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Press Releases / CDL and DBS

CDL and DBS set benchmark on innovation-focused financing for sustainable development

..., SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 13: Climate Action. It complements global sustainability trends and answers the Singapore government’s call for climate action, smart cities,...

11 Sep 2019

CDL and DBS set benchmark on innovation-focused financing for sustainable development

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News / Carbon & Climate

The number with the power to halt the climate crisis

..., in current dollars, of damages that occur decades from now, and thus the benefits of preventing them. For example, at an annual discount rate of 3 percent, US$100 of climate damages in 2100 is worth...

3 Jun 2019

The number with the power to halt the climate crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit

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

5 Dec 2018

UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit

News / Waste

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

..., making better alternatives viable, and changing the culture via long range thinking, strategies and action plans,” said Ramakrishna. Having real alternatives to cheap and durable plastic packaging...

22 Jan 2020

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

..., you try different ways to cope, such as planting different crops, changing jobs, borrowing money,” said Muttarak, who was not involved in the study. “You’re probably not trying to move straight away...

9 May 2019

Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

News / Transport

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

..., 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.

4 Apr 2019

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

Models at the first ever Fashion 3R Eco Fashion Show at the launch event for EcoBank 2019

News / Lifestyle

Can haute couture be zero waste?

..., managing director, 100 Resilient Cities, Olivia Choong, founder of Green Drinks, and Laura Francois, artist and country coordinator of Fashion Revolution. Olivia Choong, founder of Green Drinks, i...

5 Mar 2019

Can haute couture be zero waste?

News / Carbon & Climate

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

...100”), although they did secure the option of parties being allowed to use GTP100 (or any other metric) in addition to GWP100 if they wanted to. Put simply, under GWP100, the climate impact of every t...

16 Dec 2019

COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

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News / Water

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

..., treats 100 per cent of its collected wastewater and reuses 78 per cent of it. About 84 per cent of all wastewater collected in Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...

19 Aug 2019

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

News / Policy & Finance

Companies must commit to workplace equality—senior business leaders

...," he said. Van 't Noordende was speaking at the launch of the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality at Davos on Tuesday. Backed by Microsoft, Mastercard, Accenture, Deutsche Bank, EY, Omnicom Group a...

23 Jan 2019

Companies must commit to workplace equality—senior business leaders

Opinion / Manufacturing

How fashion companies can collaborate to tackle their biggest source of carbon pollution

..., Espirit, Gap, Inditex, New Balance, PUMA and Target are openly identifying their Chinese suppliers on a map that visualises real-time and historical trend data on air pollution, soil contamination a...

28 Jun 2019

How fashion companies can collaborate to tackle their biggest source of carbon pollution

News / Policy & Finance

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

..., they added. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's and LGBT+ rights, ...

4 Dec 2018

World Bank ups funds to tackle 'existential threat' of climate change

60 per cent of Prudential Singapore's staff are women. A higher female ration has helped the company in two key ways: collaboration and relationship-building. Image: Prudential Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

How diversity is driving sustainability for one of Singapore’s biggest insurers

..., more equitable workplace. The work space is open plan. There are no individual offices, cubicles, reserved seat spaces, job title name plaques, and staff have no fixed working hours, and come and go...

21 Feb 2020

How diversity is driving sustainability for one of Singapore’s biggest insurers

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Conservation careers negatively affected by Covid-19 pandemic

..., US, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Madagascar, Costa Rica and Paraguay – recruitment has been suspended indefinitely in the face of uncertainty. “Before [Covid-19], we were looking to recruit part-tim...

13 Apr 2020

Conservation careers negatively affected by Covid-19 pandemic

News / Carbon & Climate

As Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, will it hasten ecosystem collapse?

..., killing about a billion native animals, including scores of iconic species like koalas, kangaroos and wallabies. During the worst months, December 2019 and January 2020, a dense, billowy haze glided...

14 May 2020

As Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, will it hasten ecosystem collapse?

News / Carbon & Climate

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

..., but this year was a little different. In the early afternoon, the Trump Administration released a major new report, the National Climate Assessment, that describes how climate change will dramatical...

5 Dec 2018

The US must act now on climate or pay heavily later

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia's coal addiction puts chokehold on its air-polluted cities

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

21 Mar 2019

Asia's coal addiction puts chokehold on its air-polluted cities

News / Carbon & Climate

8 things you need to know about the IPCC 1.5˚C report

...climate commitments by 2020, so this is an important opportunity to take bolder action. At the Global Climate Action Summit last month, leaders from states and regions, cities, businesses and civil so...

9 Oct 2018

8 things you need to know about the IPCC 1.5˚C report

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The top 1% income earners are mostly responsible for climate change, but not the 1% you are thinking of

..., which is a growing problem, but to think about who is responsible for climate change and more importantly, who is going to solve our climate challenge? Dollarstreet, explores how incomes influence h...

23 May 2019

The top 1% income earners are mostly responsible for climate change, but not the 1% you are thinking of

News / Water

India pushes for its largest ever hydropower project despite concerns

..., addressing reporters after the cabinet meeting, said the country has more than 5,000 dams, with nearly 4,700 under construction. “So, for the safety of around 10,000 dams, there has been no law. The...

30 Jul 2019

India pushes for its largest ever hydropower project despite concerns

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