Can the forest fund raise enough contributions to meet its target? Will the climate finance roadmap be able to get rich nations to deliver sufficient funding to developing countries? Eco-Business gives a run down on which numbers matter at the world’s biggest climate conference that will kick off in Brazil this week.
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Regulatory uncertainty and grid constraints to cope with intermittency, however, challenge the procurement of corporate power purchase agreements and renewables adoption.
They called for fairer policies, stronger support, and inclusion in global sustainability standards such as Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and EU Deforestation Regulation at annual roundtable conference on sustainable palm oil, RT2025.
The move comes as Thailand is finalising its first-ever Climate Change Act, which is expected to create a legal framework for greenhouse gas reduction, a national climate fund and mechanisms such as carbon trading.
Researchers found that people in poorer communities face a far higher risk of death from diseases after typhoons – with limited healthcare access and flooding from heavy rainfall worsening the impacts.
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Wenzhong Huang, Shandy (Shanshan) Li 和 Yuming Guo
Booming growth in data centres is escalating electricity demand and risks undermining the region’s energy transition goals.
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Muyi Yang, Xiwei Xu 和 David Lo
With investors already confronting the consequences of environmental instability, there can no longer be any doubt that nature risk is financial risk. Asset owners, central banks and institutions like the International Monetary Fund have a responsibility to integrate this awareness into all their activities.
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Julie McCarthy 和
Patrick Odier
Thailand’s Climate Change Act is timely and responsive to public concern, but the current version is a frail gesture addressing a complex problem.
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Watcharapol Supajakwattana 和
Paul Chambers
Southeast Asian nations are racing to bring clean, affordable power to their people, but one country is outrunning them all. How can states make their renewable energy transition a success?
Fishermen are often cut off from land for weeks out at sea. But a new technology enables them to be connected with loved ones, while boosting the traceability of their catch.
Watch this charming video of how Thai farmer Somsak Sriphumthong got rid of a destructive opium field and helped curb deforestation and downstream flooding with his organic and sustainable coffee farm.
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.
Speaking from the INC-5.2 talks in Geneva, the Singapore Youth for Climate Action president argues that having no treaty is better than a watered-down pact with no limits on plastic production. But there is no explicit Asean-wide support for such caps now, she observes.
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Dexter Huerto Jr of engineering firm Danfoss tells the Eco-Business Podcast how food supply chains have been affected by a pandemic and conflict, and how they can be fixed.
"We have a choice about the speed of sea-level rise." The Eco-Business Podcast talks to climate scientist Professor Ben Horton about how close the world is to reaching crucial climate tipping points, and what can be done to stop runaway climate change.