Tired of waiting for donor dollars for climate and nature protection to trickle down, Indigenous rights groups are creating new funds to do things differently
China and India are on track to triple renewable capacity this decade, but were put off by anti-coal language and cost concerns
Non-binary and trans people have been detained and deported at Dubai airport and being gay is effectively criminalised in the UAE
Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits
Experts said that China didn’t want to shut down coal mines and was likely under-counting its coal mine methane emissions
Even though we now have the Paris agreement, cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters, US and China, is still crucial
After its pleas for grants not loans fell mostly on deaf ears, Indonesia has watered down its plans to shut coal power plants early
The G7 has offered to mobilise $15.5 billion to get Vietnam from coal to clean energy but just 2% of this is grants
A finance tool to shut down Asian coal plants up to a decade early will swing into action “soon”, says Asian Development Bank climate envoy
Five environmentalists have been jailed in the last two years, while the government works on a clean energy partnership with rich nations
Japan is trying to push fossil fuel-based technologies on the region like gas, fossil hydrogen, carbon capture and so-called clean coal
Projects in India linked to Enking, the self-proclaimed world’s largest carbon credits producer, have vastly overestimated climate benefits
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Data from the Indonesian government suggests efforts to restore peatlands, a key part of the country’s climate strategy, do not match government claims.
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China is not obligated to provide financial aid but has pledged to “make available’ $3.1bn to other developing countries
Green funds have been spent cutting down trees for biomass to make electricity, decimating the traditional food sources of indigenous people
Indonesian pulp and paper giants are trying to rehabilitate themselves with the FSC despite continued accusations of deforestation in their supply chains
Nguy Thi Khanh has been released a few months early from prison but two of her fellow campaigners remain in jail on tax evasion charges
Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies