As Asia Recovers, Will Green and Social Finance Have Real Impact?
Evidence shows that green and social finance are associated with positive environmental and social outcomes and can contribute to a more sustainable world.
Asia's Air Quality Crisis: How Regional Action Can Address Air Pollution
Air pollution claims more lives annually than tobacco, with children and the elderly at severe risk.
Asia's Coastal Areas Are More Than Just Carbon Credits
The emergence of ‘blue carbon’ in the global carbon markets could help protect Southeast Asia's coastlines, but these habitats should be valued for more than their carbon.
Asian Judiciary: Emerging Leaders in Climate Change Action
Asian judiciaries are setting the global benchmark on legal climate action through their work on cases with environmental implications.
Asia’s Disaster Data Shows Need for Leaders to Scale Up Resilience at Sendai Meeting
Thousands of participants will converge in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March for the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to agree on a new global plan to make nations and communities more resilient to natural calamities.
Asia’s Eating Habits are Changing and the Environmental Impact Could be Huge
These charts illustrate the environmental impact of agriculture in Asia and the need to move toward sustainable and healthy diets that are also environmentally friendly and affordable.
Back to Blue: Let’s Value Our Oceans Again
Blue credits offer an innovative financing approach for attracting private capital to oceans health improvement projects.
Beating Malaria, Again
Malaria can be beaten. Proof of this can be found in the fact that across the Asia Pacific region, millions of people who would have died from the disease are living healthy, productive lives. Still, malaria remains a serious threat to lives and livelihoods. Endemic in 22 countries across Asia, it is contracted by an estimated 32 million people annually and kills 47,000 of them.
Blog Poll: Preserve Our Ocean to Protect Our Life
It is our collective responsibility to take care of and protect our oceans if we want to live longer, better, and healthier.
Blue Skies and Green Steppe – Developing Sustainable Tourism in Mongolia
Scaling up ecotourism in Mongolia requires a multi-sector approach that carefully balances conservation and development.