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Climate Change

  • ASPI President Kevin Rudd and "Walk the Talk" host Shekhar Gupta in an NDTV interview published on February 13, 2015.

    Video: Kevin Rudd on India's 'Encouraging' Stance on Climate Change

    In Delhi, the Asia Society Policy Institute President said, “What is very encouraging … is the language which we saw emerge from Prime Minister Modi, during President Obama’s visit, about India wanting to see a global agreement in Paris.”
  • A screen grab from Jia Zhangke's recent short film 'Smog Journeys.'

    China's Pollution, Visualized

    Jia Zhangke, others document China's environmental woes.
  • China's climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua and CA Governor Jerry Brown (Courtesy of Brad Adams)
    Center on U.S.–China Relations

    A Vital Partnership: California and China Collaborating on Clean Energy and Combating Climate Change

    A New Asia Society Report
  • Henry Paulson (L) and Kevin Rudd (R) at Asia Society’s event in New York on September 11, 2014. (Elsa Ruiz/Asia Society)

    Parsing China's Plan for Reform

    Kevin Rudd sees "new center of gravity" on climate change.
  • Northern California

    Experts Discuss Cities at Risk

    Resiliency isn’t just about bouncing back; it’s about planning cities better in the first place
  • Photographs of Beijing on a blue-sky day (June 19, 2009) and a smoggy day (June 22, 2009). (Lin Yang and John Billingsley/Asia Society)

    Why the US and China Should Focus on Air Pollution to Tackle Climate Change

    The U.S. and China can mitigate climate change and create economic and social benefits by collaborating to reduce air pollution, writes environmental economist Junjie Zhang.
  • Niccolo Piazza's new documentary looks at climate change and water management in northern Pakistan's Karakoram Range. Above: Attabad Lake, Hunza Valley. (Niccolo Piazza)

    Interview: Filmmaker Focuses on Water and Warming in Northern Pakistan

    Documentarian focuses on mountain communities of Gilgit–Baltistan and their symbiotic relationship with their environment.
  • NASA satellites see Typhoon Bopha heading toward the Philippines. (NASA Goddard Photo and Video/Flickr)

    Tracking Typhoon Bopha

    Strongest storm of 2012 buffets Philippines.
  • Giovanni Giommi's "Bad Weather" explores the seaside brothel community of Banishanta Island in Bangladesh as it copes with the devastating effects of climate change.

    Interview: Filmmaker Explores Effects of Climate Change on Seaside Brothel Village

    New documentary depicts the women of Bangladesh's Banishanta Island as they navigate their lives in the face of climate change.
  • Aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard, October 30, 2012. (DVIDSHUB/Flickr)

    Sandy, Cyclones, and Climate Policy

    Big storms have spurred change in Asia, and could in the U.S. as well.
  • Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, addresses Asia Society New York at the launch of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor on September 26, 2012.

    The Front Lines of Climate Change

    Bangladesh PM stresses need for urgency.
  • Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina at the launch of a new report on climate change in New York on Sept. 26, 2012.
    New York

    Climate Change: The Impact on Developing Countries

    Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh raises a call to the international community regarding climate change.
  • A Bangladeshi woman stands outside her house in Gabura, in southern Bangladesh, after Cyclone Aila devastated the area on May 26, 2009. Low-lying southwest Bangladesh is on the frontline of the battle to adapt to climate change. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

    Expert: The Limits of Adaptation

    Nobody on earth can avoid climate change.
  • Simran Sethi at TEDxCibeles.

    Engaging the World on Climate Change

    Climate change has been reduced to a punch line, but it doesn't have to be that way, says Simran Sethi.
  • Drought and the practice of storing water at the Three Gorges Dam have reduced the surface size of Poyang Lake from about 3,500 km to 200 km.

    Video: The Tale of Lake Poyang

    China's largest freshwater lake is drying up.
  • David Breashears: Ice Gallery, Main Rongbuk Glacier, Mount Everest, 2011. (GlacierWorks)

    'Coal+Ice' Comes to the Himalayas

    David Breashears stages photo exhibit 17,723 ft. above sea level.
  • Photo of the Day: Kiribati Island on the Verge of Disappearance

    A view of mangrove shoots planted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others on Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, on September 4, 2011.
  • Migrant construction workers outside of Bangkok, Thailand. (Flickr/Ronn aka "Blue" Aldaman)

    Climate Change, Maids and Refugees: Asian Migration in 2011

    In the Asia-Pacific region, large-scale migration continues to be an upwardly trending phenomenon and, sadly, migrant vulnerability and exploitation is glaringly apparent, writes Andrew Billo.
  • The Williamsburg Conference, Singapore, May 2011.

    The Williamsburg Conference 2011

    May 13-15, 2011
    Singapore
  • India

    Chandran Nair: 'Consume More!... and Reduce Emissions, Too'

    'Consumptionomics' author Chandran Nair explains Asia's role in the climate change debate.

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