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News / Food & Agriculture

Back to the land: Thai forest draws young, green farmers

Like many locals, Matthana Abhaimoon left rural Thailand to study in the city. Unlike most, she chose to come back — and fight for her right to farm in the forest as her forefathers had done. After a ...

1 Nov 2021

Back to the land: Thai forest draws young, green farmers

Press Releases / Reuters Events

Reuters launches Reuters IMPACT: An agenda-setting summit to mobilise global leaders on climate action

Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, announces agenda-setting leadership forum, bringing together world leaders, big business, and forward-thinking pioneers to inspire, drive action ...

5 Aug 2021

Reuters launches Reuters IMPACT: An agenda-setting summit to mobilise global leaders on climate action

News / Waste

Roof of the world is home to microplastic fibres

Scientists have set a new record for the identification of microplastic fibres − an altitude record. They have found them at 8,440 metres high in the Himalayas, almost at the summit of Mt Everest. It ...

30 Nov 2020

Roof of the world is home to microplastic fibres

Opinion / Policy & Finance

ESG investing today is somewhere between a joke and a scam. We need to act, fast

...Carbon Tracker, a thinktank, found that 78 per cent of mutual fund providers offered ESG investments but none specifically excluded deforestation risk. Not a single one actively priced climate risk ei...

4 Apr 2021

ESG investing today is somewhere between a joke and a scam. We need to act, fast

News / Energy

Children of India's burning coalfields dream of a fire-free future

Video blogger Lalji Kurmi is waiting to go viral. It's an unusual dream for a resident of India's oldest coalfield, Jharia, where fires rage underground, bare trees stand guard morosely around mines ...

13 Dec 2022

Children of India's burning coalfields dream of a fire-free future

News / Policy & Finance

New Zealand PM Ardern urged to apply crisis skills to climate change

...carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050. Earlier this month, Ardern said her government would phase out coal-fired boilers, replacing them with electric ones, and reduce carbon emissions from public buse...

23 Oct 2020

New Zealand PM Ardern urged to apply crisis skills to climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

...carbon emissions because peatlands—wetlands made up of organic decomposing matter—are rich stores of carbon. They cover about 3 per cent of the world’s land surface but store an estimated 25 per cent ...

10 Jun 2020

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The Arctic on the frontlines

...carbon dioxide and set a new pollution record for the region. With the heat turned up, the Arctic landscape has been changing fast. For the first time since records began, sea ice in the Arctic’s Eura...

2 Feb 2021

The Arctic on the frontlines

News / Cities

India’s rural migrants face climate hazards in the cities

India has seen millions of people fleeing failing agriculture to megacities that are poorly equipped to handle the influx amid increased threats from climate hazards particularly floods and heat waves...

3 Aug 2021

India’s rural migrants face climate hazards in the cities

Philippine National Oil Company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub project in Batangas

News / Energy

'Crisis in the making': new report throws doubt on feasibility of Asia's gas projects

If the future plays out as predicted, Vietnam could soon be facing a power shortfall that is as big as its total electricity supply today, from its proposed gas projects. In Myanmar, where there has b...

21 Dec 2021

'Crisis in the making': new report throws doubt on feasibility of Asia's gas projects

News / Carbon & Climate

A day of superlatives for climate advocates and big oil

...carbon pollution by 45 per cent by the end of 2030 compared to 2019 levels to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The landmark decision held that Shell’s 2050 net-zero goal was too vague and thus f...

28 May 2021

A day of superlatives for climate advocates and big oil

News / Carbon & Climate

Amid the pandemic, how can businesses not lose sight of climate change?

...carbon power, move towards zero-emissions transportation, and decarbonise heating and cooling. Implementing internal carbon pricing can help mitigate transition risks and improve decision making aroun...

8 Jun 2020

Amid the pandemic, how can businesses not lose sight of climate change?

Meat alternatives for sale. Are they healthier than eating the real thing?

News / Food & Agriculture

How healthy is plant-based protein? Singapore study seeks answers for $10 billion fake meat industry

Mock meat is all the rage as vegetarianism grows in popularity, but just how healthy are alternative proteins? People are switching to plant-based diets on the understanding that meat substitutes such...

27 May 2021

How healthy is plant-based protein? Singapore study seeks answers for $10 billion fake meat industry

News / Policy & Finance

China pushes new global biodiversity fund to help secure nature accord

China and African nations are pushing for the establishment of a multi-billion-dollar "global biodiversity fund" to help developing countries meet goals agreed in a new pact being negotiated to protec...

31 Aug 2021

China pushes new global biodiversity fund to help secure nature accord

News / Energy

‘A huge mistake’: alarm bells ring as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

...carbonise their energy and transportation systems,” while supporting Nauru’s own economy against the increasing threat of climate change, to which the island nation is particularly vulnerable. Pro-min...

12 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: alarm bells ring as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

News / Policy & Finance

People who changed our world in 2020

...carbon by 2050, but with the climate emergency declaration on 2 December, Ardern pledged that the public sector would achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. Tsai Ing-Wen and Audrey Tang Taiwan was also ex...

17 Dec 2020

People who changed our world in 2020

rescue mission in northeast india floods

News / Carbon & Climate

Local volunteers to the rescue as fiercer floods ravage northeast India

Giridhar Pegu shuddered as he remembered the day in July last year when raging flood-waters trapped him, alone, in his home in northeast India. More than a day of heavy, non-stop rain had caused the B...

22 Nov 2021

Local volunteers to the rescue as fiercer floods ravage northeast India

Opinion / Energy

To improve lives, rural electrification efforts must respond to local aspirations

...carbonising energy supply must go beyond the relatively narrow boundaries of supply-side innovation and the delivery of clean energy solutions. To decarbonise and realise social development objectives...

30 Aug 2021

To improve lives, rural electrification efforts must respond to local aspirations

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Sustainability leaders unveiled at the Eco-Business A List 2021 Awards

Singapore, 16 December 2021 – From mobilising community members in the Philippines to planting a million trees, to launching solar-powered innovations in India, to scaling up lab-grown seafood i...

16 Dec 2021

Sustainability leaders unveiled at the Eco-Business A List 2021 Awards

Sophie's Bionutrients' milk made from microalgae

News / Food & Agriculture

In the race for planet-friendly milk, Singapore startup substitutes dairy with algae

In the scramble for a healthy alternative to cow's milk that doesn't cost the earth, a Singapore startup has developed a new type of dairy substitute made from microalgae. A claimed world-first, the a...

6 May 2021

In the race for planet-friendly milk, Singapore startup substitutes dairy with algae

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