Category: Commentary
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Preserving Southeast Asian Fisheries
Serina Abdul Rahman writes in Policy Forum. As Southeast Asian countries pursue rapid economic development, many are doing irreparable damage to their environment and their most vulnerable citizens, Serina Rahman writes. Across Southeast Asia, coastal areas are facing unprecedented threats from urbanisation, coastal development, and climate change. Moreover, decisions about how…
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Reforming the WTO for a Greener Future
Wendi Wiliyanto writes in Policy Forum. To address the challenge of climate change, the World Trade Organization must become more flexible – without meaningful reform, its legitimacy will continue to wane, Wendi Wiliyanto writes. Climate change is a major hazard in the international trade system, with increasingly severe and frequent…
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Can Asia and the Pacific Get on Track to Net Zero?
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana writes in Policy Forum. In the wake of COP27, bold climate action is essential to restrict global temperature increases to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana writes. The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: the window for maintaining global warming…
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The Climate Crisis is Already Devastating Communities
Annabel Dulhunty, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, and Sukanya Banerjee write in Policy Forum So much is said and written about the difficulties the world will face in the future if it doesn’t act on climate change – but for residents of Ghoramara Island in the Bay of Bengal, that future is now,…
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