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As the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance approaches at COP29, China’s stance is drawing significant attention.

Global Witness warns that mining for green energy is fuelling conflict and human rights abuses in Asia and elsewhere, urging tougher standards and protections.

Ocean issues cut across all three major UN conferences taking place at the end of 2024.

COP29 signs off on a fund to help vulnerable nations harmed by climate change, but pledges so far stand at just US$720 million.

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Given their outsized economic role, strengthening the resilience of coastal communities is not just a regional or national priority but a global imperative. 作者 Karen Sack

Water markets offer a potential solution to address water scarcity, but they must be carefully regulated to ensure equitable access, prevent monopolisation and protect ecosystems. 作者 Eduardo Araral

To encourage greater water reuse, India must prioritise infrastructure development, implement sound policies and allow private sector participation. 作者 Anshuman

Indonesia’s capital has poor water infrastructure. Existing water resources should be reused to avoid a water crisis. 作者 Eka Permanasari 和 Denis Teoman

作者 Clemens Fuest 和 Maria Waldinger

作者 Soumya Bhowmick

作者 Dr Bernard Njindan Iyke

作者 Lucky Susanto 和 Grace Wangge

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Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted. It will premiere in Singapore and screen on the sidelines of the upcoming COP28 climate summit.

Watch: Singapore researchers are trying to give banana skins and coconut husks a new lease of life in water purification kits that can be used in disaster situations. They could one day also be used in the manufacture of batteries.

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Do children ask the toughest questions? This World Oceans Day, we get renowned oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle, founder of Mission Blue, to field questions from curious kids on the mysteries of the deep.

独家 In this exclusive interview to mark Earth Day, Eco-Business speaks to Dr Sylvia Earle, oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue, who draws the link between our climate crisis and the health of our oceans.

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EB工作室 Plastic waste is flooding the planet. Instead of waiting for regulation to drive change, give value to recyclables and mobilise the people, says Plastic Bank.

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.

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

EB工作室 Dexter Huerto Jr of engineering firm Danfoss tells the Eco-Business Podcast how food supply chains have been affected by a pandemic and conflict, and how they can be fixed.

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