Eco-Business Podcast

‘Regulation and measurement needed to fix methane emissions in Southeast Asia’: Experts on controlling potent climate agitant

Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.

'I want others to own sustainability too – but letting go is hard': Golden Agri CSO Anita Neville

In this episode of On the frontlines, which profiles the changemakers on the hard edge of sustainable business, Anita Neville, chief sustainability and communications officer of palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources, talks about how the job of the chief sustainability officer is changing, and the growing influence of finance over the role in the context of the palm oil industry.

'We don't want to pit both adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other': Lidy Nacpil

At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. A veteran attendee of the climate conference explains why.

Philippines must link energy and environmental issues as Asean chair

As the Philippines gears up to lead the Southeast Asian bloc next year, Departmet of Energy director Michael Sinocruz says the government will push offshore wind power to bolster cross-border renewable energy trade, while protecting marine life impacted by structures. An Asean bloc must be formed at COPs to drive such initiatives.

What to expect on climate finance and justice at COP30

Countries are gathering once again for the annual United Nation’s annual climate conference, known as COP. This year’s COP30 host, Brazil, has pledged to focus on topics that range from boosting climate finance, adopting new adaptation goals, updating national climate targets, and launching a fund to protect forests that is the first of its kind. But all this is happening against a backdrop of the United States, one of the world’s largest historical emitters, pulling out of the Paris Agreement. Can the rest of the world maintain momentum on climate action through COP, and who are experts looking to for climate action today? Eco-Business spoke to two veteran COP attendees who have spent decades on the ground supporting the work of negotiators and communicating what’s happening to the public and press: ▸Meenakshi Raman, head of programmes at Third World Network ▸Ani Dasgupta, chief executive officer at the World Resources Institute Tune in as we discuss: ▸The key climate finance issues at COP30 ▸The US’ next steps after leaving the Paris Agreement ▸How civil society can be heard at COP ▸What needs to be achieved on adaptation