Eco-Business

This year, readers paid attention to how climate featured on critical electoral campaigns that saw leadership change hands. Cebu and Bali, both popular tourist destinations, featured on the top story list, but for very different reasons.

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Most Southeast Asian nations missed the COP16 deadline to submit updated biodiversity pledges. Competing priorities and financing gaps have hampered nature commitments, say experts.

Secluded areas are being prepared for tourism growth despite environmental protections, prompting fears of unsustainable development.

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There has been a severe shortfall in funding for natural park management, and forest rangers are bearing the brunt of these budget cuts. This is despite the risks they face, and amid an expansion of top-down efforts to establish more government-protected areas which demand enforcement and patrol resources.

SciDev Net

By Choki Wangmo

By Elizabeth Sinclair

By Tanka Dhakal

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Countries which govern half the world's territorial oceans have yet to integrate ocean-focused solutions into their nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, due for an update by February 2025. By Ilana Seid

Bali has a unique opportunity to address plastic waste by integrating sustainable practices into the tourism experience. By Attar Hikmahtiar Ramadan, Elprida Agustina and Emenda Sembiring

India's Ladakh is seeing a form of tourism which relies on climate grief and a desire to escape toxic cities. By Padma Rigzin and Vasundhara Bhojvaid

Rising costs of living and airfares point to long-haul travel being affordable for fewer people. It also might re-shape the way we think about tourism. By Gui Lohmann

By Rhett A. Butler

By Trang Chu Minh

By Patrick L. Osewe

By Brendan Canavan

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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.

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.

Dr Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering study of chimpanzees nearly 60 years ago in Tanzania, continues her work to conserve nature in Africa by joining an expedition to protect the continent’s highest peak.

The Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay is looking to build a sustainable marine community that relies on tidal power for low carbon electricity, food security from aquaculture, and eco-tourism for their livelihood. Watch the video here.

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Can the hotels sector, traditionally resource-intensive and wasteful, reinvent itself and go green? Eco-Business asks two hospitality executives about balancing post-Covid recovery, and if luxury can be made compatible with sustainability.

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