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Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office, accusing 47 companies in the palm oil, mining and forestry sectors of corruption and environmental destruction, allegedly causing 437 trillion rupiah (US$26.5 billion) in state losses.

Local Indigenous communities say the mining sites have put their food security at risk, with pollution affecting fruit trees and root vegetables as well as depletion of local fisheries.

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The former president was arrested this week for his alleged role in thousands of extrajudicial killings. Philippine civil society is still reckoning with the Duterte-era crackdown two and a half years after he left office.

China and Pakistan have announced an upgraded CPEC, but security risks and financial hurdles still cloud the future of energy investments, write experts from IEEFA and Pakistan-China Institute.

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Oleh Mohammad Yunus

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Energy transition research addressing the range of equity concerns across India’s socioeconomic groups and regions is rare. This needs to change. Oleh Dr Aishwarya Ramachandran, Animesh Ghosh dan Vaibhav Chowdhary

Five looming decisions in the development finance world could help to mitigate environmental and social risks of transition minerals, write Boston University researchers. Oleh Julie Radomski dan Rebecca Ray

Even though the global economy depends on a stable climate and reliable ecosystem services, businesses and financial institutions are not required or incentivised to invest in nature. Central banks and supervisors could change that trajectory simply by fulfilling their financial-stability mandate. Oleh Julie McCarthy

The rise of 'greenhushing' – when companies downplay environmental risks for financial or political reasons – reflects not just changing communications strategies, but rising tensions between competing priorities. Oleh Bertrand Badré dan Thomas Crampton

Oleh Animesh Ghosh, Soumit Pandey, Vaibhav Chowdhary

Oleh Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Oleh Abhimanyu Singh Rana

Oleh Chelsea Hodgkins

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The veteran journalist talks to Eco-Business about how his Emmy-nominated documentary depicts the lives of environmental crusaders in Asia's deadliest country for guardians of the seas and forests.

Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.

Mining operations at Altai Philippines Mining Corporation have been suspended for now, after week-long protests from locals of Sibuyan Island in Romblon, who claimed the extraction of nickel ore will disrupt the island’s intact ecosystems.

Studio EB There are vast mineral riches lying on the ocean floor that could help to power the energy transition, but is the environmental cost of extracting them worth the risk?

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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.

The clean energy sector’s poor human rights performance places its legitimacy at risk. Jessie Cato of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sheds light on how the industry can avoid labour abuse, land grabs and other violations.

Studio EB Mining can come at great environmental cost, but is necessary to fuel the energy transition. Michael Salvatico from Trucost tells the Eco-Business podcast about the risk and opportunity confronting Australia's mining sector — and what it could mean for Asia Pacific.

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