Already vulnerable Guangdong Province, accounts for 34.5% of typhoons landing on China, has to now also deal with increasingly unpredictable storm tides and escalating damage. SYSU’s Dr. Xiaohong Chen & Huiwen Bai expand
See why Dr Hiroshi Takagi from Tokyo Tech believes typhoons have an unpredictable random nature and why we need to look and other factors and re-evaluate risks
Food production is a major global challenge. A lab grown milk takes top prize in 2020 Liveability Challenge. See why & what other innovations placed from Eco-Business’ Robin Hicks
Investor interest in alternative protein is at an all-time high and with a bullish Asia region. Lever VC secured USD23 million in capital. Green Queen’s Sally Ho expands
There have been 20+ bankruptcy filings in the last 6 months between brands & retailers. Surely, being broken can trigger an extreme industry makeover suggests CWR’s Dawn McGregor
Corporate water stewardship is stalling. It is time to adopt a water handprint strategy with its positive and broader impact focus, seen already in the ICT sector, says William Sarni, Water Foundry CEO
With clear material water risks posing even more exposure to global systems, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board is working to better corporate water disclosure with a new guidance. Their Francesca Recanati expands
It is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ physical climate risks are appropriately taken into account. So, Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation’s solution are sector-specific Climate Risk Matrices as their Kathryn Bakos outlines
Flood return periods aren’t ‘returning’ on time and actually are getting worse so are they still useful? CWR’s Yuanchao Xu says they are. See why he thinks this & how they are calculated
Climate change is adding great uncertainty to traditional flood risk assessment. Should modelled data be trusted? How should govts adapt to it? Oxford scholar Natalie Chung Sum Yue shares her insights