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10. Reduced inequalities

10. Reduced inequalities

The international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty. The most vulnerable nations – the least developed countries, the landlocked developing countries and the small island developing states – continue to make inroads into poverty reduction. However, inequality still persists and large disparities remain in access to health and education services and other assets. To reduce inequality, policies should be universal in principle paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Read our stories to learn more about SDG Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Berita

Workers_Rights_Bangladesh
To prepare for climate-fuelled floods and heat, Bangladesh's garment factories are using new data sources, including worker input.
Coworking_Space_India
A Singapore government-backed project to build a large language model inclusive of Southeast Asian data has drawn fans and critics.
Welder_Steel_Inudtsyr_China
Energy transition expert Kou Jingna explores the low-carbon marathon being run in China’s steelmaking powerhouse, Shanxi province.
Worker_Israel_Recruit_India
Thousands are applying for jobs in Israel, where building sites have been short of workers since the start of the Hamas conflict.
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Pendapat

Shanghai interchange
Many more businesses will soon be obligated to disclose their climate-changing emissions, which could drive action to reduce them.
Loss_and_Damage_Flood_Indonesia
In today’s fragmented world, the Loss and Damage Fund could easily be derailed. But it is in our common interest to assist the most climate-vulnerable countries with recovery and reconstruction.
Solar_Worker_Installation_Philippines
Workers worldwide will need the expertise and resources to drive the fossil fuel-free agenda forward.
Women_Farmers_Market_Indonesia
What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia's agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?
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Video

'Wasted' documentary
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.
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Video footage appears to show protestors, who were demonstrating against mining operations, being dragged away by police near Ipilan Nickel Mine in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. Mining insiders are calling for maximum tolerance in similar standoffs.
Mindoro oil spill_fisherfolk clean up
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.
Residents fight police
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.
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Audio

Manila, Philippines
Studio EB If a real estate development can reduce energy and water consumption – and emit fewer carbon emissions – it is built to last, Oliver Chan tells the Eco-Business podcast. The key, however, is to first educate future homeowners and businesses that going green does not mean breaking the bank.
Cantilan Bank aftermath of Rai_EB podcast logo
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.
"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 podcast gender energy
In a region where large hydro projects and expanding biofuel plantations coincide with an upcoming coal phaseout, a laissez-faire approach could worsen existing inequalities and mar the success of a clean energy buildout.
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