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Delivering his address at the World Economic Forum, vice-premier Ding Xuexiang said China’s green pursuits are long-term and not “an act of expediency”. He is the first senior Chinese leader to address concerns over an imminent tariff war since US president Donald Trump kicked off his second term.

Before turning to innovative mechanisms to close the over US$700 billion gap in nature funding per year, firms and banks must cease financing harmful activities, says Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures co-chair David Craig in an interview with Eco-Business during his Singapore visit.

The Beijing-headquartered state-owned multinational bank is the first Chinese financial institution representative on the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, which now has 40 members.

Biodiversity bonds hit new highs and record shareholder resolutions on nature were filed. But conservation-renewables trade-offs and absent finance pledges from rich nations at COP16 may test this asset class's resilience in the year ahead.

作者 Gabrielle See

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Malaysia and Indonesia are advancing green finance to tackle climate change, but face hurdles like unclear standards and public awareness. 作者 Siti Hafsyah Idris, Lee Wei Chang 和 Iman Prihandono

Building indigenous capacities to produce raw materials for lithium-ion batteries will be crucial for achieving energy transition goals. 作者 Abhimanyu Singh Rana

If a tea seller or a street vendor in Mumbai had drafted the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, they might have looked very different. The focus on Global North research in academia needs to shift. 作者 Surya Deva, Talya Swissa

Universities, not beholden to election cycles or shareholder demands, can invest in research to generate long-term climate data and transcend disciplinary silos, unlike other traditional institutions. 作者 Lian Pin Koh

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作者 Raksha Pandya-Wood, Azliyana Azhari

作者 Vaibhav Chowdhary 和 Venugopal Mothkoor

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EB工作室 Asia's green transition pathways need to be socially inclusive given huge differences in economic development across the region, says experts at the Boston Consulting Group. State-owned enterprises have an "outsized" role to play, they add.

Gaurav Sant, founder of startup SeaChange, tells Eco-Business about a technology he hopes will give the world's oceans the capacity to absorb additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

As planetary temperatures reach an all-time high, a climate scientist has designed a new way to show how global temperatures have changed every month since the start of the industrial revolution and 2021.

EB工作室 Singaporeans are well-known foodies, but around 800,000 tonnes of food is wasted every year. Why is so much food wasted, and what can consumers do about it?

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EB工作室 CapitaLand sustainability chiefs Vinamra Srivastava and Giovanni Cossu tell the Eco-Business Podcast that there is a viable path to net zero for the world's fastest growing cities.

A researcher lived with camel herders in Inner Mongolia for years to find out how they're coping with both conservation schemes and modernisation. He tells the Eco-Business Podcast about their challenges and lessons for the world.

The heat is on Formula 1 to curb its carbon footprint.

Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.

Goumbook launched a regional oceans network that brought discussions on the blue economy to the forefront at the last COP summit. Founder Tatiana Abella tells the Eco-Business Podcast why healthy oceans are important for the Middle East.

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