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India's women farm workers suffer job losses from climate shocks

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit https://www.context...

19 Oct 2022

India's women farm workers suffer job losses from climate shocks

News / Cities

Asia's mountain forests dwindling at ‘alarming rate,' shows study

...t loss also varied by region, with tropical mountain forests being lost almost three times faster than temperate forests and more than eight times faster than boreal forests. The study found that the ...

14 Apr 2023

Asia's mountain forests dwindling at ‘alarming rate,' shows study

News / Cities

Record emigration casts long shadow over Hong Kong’s sustainability community

...tinational energy firm CLP, said it was too early to tell how severe the talent shortage just weeks after the territory removed all Covid-19 restrictions, on 1 March. He noted that on a recent trip to...

26 Apr 2023

Record emigration casts long shadow over Hong Kong’s sustainability community

News / Food & Agriculture

Lives destroyed as armyworms invade Philippine 'onion capital'

...t practices to promote agroecology, to create an agricultural system more in tune with nature. "It's not the farmers' fault if they're buried in debt. The problem is rooted in the policies of the stat...

30 Sep 2022

Lives destroyed as armyworms invade Philippine 'onion capital'

News / Food & Agriculture

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

...ter. The Tigris and the Euphrates are the twin spines running through Iraq, their tributaries moving water inland to the once lush plains that birthed some of humanity's earliest empires. But their wa...

25 Nov 2022

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

News / Cities

Digital nomad hotspots grapple with housing squeeze

...tatus for digital nomads that provides them with opportunities to invest, create startups, and pay taxes in Mexico. Many other tourist hotspots have been quick to embrace the nomads, seeing the trend ...

28 Sep 2022

Digital nomad hotspots grapple with housing squeeze

Freddie Hedegaard, Green School student and founder of Dungbeetle

News / Carbon & Climate

Student 'wages war on greenwashing' with startup that verifies carbon projects

...t and issues it with an NFT, then sells the NFT to companies looking to offset their carbon footprint. Money from that sale goes to the project owner, and Dungbeetle takes a 5 per cent cut from the sa...

6 Mar 2023

Student 'wages war on greenwashing' with startup that verifies carbon projects

Greenwashing has become a growing problem

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

'We have reached peak greenwashing': what to do about the sustainability marketing tsunami?

...terms of the climate science. And without wanting to go too much into it, we're at a pretty scary time. There's so many words said about it, it's almost hard to for it to cut through. But I think the ...

17 Jun 2022

'We have reached peak greenwashing': what to do about the sustainability marketing tsunami?

News / Carbon & Climate

Reducing the carbon footprint of online retail

...ture that allowed delivery representatives to report the status of returned cartons and other accessories during each delivery. This enhancement enables the transport team to track the return rate of ...

23 Nov 2022

Reducing the carbon footprint of online retail

The Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

News / Energy

Indonesia must 'change the narrative' from power sector to consumers as nation decarbonises

...tate electricity company]. Industry needs to step up too,” Yusrizki said. Yusrizki was speaking at the "Cut the Tosh" Collaboration Summit, an event billed as part of a movement to promote "real actio...

19 Oct 2022

Indonesia must 'change the narrative' from power sector to consumers as nation decarbonises

An independent palm oil farmer in Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian palm oil smallholders union welcomes EU deforestation law, but wants help to comply

...to satisfy the EU market with 'compliant' palm oil products. But while the regulation might exclude deforestation from the EU, it will do nothing to support an end to deforestation through improved su...

25 Jan 2023

Indonesian palm oil smallholders union welcomes EU deforestation law, but wants help to comply

News / Policy & Finance

New EU anti-deforestation law falls short, indigenous leaders say

...ting the import into the bloc of key commodities linked to deforestation is insufficient to protect forests and will do little to bolster indigenous rights. The legislation, agreed upon last week, wil...

16 Dec 2022

New EU anti-deforestation law falls short, indigenous leaders say

News / Policy & Finance

How is climate change limiting access to insurance?

...That has forced many homeowners to pursue costly alternative coverage through state-backed insurers of last resort. "This is starting to happen in various parts of the country, whether it's from flood...

5 Jun 2023

How is climate change limiting access to insurance?

News / Energy

‘Not economically feasible’: Exxon Asia exec says carbon capture ventures in Southeast Asia not meant for oil recovery

...to expand its oil and gas production by 3 per cent a year through to 2027, setting it apart from its European rivals that say they are holding output steady or letting it decline. In the United State...

7 Nov 2023

‘Not economically feasible’: Exxon Asia exec says carbon capture ventures in Southeast Asia not meant for oil recovery

Press Releases / Schneider Electric

How we reach zero-carbon energy independence

...th. Testing the theory The first test: Do these solutions exist at scale? Unlike other cleantech innovations, the answer to that is a clear yes — these are all proven technologies that are wid...

19 Oct 2022

How we reach zero-carbon energy independence

News / Policy & Finance

India health data faces rising risk of breaches, cyberattacks

...tor at Internet Freedom Foundation, a non-profit. It is also not clear if a long-delayed data protection bill that is expected to be passed soon, will protect sensitive health data, he told Context. "...

26 Jul 2023

India health data faces rising risk of breaches, cyberattacks

News / Policy & Finance

'Living in the stone age': offline for 18 months in Indian Kashmir

...te the fact that there is little empirical evidence to suggest they lead to better law and order outcomes." India's interior ministry did not respond to requests for comment. Laws flouted Internet shu...

30 Sep 2022

'Living in the stone age': offline for 18 months in Indian Kashmir

News / Carbon & Climate

Fuelling decarbonisation with nanotechnology: From academia to commerce

...tself was a two-year struggle, but it was that challenge that first put her in contact with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, where she later became a postdoctoral ...

10 May 2023

Fuelling decarbonisation with nanotechnology: From academia to commerce

News / Corporate Responsibility

The silent S in ESG: Why did it take a pandemic to wake up corporates to mental health?

...ture. Another type enables people to talk about their mental health if they want, and not to if they don't want to. What are some of things companies can do to promote better mental health at work? Em...

12 Apr 2022

The silent S in ESG: Why did it take a pandemic to wake up corporates to mental health?

News / Policy & Finance

India's women gig workers organise with WhatsApp, secret meetings

...took to the streets in July in about half a dozen Indian cities to protest unfair response and rating requirements that led to their accounts being blocked. It was the first nationwide labour action b...

12 Sep 2023

India's women gig workers organise with WhatsApp, secret meetings

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