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Six out of 11 cities which endured heat strongly influenced by climate change for 30 days or more from last December to February 2025 were in Asia, including in Tamil Nadu, Manila and Jakarta, according to data from nonprofit Climate Central.

As climate change ravages India's crops, world's largest government insurance scheme leaves vulnerable farmers exposed.

On the first World Glacier Day, experts urge Asia's businesses and policymakers to act this decade to slow glacier loss and ice melt, which remains “out of sight, out of mind” despite the region's extreme vulnerability to rising sea levels.

Despite being highly vulnerable to climate risk, Sri Lanka is slow to tap into climate funding due to a range of issues including inadequate data systems, institutional weaknesses and limited capacity to design and implement viable projects.

By Namdu Lhamo, Jelle J P Wouters, Binaya Pasakhala

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By Gowthami Subramaniam

By Anika Patel

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Even though the global economy depends on a stable climate and reliable ecosystem services, businesses and financial institutions are not required or incentivised to invest in nature. Central banks and supervisors could change that trajectory simply by fulfilling their financial-stability mandate. By Julie McCarthy

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. By Bertrand Badré and Thomas Crampton

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Public development banks must spearhead a systemic overhaul of global finance to ensure climate funding reaches the most vulnerable and accelerates the green transition. By Serge Ekué and Javier Díaz Fajardo

With floods, droughts and extreme weather threatening billions of people, investing in early warning systems must be a priority. By Dr Guyo M Roba

By Stuart P.M. Mackintosh

By Gernot Wagner

By Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink and Erica Njuguna

By Monica Araya and Saliem Fakir

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EB Studio 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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Andrew Buay, vice president for group corporate sustainability at Singtel, tells the EB Podcast that CSOs should not be precious about losing part of their job as the function evolves.

Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

Asia lags the world in natural catastrophe protection. Part of the problem could be counting extreme weather losses only after they happen, industry insiders tell the Eco-Business podcast.

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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