#extreme weather 新闻
Asia Pacific nations face mounting climate costs as the world crosses the 1.5°C threshold, with extreme weather driving inflation, disaster risks and a US$815 billion annual financing gap for adaptation and resilience.
The year is likely to see cooperation between China and the European Union become more important, but both sides will have to carefully navigate developments that could lead to more trade friction. Transition finance is expected to grow.
Back-to-back disasters in the Philippines leave medics and volunteers deflated and demoralised.
Indigenous communities in the Philippines’ Mount Kalatungan protected area have since 2015 carried out a tree-planting campaign to restore native vegetation lost to decades of commercial logging and agriculture.
#extreme weather 观点
The Federal Reserve is perhaps the most significant independent economic actor in the US. Yet it has surrendered to Trump – the Fed Board withdrew from a global network that brought together central banks to improve climate risk management.
The US federal policy pendulum is swinging away from facts, reason and basic human decency with Trump re-entering the White House. But it will swing back if city mayors and local leaders insist on effective climate governance.
Youth activists demand a global ban on solar geoengineering, warning it’s a dangerous distraction from real climate solutions and a generational betrayal.
Rising prices and climate change are closely linked. Rather than being treated solely as an environmental issue, climate change must be central to economic policy.
#extreme weather 视频
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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.
#extreme weather 播客
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.
#extreme weather 新闻发布稿
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change could reduce GDP in developing Asia and the Pacific by 17% by 2070
United Nations Environment Programme
To counter climate change, Colombian cities weave nature back into their urban fabric
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Indonesia sets path for climate-friendly cooling with National Cooling Action Plan
International Labour Organization
More workers than ever are losing the fight against heat stress
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Surge to 2030: Philippines to host Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
