#extreme weather News
To prepare for climate-fuelled floods and heat, Bangladesh's garment factories are using new data sources, including worker input.
Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya are moving into new areas as temperatures rise, hitting efforts to combat them.
Policy & Finance
Analysis: How green are Pakistan’s political manifestoes?
The Third Pole looks at the manifestoes of Pakistan’s main political parties in the run up to national elections to see what they promise on green growth, renewables, climate adaptation and mitigation.
A survey in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, a region prone to flooding and storm surges, provides insights into climate adaptation strategies.
Food & Agriculture
Seaweed ‘could survive nuclear war, avert famine’
#extreme weather Opinion
Policy & Finance
Realising the potential of the climate loss and damage fund
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.
Carbon & Climate
1 billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring
Most informal settlements, commonly known as "slums", are located in tropical Asia and Africa, where residents have limited data and options to adapt to growing heat-related health risks.
Policy & Finance
My country needs climate finance now to face difficult years ahead
Bangladesh needs international support to protect its people from worsening climate change impacts and build out renewable energy.
Carbon & Climate
What does China want from COP28?
Tracing the trajectory of climate engagement between China and the US can give us a clearer idea of what might limit or propel the level of ambition it displays at COP. Its leadership regime increasingly sees environmental sustainability as part of its legitimacy.
Carbon & Climate
We need to stop gambling with our planet - and our well-being - now
Policy & Finance
Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity
Energy
Closing the clean tech gap
#extreme weather Podcasts
Policy & Finance
‘We do not just adopt global standards, we respond to domestic challenges’: Philippine central bank exec Lyn Javier
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 Press Releases
Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank commits record climate finance of almost US$10 billion in 2023
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
US$200 million ADB loan to help prepare climate-resilient Philippine infrastructure projects
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
