for a binding global minerals treaty at several key UN meetings, including at the seventh UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) last December.

The position had been vacant for four months amid a deadlock in negotiations for the treaty to curb global plastic pollution.

Strategically engaging can help shape China's emerging environmental leadership.

By Emma Bryce

By Jiang Mengnan, Daniel Cressey, Regina Lam

By Louise Krüger

By Mao Xiaoli

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The Trump Administration has broken with the tradition of pursuing its national interests in tandem with an emphasis on alliances and values. Southeast Asian countries will respond accordingly. By Derek Grossman

As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds. By Hossain Ahmed Taufiq and Jonas Gamso

China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while sidestepping tougher cuts and accountability. By Alex Lo

COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence. By Binaifer Nowrojee

By Jacqueline Peel

Policy & Finance

What COP30 must do

By Syeda Rizwana Hasan

By Naporn Popattanachai

By Joel Ong

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More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.

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EB Studio As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.

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