Islamic Finance Can Be a Powerful Tool to Boost Climate Action
Addressing the climate emergency will require all the funding possible from as many diverse sources as possible. Islamic climate finance instruments could help in Asia and in many other parts of the world.
How Supporting Women Farmers Can Ease Asia’s Food Security Crisis
Women need to be engaged in designing, implementing, and monitoring climate-smart agriculture. With a food crisis and climate change affecting millions of people in Asia and the Pacific, equipping female farmers with technology, support, and resources, is a win for women and food security overall.
The Rise of Climate Fintech
Climate fintech solutions can help manage risks, secure efficiency gains, and inform choices in the battle against climate change.
How Behavioral Science Can Help Fight Climate Change
Behavioral insights offer effective tools to come up with innovative solutions to address people’s behavior and biases regarding climate change.
Four Ways To Fund Viet Nam’s COP26 Climate Commitments
Viet Nam is committing to ambitious goals to address climate change. Here’s how to fund them.
How Providing Sustainable Finance to More Women Helps Fight Climate Change
Women's contributions to climate action are severely limited by systems that downplay women's roles, capacity, and potential. Greater access to sustainable and gender-equitable green finance will help women be frontrunners in global efforts to address climate change.
Confronting Asia’s Triple Threat: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Food Insecurity
Without progress on climate and biodiversity, there will be no progress on food security. To address these interlinked challenges, we need an unprecedented level of multilateral, private, and public sector cooperation.
How Do We Stop These Devastating Floods? Start With These Six Steps
The devastating floods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region have shown the urgency of actions needed to protect vulnerable communities from the impact of climate change.
Here’s How Better Crop Insurance Can Help Asia’s Farmers Survive Climate Change
‘Parametric’ insurance could offer farmers quicker relief when they lose their crops to floods, storms and other climate-driven calamities.
Transition Finance is Critical to Address Climate Change
Transition finance, which provides financing to high carbon-emitting industries, should be part of a broad range of innovative financing options to address climate change.