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Ahead of mandatory reporting, nearly all small-cap issuers now disclose at least one of TCFD's 11 recommendations, a market regulator study finds. But Scope 3 emissions – still without a fixed disclosure deadline – remain a major challenge.

11 Mar 2025

Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of …

Fourteen years on from the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is back in favour, even in Japan. But renewable energy provides the best alternative to …

Extreme heat events are seriously harming trees, and the impacts are spreading.

The next round of plastics treaty negotiations will take place in Switzerland in August, after countries failed to agree on the rules in South …

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The bill was passed just two days after being tabled in Parliament, despite concerns about inadequate environmental safeguards and high public costs. The government argued that the speed was necessary to secure long-term foreign imports of carbon dioxide.

10 Mar 2025

Bhavreen Kandhari is the co-founder of a network of Indian mothers demanding clean air for their children.

As global warming threatens cocoa production by pushing temperatures beyond optimal levels, manual pollination offers a promising solution to boost yields and support millions of smallholder farmers.

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Upstream interventions for waste reduction are currently underfunded compared to downstream solutions like recycling and recovery, which developing countries may lack capacity for. Financing must support a just transition for informal waste workers, NGOs urge.

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China has been a big part of the [climate] solution for years. People will look to China for additional leadership, considering the United States' retreat...We need to work with China, because China has been able to give some fantastic answers to climate change.

Despite support for action among local communities to protect biodiverse marine reserves like the Derawan archipelago from poaching, the Indonesian authorities have not allocated sufficient resources to conservation. By Dadang Mujiono

10 Mar 2025

Copper, nickel and silicon are the most critical to India’s mineral security due to exponentially rising demand trends and significant supply chain vulnerabilities

India’s journey toward mineral self-reliance hinges on strengthening domestic capabilities and forging strategic global partnerships. By Animesh Ghosh, Soumit Pandey, Vaibhav Chowdhary

The Trumpian approach to critical minerals – evident from the United States' interactions with Ukraine – may force Southeast Asia to choose sides. The region needs to look at diversifying its technical partners in the energy sector. By Mirza Sadaqat Huda

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Andrew Buay, vice president for group corporate sustainability at Singtel, tells the EB Podcast that CSOs should not be precious about losing part of their job as the function evolves.

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A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

Eco-Business interviewed people in East Kalimantan to get a sense of what Indonesians feel about the "smart forest city" being built to replace sinking, polluted Jakarta. Will Nusantara live up to the hype?

A closer look at how these ‘energy transition’ deals are backed reveals gaps in the lending policies of banks in the Mekong subregion. A 1,460-MW dam, now under construction near the Luang Prabang UNESCO World Heritage Site, will see all its electricity sold to Thailand, but critics have pointed out that the nation is facing an oversupply of energy.

The city's plans to halve emissions by 2035 and achieve net zero by 2050 may be ambitious. But NGOs tracking its policy direction over the years are not convinced and demand a more measurable roadmap with interim goals – not just long-term pledges.

Attribution to global warming is still challenging due to the lack of weather stations in rural areas and small islands, according to the Philippine Climate Change Assessment Cycle report.

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Southeast Asia's clean energy transition

At least nineteen million Filipinos are expected to benefit from two new projects approved by the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors, aimed at improving transport connectivity and health services …