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Karbon & Iklim
COP30 is in good hands with Brazil: Christiana Figueres
The architect of the Paris Agreement says Brazil will not be influenced by fossil fuel companies like previous petrostate COP hosts, even if the Latin American nation is looking to expand exploration of oil in the Amazon rainforest.
Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects. The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating into these same forests.
The story, penned by Iloilo-based writer Rhick Lars Albay, documented the rapid growth of a coastal forest in his hometown and explained how mangrove mapping could be an effective decision-making tool for the region. It was recognised for being a story of triumph.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Trump foreign aid freeze hits climate journalism grants for developing Asia
Threats by President Donald Trump's administration to shut down USAID, however, so far have had little impact on sustainability-related funding for non-profits in the region that Eco-Business spoke to, though concerns of a "ripple effect" of the rise of right-wing politics in the West linger.
Karbon & Iklim
Southeast Asia’s environmental defenders on the frontline
Kebijakan & Keuangan
In Thailand, SLAPP laws are silencing environmental journalists and activists
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Just transitions in the Mekong: China’s role in trade and investment
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Karbon & Iklim
This election year, let’s talk climate
With over 2 billion people set to vote, 2024 will be a critical year for climate action. News outlets need to step up to help the electorate understand what is at stake.
Karbon & Iklim
Exploring the intersection of business and our ecology
Founder and managing director Jessica Cheam investigates the relationship between business and our natural world, and shares about the genesis of Eco-Business in this book chapter contribution to 'Peace and Nature', a book compilation of 50 essays and edited by Professor Tommy Koh, Lye Lin Heng and Shawn Lum launched in Singapore recently.
Karbon & Iklim
How to tell moving climate stories
Well-told human-interest stories are key to moving readers and prompting climate action. How to write them in China?
Kebijakan & Keuangan
How to save Indonesia’s independent media voices
Journalism has to stop sustained attacks on alternative media outlets.
#journalism Podcasts
Karbon & Iklim
The challenges of the environment beat: A conversation with journalists in Southeast Asia
The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to reporters Nadiah Rosli, Adelia Dinda Sani, Gerald Flynn and Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez about funding limits, data access, and reporting against the odds in one of the world's most climate-vulnerable regions.
Karbon & Iklim
‘The problem is not that young people are eco-anxious. It’s that people in positions of power are not’: activist Clover Hogan
Eco-anxiety is a healthy psychological response, says 24-year-old activist Clover Hogan. The founder of nonprofit Force of Nature tells the Eco-Business Podcast how to respond to anxiety in a world that is "numb" to the climate crisis.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Is Asia slower to tackle greenwashing because it is conflict avoidant?
Japan-based academic Kim Schumacher, who coined the term "competence greenwashing", believes that the pursuit of societal harmony might be standing in the way of Asia calling out greenwashing. He tells the Eco-Business Podcast how exaggerated ESG claims are likely to be tackled in 2023 and beyond.
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Association of Young Environmental Journalists (AYEJ)
AYEJ launches environmental journalism trainings in six climate vulnerable areas in the Philippines
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
New joint UN report calls for urgent action to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies to prevent risks to all SDGs
