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The Brazilian city of Belém will welcome the world at next year’s UN climate summit, but faces a race to be ready. Its residents are calling for a lasting legacy and investment.

European lawmakers have backed plans for the EU to exit a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue when climate policies hit profits.

Scientists say a double whammy of climate change and El Niño lies behind a record-breaking year of extreme weather - and predict there's more to come.

As soaring temperatures drive thousands of Filipino schools to send pupils home, what is the cost to children's education?

作者 Robin Hicks

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作者 Gabrielle See

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To restore Earth’s stability, governments must recognise the need to respect the nine planetary boundaries. This requires a steadfast commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and protecting biodiversity and water resources. 作者 Robert Redford 和 Xiye Bastida

New research by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) shows that disbursing International Development Association (IDA) funds to projects that positively affect people’s lives must overcome major barriers. 作者 Jorge Moreira da Silva

It's ironic that as scientific evidence on climate change and vaccines have become more compelling, public opinion on social media appears more divided. 作者 Dr Geoffrey Dobson

To leverage artificial intelligence to address Southeast Asia's growing threats to food security in light of climate change, the region needs to build capacity, improve financing access and alleviate risks for technology users. 作者 Elyssa Kaur Ludher 和 Kristina Fong

作者 Firdaus Cahyadi

作者 Janet Ranganathan

作者 Monique Barbut 和 Robert Filipp

作者 Henry White

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EB工作室 Investors are starting to feel the effects of climate change in an unexpected place – their financial returns. There are now growing calls within the business community to improve the quality and coverage of climate risk disclosure.

Rich nations need to shift investments into renewables instead, they say. The civic space for demonstrations at this year's climate summit, held in Egypt, is more restricted than the Scotland event last year.

Amid competing concerns such as urban development and tackling climate change, keeping biodiversity conservation in people's minds can be a challenge. Eco-Business asks primatologist Andie Ang how that can be tackled.

EB工作室 Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.

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"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

Scientists in the Global South are studying how solar geoengineering could affect their communities. One team in Pakistan is focusing on malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that affects millions in tropical and sub-tropical countries yearly.

1972年出版的《增长的极限》具有指标意义，它提醒人们增长的不可持续性。书籍作者之一兰德斯最近出版新书《众生的地球》（Earth For All），并在接受Eco-Business访问时谈到我们为何必须整顿好全球经济体系，以及不这么做的后果。

"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.

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