Eco-Business

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

Disputes over voting rules have allowed a small group of countries to block ambition – stalling a global treaty to curb plastic production and pollution.

Considered a “significant escalation” in its global governance aims, China is up against Chile and Belgium to host the treaty’s secretariat.

Here’s what you need to know about the first international agreement focused on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters.

By Mao Xiaoli

By Daisy Dunne, Molly Lempriere, Orla Dwyer, Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney

By David Akana

By Josh Gabbatiss

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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

As the world gathers in the Amazon, political headwinds and fading ambition test the limits of global climate cooperation. By Jacqueline Peel

Policy & Finance

What COP30 must do

By Syeda Rizwana Hasan

By Naporn Popattanachai

By Joel Ong

By Zaynab Sadan

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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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