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Heavy rainfall across the region was caused by the combination of natural phenomena and climate change but in Indonesia's Sumatra, where the most lives have been lost, the scale of disaster was worsened by deforestation.

Ocean-based goals in submitted Nationally Determined Contributions overlook tougher targets including fossil fuel phase-out.

Four island residents take a Swiss cement giant to court while restoring nature at home.

Cows bathing in Lake Toba, north Sumatra.

Research warns that Southeast Asian and Indian lenders are overlooking major climate, biodiversity and public-health risks tied to Asia’s fast-growing protein demand. Only three banks reference animal welfare principles in their lending policies.

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作者 Chen Yu

作者 Johanes Hutabarat

作者 Muhammad Arief Virgy, Hanifah Alya Chaerunnisaa

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Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil. 作者 Nemonte Nenquimo, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim 和 Rukka Sombolinggi

Three decades after the optimism of the 1992 Earth Summit, the climate regime faces a tough test. The retreat of multilateralism and the rules-based international order has left COP30 struggling to hold together the fading promise of global action. 作者 Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama

Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. Asean can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it. 作者 Mirza Sadaqat Huda

If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans. 作者 Binbin Mariana

作者 Lintang Ambar Pramesti and Suwanto

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作者 Muyi Yang, Xiwei Xu 和 David Lo

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A growing number of companies are admitting that they can't meet their sustainability targets. Has the era of "corporate vulnerability" begun, where companies are more honest about their sustainability progress?

While some companies greenhush, others are upfront about their inability to meet sustainability targets. Eco-Business asked experts at the Ecosperity conference if it pays for businesses to be "vulnerable" about sustainability progress.

Wily Salim, founder and director, PT Karmic Virya Abadi

The convergence of the compliance and voluntary markets, demand for high-quality carbon credits and efforts to raise the bar on project credibility mean the conditions are right for a market rebound, observers said at the GenZero Climate Summit in Singapore.

The origin of Covid-19 is believed to be a market selling live wild animals. Eco-Business asked Anbarasi Boopal of Singapore-based animal welfare charity Acres about the link between the exploitation of animals and pandemics, and what can be done to curb the illegal wildlife trade.

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Improving energy efficiency could meet a quarter of Southeast Asia’s emissions reduction targets. Here is how efficiency could drive Southeast Asia's energy transition.

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The region has been historically underrepresented in leadership at global standard setters like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Sharath Martin, who holds positions in global accounting body ACCA and WWF-Malaysia, tells the Eco-Business Podcast what must change.

Southeast Asian energy ministers will meet in October to discuss the future of the region’s power grid. GEAPP’s Kitty Bu tells the Eco-Business podcast what areas they must collaborate on, and how finance and industry can help.

In the first of a podcast series featuring Southeast Asia's clean energy entrepreneurs, the CEO of Gurin Energy says that Asean countries will be left behind in artificial intelligence and robotics if the region does not connect its grid and deploy renewables at speed and scale.

Ani Dasgupta, CEO of World Resources Institute

The chief executive of World Resources Institute also told the Eco-Business Podcast that the gutting of USAID is less of a concern than how to unlock private capital for climate and nature in developing countries.

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