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#financing 新闻
Women in conservation continue to face significant cultural and systemic challenges, despite efforts to address gender equality across the sector.
Subsidies aren’t enough to develop the battery recycling sector and handle a wave from retired electric vehicles.
Average demand per application was US$15.9 million, with Asia Pacific requesting the second‑largest share. With just US$250 million available against up to US$3 billion in requests, the Fund Responding to Loss and Damage board meeting in Manila will consider initial funding for Caribbean and African countries.
政策和金融
World Bank’s China exit could lead to ‘shrinking balance sheet’, says green finance specialist
World Bank’s planned phase‑out of lending to China by 2031 removes a reliable borrower, risking a smaller balance sheet unless governance and lending rules are updated to channel more capital into riskier, lower‑income countries, according to green finance specialist Christoph Nedopil Wang.
#financing 观点
Cities have shown that a combination of adaptation measures and energy efficiency can save lives, improve well-being, reduce energy costs, and create conditions for sustainable growth. A new partnership seeks to help mayors and city leaders scale up these efforts through technical and financial assistance.
Perhaps the most unsettling lesson from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the gap between what we knew and how we prepared. Countries should use whatever easing of immediate pressures occurs to strengthen resilience before the next shock arrives.
Although the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) that emerged from the last United Nations Climate Conference is unlikely to succeed, critically important global conservation efforts are not doomed.
As the country moves to meet its renewables targets, grid projects must be negotiated so Cambodia retains control over operational data.
#financing 视频
In this wide-ranging fireside chat moderated by Eco-Business CEO Jessica Cheam, AIA Group's chief investment officer Dr Mark Konyn asserts there is “no U-turn” among corporates invested for the long term, even as political regimes change amid a new world order.
There is consensus that coal needs to be retired early in Asia, but the mechanisms for financing the phase-out are not clear. This mini-documentary examines how transition credits work and whether they can fund Southeast Asia's equitable switch to clean power.
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.
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
#financing 播客
The Malaysia-headquartered bank's sustainability chief tells the EB Podcast about the discipline's mandate to prove value, wrestling with NGOs, and greenwashing in finance.
Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.
碳与气候
Jeffrey Sachs: China is unequivocally the world’s climate power today. Asean’s opportunity is next.
独家
The economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network told the Eco-Business Podcast how China’s green industrial and financial capabilities can help accelerate Southeast Asia's transition to net zero.
政策和金融
‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer
At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.
#financing 新闻发布稿
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
AI helping modernise trade across Asia and the Pacific, though adoption gaps remain
#financing 研究
CapitaLand Group
Cities: Possibilities Forum Insights 2024
MyDIGITAL Corporation
Transitioning industrial clusters: Decarbonising Asia’s economy via digitalisation
Fair Finance Asia (FFA)
Towards a gender-transformative energy transition in Asia
Eco-Business, supported by S&P Global
S&P Global CSO roundtable: Insights report
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