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Multilateral development banks provide record climate finance of close to US$61 billion for low, middle-income economies in 2022

...2025 climate finance targets they set themselves at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in 2019. These included delivering an expected collective total of US$50 billion cl...

16 Oct 2023

Greenpeace and other environmental groups are demanding that governments ban single-use plastic sachets by 2030.

...2025. And with only 9 per cent of the plastic produced globally ever recycled, we know that’s not the solution. Due to the absence of big brands' responsibility and initiatives over post-consumption ...

6 Nov 2023

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...2025-2027 during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), participants reaffirmed China’s industrialisation training support for people across the continent, particularly through capacity-buildi...

6 Dec 2024

...2025, the Vietnam National Assembly determined that whereas local governments could previously approve the removal of the restrictions, any such change must now also be consistent with provincial land...

1 Jul 2024

...2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, with 21 March to become annual World Glacier Day. What happens when a mountain glacier melts? China’s glaciers are mostly to be found on the Qing...

9 Jan 2025

UN forum catalyses collective action to make feminist finance a reality for Asia and the Pacific

...2025. “While challenges still remain, the opportunity of investing in women is crystal clear,” Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secr...

26 May 2024

...2025 – the most aggressive scenario projected by the report, and one which Prabowo is aiming for – demand for palm oil will increase to 75.63 million mt by 2042, it noted. “The current production will...

30 Oct 2024

...2025 but construction issues have held up the project.

19 Jun 2024

Geo Connect Asia 2024: Exploring the transformative power of geospatial technologies in Southeast Asia

...2025. With Asean's population of over 660 million and its strong ties to the maritime, agricultural and natural resource sectors, there's common ground for sharing solutions and fostering collaborati...

1 Mar 2024

Advancing shared prosperity through biodiversity-friendly trade

...2025. “The Bio Trade Congress reminds us of the importance of putting people, societies and the environment before capital, by looking more closely at social and solidarity economy models to ad...

1 Apr 2024

...2025 to "align them closely with the UNFCCC process and the outcomes it must deliver".

12 Nov 2024

...2025. The Philippines has no explicit form of carbon pricing. Under the new Low Carbon Investment Act of 2023 approved by the climate change committee of the lower house of Congress earlier this month...

30 Aug 2024

...2025). Those plans stated that by the end of 2025, daily domestic waste incineration capacity for urban areas (meaning counties and towns, but not villages) will reach about 800,000 tonnes, while in c...

6 Sep 2023

...2025 and a suggestion that it might be more effective for Malaysia to just focus on ensuring that a carbon price will be imposed by the same year. To these comments, he expressed confidence that conse...

31 Jul 2024

...2025, China will have rules and standards in place for calculating a product’s carbon footprint, and a database of such footprints. That will allow a single system for verification and labelling. Expe...

5 Nov 2024

CDL is first real estate company to launch SME Supplier Queen Bee programme to help local SMEs strengthen decarbonisation efforts

...2025. Leveraging CDL’s sustainability leadership and expertise, the Programme aims to empower CDL’s selected 100 local SME suppliers to embark on their decarbonisation journey through enh...

7 May 2024

...2025. "We are expecting a 'people's NDC' this time, which means more grassroots participation and more youth voices in the decision process," said YouthNet's Rahman. Yunus has reportedly pledged to wo...

22 Aug 2024

...2025. Siddiqi said that the economic outlook has "defied expectations" and showed some early signs of recovery. "Foreign exchange reserves have stabilised over the past three months; remittances and e...

13 Dec 2024

...2025". The declaration said that the countries "recognised" the IPCC findings limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, deep and sustained reductions in climate heating emissions of 43 per cent...

13 Sep 2023

...2025 under the new United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) rule, which was passed on Wednesday. Based on data from audit and consulting giant Deloitte, most of these affected Asian c...

11 Mar 2024

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