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Not enough is being done to protect workers' health as heatwaves fuelled by climate change increase the risks, labour experts say.

As COP29 president Mukhtar Babayev outlines climate plans for the upcoming negotiations during the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev said at the same event that it won’t stop investing in oil and gas.

A growing number of lawsuits against companies and states could spur greater action to tackle climate change.

The Philippines’ environment agency wants to be part of a group that supports plastic production cuts, but the bureau of investments is likely opposing it due to links to the plastics industry, say Filipino participants attending the negotiations in Ottawa.

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As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely populated cities. By Yuming Guo and Wenhua Yu

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Across the region, it’s never been more critical to cultivate a resilient healthcare workforce capable of addressing climate-induced public health issues. By Gabriela Fernando and Angie Bone

Regular stakeholder consultation is needed to address climate change and lessen pollution-related health impacts. By Pinki Chahal and Durairaj Kumarasamy

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Human health relies on healthy ecosystems, but these are under threat. Securing the right to live in a healthy environment is crucial for all. By Chris Beyrer

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By Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Johan Rockström

By Mohamed Nasheed and Rakesh Mohan

By Robert Redford and Xiye Bastida

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EB Studio 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.

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.

Exclusive In this exclusive interview to mark Earth Day, Eco-Business speaks to Dr Sylvia Earle, oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue, who draws the link between our climate crisis and the health of our oceans.

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.

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Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.

EB Studio If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.

"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.

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