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Palm oil plantation Kalimantan Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action

Mutual benefits are assured when the financial sector collaborates with palm oil stakeholders. FIs can help smallholders secure credit, while getting access to data and insights required to make sound and profitable investment decisions.
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Policy & Finance

Official development assistance must recognise countries’ vulnerabilities

Given the escalating climate crisis, multilateral lenders must urgently adopt an approach to development aid that emphasises prevention. By incorporating structural vulnerabilities into their allocation formulas, the World Bank and others can strengthen poor countries' resilience and increase fairness, efficiency, and transparency.
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Energy

Concerns about the US LNG pause in Asia are overblown

The United States' decision to pause permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities does not threaten Asia’s energy security or decarbonisation goals.
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Policy & Finance

Matchmakers for the green transition

Mobilising new climate-finance flows requires identifying less gargantuan, but no less important, green projects that are attractive to a wide range of investors, both geographically and in terms of size. Digital platforms that offer these matchmaking services will be crucial to meeting our climate commitments.

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2 February 2024

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Policy & Finance

Climate disclosure rules are expanding. Companies need to keep up

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Policy & Finance

Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund

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Policy & Finance

COP28 outcome makes green skills business-critical

30 January 2024

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Lifestyle

How the Australian Open is acing its heat policy

29 January 2024

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Food & Agriculture

Women bear the brunt of Asia's climate failures

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Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

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Lifestyle

Out of step: Why sneakers and sportswear still lag on sustainability

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Policy & Finance

Developing countries need debt relief to act on climate change

24 January 2024

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Carbon & Climate

How sea ice blew the socks off scientists

23 January 2024

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Carbon & Climate

1 billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring

17 January 2024

Suralaya coal-fired power plant

Carbon & Climate

As elections loom, Jokowi leaves a troubled legacy for Indonesia's energy transition

A voter casts his ballot for the midterm primary election in Grove City, Ohio, U.S. May 3, 2022.

Carbon & Climate

This election year, let’s talk climate

16 January 2024

Two Indonesian girls hover over a laptop in a part in Sumenep, Madura, an island north east of Java

Energy

Sustainability concerns loom over Indonesia’s data centre boom

15 January 2024

Climate impacts on energy infrastructure

Policy & Finance

Harmonising global green taxonomies cannot come soon enough

Pakistan gas power plant

Policy & Finance

Time for MDBs to stop using technical assistance to support fossil fuels

12 January 2024

Sri Lanka tea workers

Policy & Finance

Sri Lanka's debt restructuring is hurting older women

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