Eco-Business

Winner | Asian Digital Media Awards 2023

You have read 3 stories. Sign up for free to access all our stories.

Dedy Mahardika, International Finance Corporation

Mahardika joins the World Bank's private finance arm to advise the manufacturing, agribusiness and services sectors on decarbonisation solutions and investments.

Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

Inspired by Indonesia, Haneea Isaad finds that Pakistan would also benefit from early coal retirement.

Experts say research, financing and action must be scaled up to tackle the health issues caused by climate change and emissions from the health sector itself.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Jiang Mengnan

By Anders Hove

By Gabrielle See

All #multilateral development bank News →

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. By Abdoul Salam Bello, Patrick Guillaumont and Arnaud Buissé

Climate change is not some distant menace; its effects are already being felt worldwide, especially in climate-vulnerable developing economies. By Vera Songwe and Ishac Diwan

Viewing nature as infrastructure is transformative, because it forces us to think in a more systemic way. As we pursue growth and development, we must not only avoid damaging nature; we must also strengthen and enrich it through “nature-positive” investments – all while tapping its vast potential to deliver essential services. By Erik Berglöf

COP28_president_SultanalJaber_UAE_Brussels

Carbon & Climate

How to salvage COP28

The COP28 president needs to deliver his promise to bridge the Global South’s annual US$1 trillion shortfall in climate financing. He can start by endorsing a levy on windfall oil revenues on petroleum states. By Gordon Brown

By Aufar Satria and Rauf Usman

By Michael Dolan

By Gordon Brown

By Mia Mottley, Werner Hoyer

All #multilateral development bank Opinion →

All #multilateral development bank Videos →

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.

All #multilateral development bank Podcasts →