Located in the mountainous region of Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan is one of the most significant cryosphere regions outside the Polar Regions, with a glacier area of 16,933 km² and supplying water to the Indus River system (Kalair et al., 2019). Beyond mountain livelihoods, glacier instability is also directly related to Pakistan’s food security, as more than […]
Introduction Cities were planned for business, communication and culture. However, with the warming global temperature, they have turned into something new called thermal traps. During the day asphalt absorbs heat and at night releases it slowly. The sun’s energy is reflected and focused by the glass towers. Concrete retains heat for several hours following the […]
President Prabowo Subianto gathered senior journalists at his residence in Hambalang, Bogor, West Java, in early 2026. Unlike a similar gathering that took place in 2025, this time it was not only journalists who were invited to converse. Economists and other public figures also participated in the meeting. In the conversation that was broadcast the […]
Whether or not carbon pricing can be used as green industrial policy is a question of how carbon pricing is defined, and how it is used in the policy mix. In its traditional narrow sense, carbon pricing is not industrial policy. It is a market mechanism that seeks to address a negative externality by raising […]
Of recent, there has been intensified concern about the impacts of petrochemical plastics on human health, the environment, and climate change. These concerns are mainly based on the persistence of petrochemical plastics in the environment, long-term pollution, and potential endocrine disrupting effects. These can potentially harm wildlife through ingestion and entanglement, contaminating food chains with […]
How Island Quietly Disappeared Having lived in Bali and witnessing how the economy of the island is heavily dependent on tourism, I really understand how climate change can threaten the sustainability of the island, economically and culturally. For example, I used to play on the beach, where much of the coastline in the Nusa Dua […]
The Most Affected Community in the Climate Crisis On the north coast of Java, there’s a fisherman named Ahmad who always wakes up before dawn, just as his father and grandfather did before him, to read the wind direction, scan the sky, and decide whether the sea is safe enough for sailing. However, those activities […]
Denmark is known as the best-performing country in climate action and has been at the top of the Climate Change Performance Index for three years in a row, from 2022 until 2024. To be precise, Denmark formally sits in fourth place, because the index leaves the top three spots empty since no country performs well […]
Australia is an interesting country when it comes to discussing the effectiveness of climate policy. For decades, Australia has been known as one of the worst-performing industrialized countries in handling climate change issues. In 2020, the country was included in the 10 countries with the lowest Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) and was ranked 56th […]
Low Emission Zone or LEZ in short, is a strategy implemented by the government of Jakarta to reduce carbon emissions, mainly air pollution. LEZ restricts access to the most polluting motorised vehicles based on the emission level (e.g., vehicle standard by Euro) or type of vehicle (e.g., heavy-duty vehicle) into a certain area with the […]
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