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United Nations climate summit president Mukhtar Babayev highlights the new climate finance target as top priority for the November talks. Will Azerbaijan be able to get the dealmakers, including China, to agree on a price to pay to help developing countries adapt to climate change?

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China’s Third Plenum, an important five-yearly meeting traditionally associated with major economic reforms, concluded on 18 July in Beijing.

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Climate change is driving or contributing to increased risk of extreme wildfires in many parts of the world, and experts say urgent action on …

Nitrogen fertilisers, manure and other agricultural sources drove almost three-quarters of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions in recent years.

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Advocates point to lower emissions despite high costs and long-term footprint.

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Environmental issues are subordinate to the strategic imperative of countering US influence. That could ultimately weaken the relationship amid shake-ups in global trade.

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United Nations chief António Guterres called ad agencies "enablers to planetary destruction". The industry's biggest ad firms have not responded to calls to drop fossil fuels clients. Dirty energy ads will have to be banned before agencies transition, say NGOs

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Tools already exist for the oil and gas industry to reduce methane and massively decrease global emissions. Firmer regulations, however, may be the only way to stop polluters.

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There’s a fifty-fifty chance that the average temperature for the entire next five-year period will be 1.5 degrees higher than pre-industrial times. We are playing Russian roulette with our planet. We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell.

International financial flows and mechanisms must be improved to support instead of burden climate adaptation and energy transition efforts of the world's most vulnerable countries. By Mia Mottley and Wale Edun

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Eco-anxiety is a healthy psychological response, says 24-year-old activist Clover Hogan. The founder of nonprofit Force of Nature tells the Eco-Business Podcast how to respond to anxiety in a world that is "numb" to the climate crisis.

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Follow the region's used textiles on a journey through sorting, upcycling and recycling as they are diverted from the landfills.

Going 100 per cent organic is not easy for smallholder farmers in the region. Is there a middle road to take where a gradual shift can be managed, while ensuring that the livelihoods of farmers are taken care of?

Women sift sand, hunting for tiny plastic pellets and other debris still washing ashore since the sinking of the X-Press Pearl, a vessel containing chemicals and plastics, in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Six months after the sinking of the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl off the coast of Colombo, local communities are trying to recover from one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

Trying to lead a more sustainable lifestyle is often fraught with controversy, contradiction and hypocrisy, and tackling big problems like climate change and social inequality can seem futile. But there are some things you can do to make a difference in the Year of the Tiger. Here are 22 of them...

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Southeast Asia's clean energy transition

Malaysia is committed to an eventual but complete phase-out of single-use plastics, with Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation set to accelerate action when implemented within the nation’s long-term sustainability roadmap, …

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Ecosperity Week 2024 post-conference report: Renewing our Vibrant Spring

From phasing out fossil fuels in Southeast Asia to pricing nature risks into investment decisions, Ecosperity Week 2024 convened some of the world's biggest real economy players, financiers, carbon market …