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Kishore Mahbubani at Unlocking capital for sustainability 2024

When geopolitics interferes, humanity cannot choose the best leaders to tackle climate change, warned the Singaporean ex-diplomat at the Unlocking capital for sustainability forum.

17 Sep 2024

By expanding beyond power generation, the market will increase its trading, diversity and liquidity, raising carbon asset value.

A tribunal in India is looking at conflicting data over the size of the country’s tree cover in a dispute over what counts as …

At least 41 commercial carbon capture and storage projects are operating worldwide; the majority are managed by fossil fuel companies, such as ExxonMobil and …

Ravi Menon at Unlocking capital for sustainability 2024

Citing estimates, former central banker Ravi Menon says a carbon price of just US$20 per tonne could halve Southeast Asia's deforestation rate. At the …

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In Bhutan, local communities are increasingly turning to eco-tourism as a way to both revive their economies — and help protect the surrounding environment and endangered species.

16 Sep 2024

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Recent attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan province have cast a spotlight on the challenges facing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Despite mounting security concerns and shifting project dynamics, both countries remain committed to the project.

Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research.

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Southeast Asia is a particularly vulnerable region to climate threats. Digital solutions may be key to helping the region shore up resilience against economic losses and increasing climate-induced extreme weather events.

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Asia will have to work towards decoupling economic growth from emissions...There can be no compromise on the eventual goal: close to net-zero emissions around the middle of the century. That timeline is set not by politics or economics, but by nature.

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Collectively imagined visions for the Philippines may be promoted through visual arts and scenario planning in order to achieve a clean energy future. By Philline van der Wolk-Donggay

16 Sep 2024

Enshrining free, prior and informed consent in Malaysian law can improve the credibility of carbon projects. In the meantime, carbon conversations must include Indigenous voices and wisdom. By Samantha Ho

The poor and their waste management practices are often condemned for being one of the main reasons behind flooding in the Philippines. Research shows such stereotypes are false and harmful. By Veronica Gregorio

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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.

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This special report looks at how a coal plant in Batangas, Philippines, could become the world’s first to be retired using the novel class of carbon credits. Are the methodologies sound, and how will just transition plans be implemented?

After just over a year since the MT Princess Empress disaster in Oriental Mindoro, environmental groups have renewed calls to ‘make polluters pay’ as the nation grapples with more frequent super typhoons and yet another massive oil spill, now closer to the Philippine capital.

On International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, Eco-Business looks at the unexpected rapid growth of a thriving mangrove forest in Iloilo City, Philippines, following the completion of a man-made floodway.

Urban Asia is facing a perfect storm. Sea levels are rising, rainfall is becoming erratic, yet more people than ever are moving into cities, leading to tensions and pressures. This report looks at how Asia’s coastal cities can adapt.

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Southeast Asia's clean energy transition

Governments must do more to utilise universal social protection to adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change and achieve a just transition, according to a new ILO report.

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Ecosperity Week 2024 post-conference report: Renewing our Vibrant Spring

From phasing out fossil fuels in Southeast Asia to pricing nature risks into investment decisions, Ecosperity Week 2024 convened some of the world's biggest real economy players, financiers, carbon market …