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Developed nations have committed to providing billions of dollars of 'climate finance' to developing countries, as part of the global effort to tackle climate change.
Polisi & Kewangan
Analysis: Pakistan’s COP29 priorities
The key issue at the UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan will be financing adaptation and mitigation, argues Shafqat Kakakhel.
Polisi & Kewangan
COP29: What is the ‘new collective quantified goal’ on climate finance?
As nations assemble at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, one issue is expected to dominate the summit: climate finance.
The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) has been touted as a key policy for cutting emissions from heavy industries, such as steel and cement production.
Polisi & Kewangan
Can China’s BRI bonds spur sustainable development?
Sisa Kumbahan
Can incinerators solve Vietnam’s waste crisis?
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Polisi & Kewangan
Investments in nature will decide our future
Investing in nature is essential to addressing the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution while fostering global economic resilience.
Governments in the region must fix their opaque regulatory frameworks and make use of innovative financing models, says analyst Shantanu Srivastava.
Given the escalating climate crisis, multilateral lenders must urgently adopt an approach to development aid that emphasises prevention. By incorporating structural vulnerabilities into their allocation formulas, the World Bank and others can strengthen poor countries' resilience and increase fairness, efficiency, and transparency.
Polisi & Kewangan
Developing countries need debt relief to act on climate change
Climate change is not some distant menace; its effects are already being felt worldwide, especially in climate-vulnerable developing economies.
Polisi & Kewangan
Nature as infrastructure
Karbon & Cuaca
How to salvage COP28
Polisi & Kewangan
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
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Urban Asia and its climate adaptation challenge
Studio EB
From sponge cities to coastal forests, Asia is seeking ways to work with nature and prepare for the risks in a warmer-than-expected future. This Eco-Business video looks at what else cities need to do to strengthen climate resilience.
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Polisi & Kewangan
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant governor tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the regulator’s maiden sustainability report that features an empirical study of climate impacts on banks as well as the nation’s first taxonomy.
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change could reduce GDP in developing Asia and the Pacific by 17% by 2070
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB raises developing Asia and the Pacific’s economic growth forecast for 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN urges regional cooperation to accelerate digitalisation of cross-border trade procedures
Asian Development Bank
ADB forecasts developing Asia’s economy to grow 4.9 per cent in 2024
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Costs on the rise and volatile, but trade facilitation could mitigate challenges ahead
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change impacts severely impede SDGs: ADB-UN report
