Opinion / #climate finance
Policy & Finance
Can COP30 succeed where COP29 failed?
There is scepticism around climate finance through private investments, and if private finance is to play a bigger role, policy reforms ahead of this year’s COP30 are needed. Alternatively, could the G20 or BRICS lead on climate finance?
Carbon & Climate
Sustainability in an unstable world
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.
Policy & Finance
Adaro’s coal spin-off highlights gaps in bank coal exit policies
After spinning off its thermal coal assets, Adaro Energy Group, the world’s sixth-largest coal mining company, will have access to financing from two banks that previously withdrew funding for its aluminum smelter project in February 2023.
Carbon & Climate
Meltdown at the top of the world
The UN has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation as climate change speeds up ice loss not only in the Arctic and Antarctica, but in Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayas, which is warming three times the global average rate.
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Policy & Finance
Getting green investment where it’s needed most
27 January 2025
Policy & Finance
The Fed is running scared of Trump
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance
20 January 2025
Cities
The climate policy pendulum
12 January 2025
Policy & Finance
Malaysia, Indonesia’s journey in pushing for green finance
31 December 2024
Carbon & Climate
The climate crisis is also an inflation crisis
27 December 2024
Policy & Finance
How developing nations can raise money to offset climate crisis
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Policy & Finance
Did COP29 fail women?
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Food & Agriculture
Asean should drive action for agri-food sector after COP29
Policy & Finance
Last chance for the SDGs?
20 November 2024
Policy & Finance
COP29 must deliver the goods
18 November 2024
Policy & Finance
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