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As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, activists urge the same for biomass energy

...,” Luiga said. “Yearly, we are losing about 50,000 hectares (123,500 acres, or five times the size of Manhattan). The logging intensity of our forests is currently 2 per cent per year, which is twice ...

20 Apr 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, activists urge the same for biomass energy

News / Policy & Finance

Poorest people getting world's small change to cope with climate crisis

..., the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate.

23 Sep 2019

Poorest people getting world's small change to cope with climate crisis

News / Policy & Finance

South Asian migrant workers seek justice as wage theft worsens under coronavirus

..., the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate.

15 Sep 2020

South Asian migrant workers seek justice as wage theft worsens under coronavirus

News / Carbon & Climate

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

..., such as halocarbons and nitrous oxide, with limited controls. Methane leaked from gas fields, landfill sites and coal mines. By 2019, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions had been dramatically reduced,...

19 Mar 2021

UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target

News / Carbon & Climate

World heading for 3.2C temperature rise

..., a critical year for climate action. In 2015, governments agreed to submit more ambitious NDCs by the time of the UN climate talks in November 2020, which will be held in Glasgow, UK.The UN climate a...

29 Nov 2019

World heading for 3.2C temperature rise

Opinion / Energy

Spend fossil-fuel subsidies on pandemic relief and the poor

..., usually by fixing the price paid at the pump. Under this policy, when oil prices rise, the government’s subsidy bill also rises, but the pump price stays the same. Historically, fuel subsidies have ...

20 May 2020

Spend fossil-fuel subsidies on pandemic relief and the poor

A biomass plant in the United States. Image: Planet of the Humans

News / Energy

Planet of the Humans: Could the Michael Moore documentary hurt the energy transition?

..., demand growth for oil, gas and coal had already slowed, pre-Covid-19, to 1 per cent a year, and in nearly 40 per cent of the world, fossil demand was already falling. So during the recovery, even m...

6 May 2020

Planet of the Humans: Could the Michael Moore documentary hurt the energy transition?

News / Carbon & Climate

As fog clears on benefits of forest protection, excuses for failure wear thin

...," he said. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, ...

13 Jul 2020

As fog clears on benefits of forest protection, excuses for failure wear thin

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why the European Union's green taxonomy is risky business

...action, as illustrated by BlackRock’s recent decision to join the Climate Action 100+ coalition of investors pushing such resolutions. At the same time, however, the review noted that, “there is curre...

3 Feb 2020

Why the European Union's green taxonomy is risky business

News / Corporate Responsibility

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2019

..., Nestlé, and Mars were sourcing palm oil from plantations engaged in deforestation activities in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place in the world where tigers, orangutans, rhinos and elephan...

13 Dec 2019

Eco-Business' 10 most read stories of 2019

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Islands of climate ambition

...action. However, global inaction on climate change is threatening our way of life, development achievements, and growth prospects, and jeopardising our efforts to adapt to global warming. The existent...

19 Sep 2019

Islands of climate ambition

News / Policy & Finance

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

..., the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate.

24 Sep 2019

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous residents protest huge coal mine plan in India

...,200 acres. Of that, over 9,100 acres belong to residents, most of them indigenous. Khokon Mardi, 40, an indigenous rights activist who lives in Sagar Bandi, another of the 53 hamlets in and around th...

9 Oct 2020

Indigenous residents protest huge coal mine plan in India

News / Carbon & Climate

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

..., particles small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs. Particulate pollution causes health problems including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, low birth weight, stroke, and even diabetes, and k...

25 Feb 2020

Gasp! Air pollution in Jakarta and Hanoi is now worse than in Beijing, global study reveals

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

..., so that if we do it over and over again, [we] won’t win,” Eddy Abdurrachman, the fund’s director, said as quoted by local media. “Therefore, looking ahead we have to change our strategy, to become o...

4 Mar 2021

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

Deforestation for a palm oil plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates remain deadlocked over Paris rulebook negotiations

..., leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s global climate and energy practice and Peru’s former minister of the environment. “Outside the COP, people are taking the climate crisis seriously, taking action,...

10 Dec 2019

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates remain deadlocked over Paris rulebook negotiations

Press Releases / Refinitiv

Refinitiv announces the launch of the future of Sustainable Data Alliance

..., World Economic Forum, United Nations, IIF, ASIFMA, Tsinghua University, OMFIF, GFMA, Climate Bonds Initiative, FinTech4good, Everledger, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bank of Africa...

28 Jan 2020

Refinitiv announces the launch of the future of Sustainable Data Alliance

News / Carbon & Climate

G20 heads in the wrong direction on climate action

..., with more than US$127 billion flowing from G20 nations in 2017. Although fossil fuel subsidies declined in nine of these, including China, India, Brazil, Argentina and Indonesia, the researchers cav...

12 Nov 2019

G20 heads in the wrong direction on climate action

News / Energy

Which Chinese tech firm is leading the pack in clean energy adoption?

..., Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent, Chindata and GDS actively procured 400,000 MWh of renewable energy, which is roughly equivalent to Beijing's total power consumption over a 24-hour period, the study...

15 Jan 2020

Which Chinese tech firm is leading the pack in clean energy adoption?

News / Green Buildings

Universities worldwide are setting zero-carbon targets—are Asia's varsities stepping up?

...climate change, their use of low-carbon energy, environmental education measures and preparations to deal with the consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, Asian universities made up 29 of the top 1...

6 Aug 2019

Universities worldwide are setting zero-carbon targets—are Asia's varsities stepping up?

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