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El Niño Set to Worsen Food Shortages and Drive Prices Higher
A strengthening El Niño is drying fields across South and Southeast Asia. Because the region grows and eats most of the world's rice, a shortfall here does not stay here.
Riau Advances Province-Wide Forest Carbon Plan Under ART-TREES
A national endorsement advances the province’s ART-TREES pathway, but validation, registration and benefit-sharing rules still lie ahead.
Twenty Olympic Pools a Day: Malaysia's AI Boom Runs Into Johor's Water Table
Data centers now draw nearly 200 times more water than ordinary industrial users. Johor told the biggest ones to wait 18 months, citing drought conditions.
In the Pipeline
Coverage planned for coming weeks: Asia-Pacific's exposure to sea-level rise and monsoon variability, the region's coal-to-renewables transition and its financing gap, and how climate disaster response intersects with the development-finance stories already running on the Business desk.