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A protest for climate justice in the Philippines

Policy & Finance

‘Businesses fear regulation on transition-washing’: Environmental lawyer Joyce Melcar Tan

The new head of Japan and Southeast Asia for ClientEarth tells the Eco-Business Podcast how the law can be used to hold polluters to account in the world's biggest emitting region. She also says it's time the legal profession faced scrutiny for greenwashing.
Action against greenwashing in Asia

Policy & Finance

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.
The Eco-Business Podcast

Energy

End fossil fuel extraction now: What IEA’s net-zero alert means for the climate fight

Eco-Business talks to Peter Kiernan, lead energy analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, to unpack a new landmark report from the International Energy Agency, which proposes an immediate ban on fossil fuels extraction to curb global warming.
Coal-fired power planet

Policy & Finance

Asia’s net zero goals — how realistic are they?

China, Japan and Korea have just announced exciting decarbonisation targets. On the Eco-Business podcast, Dr Frank Rijsberman, director general of the Global Green Growth Institute, talks about what these targets mean for the region's development and our climate.

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7 September 2020

Nodules on the deep sea floor

Energy

Why the worry about deep-sea mining?

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