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Climate change set to drive more deadly heat in South Asia

...t the predicted "wet bulb temperature", which accounts for humidity and temperature and aims to more accurately reflects what people experience on a hot day. Health experts and scientists say that at ...

26 Mar 2021

Climate change set to drive more deadly heat in South Asia

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

News / Corporate Responsibility

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

...to sustainability teams. Of the reported casualties so far this year, Hilton Hotels lost its APAC head of sustainability, and IKEA parted ways with its Southeast Asia sustainability head, although the...

6 Oct 2020

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

News / Carbon & Climate

Animals on the brink: why extinctions matter

...t scientists can say with some certainty that the rate of species loss is accelerating as the climate crisis intensifies, natural habitats disappear, and the trade in animals and their parts ravages t...

1 Mar 2022

Animals on the brink: why extinctions matter

News / Carbon & Climate

Indigenous peoples urge Harvard to scrap solar geoengineering project

...t to hear from the experiment team and not to support a consultative process within Swedish civil society," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Chris Field, chair of the committee that wrote the U...

11 Jun 2021

Indigenous peoples urge Harvard to scrap solar geoengineering project

houses near a forest in Indonesia's South Sumatra province

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia's map project ignores indigenous land, risks conflicts

...the Archipelago (AMAN). "The process was meant to be participatory but we haven't been consulted at all," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that AMAN had submitted maps covering about 11...

9 Apr 2021

Indonesia's map project ignores indigenous land, risks conflicts

Myanmar Faces Third Wave of COVID-19 Infections Amid Anti-Coup Protests

News / Policy & Finance

Myanmar faced third wave of Covid-19 infections amid anti-coup protests

...taff to take the swabs, no staff to analyze the samples in the lab, no doctors to test the results,” he said. “Even if someone tested positive, there is no one in the hospital who can provide treatmen...

7 May 2021

Myanmar faced third wave of Covid-19 infections amid anti-coup protests

News / Cities

Fear grips India's vast informal workforce as vaccines run low

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

5 May 2021

Fear grips India's vast informal workforce as vaccines run low

Opinion / Energy

A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream

...t is also mulling turning on the Bataan plant, although that will take some convincing of the public. Ultimately, the country would be better off keeping the site what it currently is: a tourist attra...

12 Mar 2021

A decade on from Fukushima, it’s time for Southeast Asia to bury its nuclear dream

News / Corporate Responsibility

Mars achieves 'deforestation-free' palm oil—what about the rest?

...t achieve the "completely sustainable palm" it wanted. "Our conclusion - and that of many - is that certification is helpful but it does not guarantee deforestation-free," he told the Thomson Reuters ...

9 Oct 2020

Mars achieves 'deforestation-free' palm oil—what about the rest?

Opinion / Waste

How to build a circular economy

...t of the time and that the average power drill is used for less than 15 minutes in its entire lifetime, it's easy to see the potential for sharing platforms to cut down the use of materials. Streaming...

12 Aug 2020

How to build a circular economy

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

News / Cities

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

...tant it was for us. That made us more aware of the threats to the wetland, and more determined to protect it," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as he walked around the forest, pointing to edible...

30 Sep 2020

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

News / Energy

Hydropower push leaves Pakistani Kashmir's capital hot and bothered

...thers to visit the project site to look at potential environmental impacts of the diversion. State officials said an in-depth study on potential environmental impacts of the project has not been carri...

19 Jul 2021

Hydropower push leaves Pakistani Kashmir's capital hot and bothered

Environment and sustainability minister Grace Fu

News / Waste

Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?

...t touch in tackling an environmental concern that is particularly acute in Southeast Asia. In its most recent waste masterplan unveiled a year ago, Singapore aimed to reduce the amount of trash sent t...

21 Oct 2020

Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?

News / Corporate Responsibility

'More scattered than streamlined': Could efforts to bring clarity to sustainability reporting be muddying the waters?

...the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)—that they would work together towards a comprehensive corporate reporting system. Need for standard-setters to walk the talk Despite these initiati...

30 Sep 2020

'More scattered than streamlined': Could efforts to bring clarity to sustainability reporting be muddying the waters?

Press Releases / Retykle

Leading investors support Retykle seed capital round, funding growth and international expansion

...true believer in the second-hand market and its potential. At the end of the day, it just makes sense to protect our resources and limit waste.” About Retykle https://retykle.com/ Founded by ...

17 Mar 2021

Leading investors support Retykle seed capital round, funding growth and international expansion

News / Transport

In Pakistan city, green scheme for polluting bus owners inches along

...that my old Ford wagon plying the same route would no longer be attractive to passengers," Ahmed, 42, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He estimated that the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, ann...

5 Aug 2021

In Pakistan city, green scheme for polluting bus owners inches along

News / Energy

General Electric's coal exit is well and good. But what about existing deals?

...truction contractors behind the Vung Ang 2 project and it has not disclosed whether its coal exit will see it withdraw from the controversial venture. Over the years, the project has been repeatedly t...

22 Sep 2020

General Electric's coal exit is well and good. But what about existing deals?

News / Energy

South Korea needs faster coal phase-out to support global climate goals

...ty will still be online in 2034, with the last coal plant to shut by 2054. This is 25 years too late for South Korea to play its part in meeting the Paris Agreement's target to keep heating within 1.5...

12 May 2021

South Korea needs faster coal phase-out to support global climate goals

News / Cities

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

...ty to national authorities. “You've got the Beijing city government right next door, as it were, to the central government,” he said, adding that political momentum to improve the capital’s air qualit...

25 Jan 2022

China’s next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands

Press Releases / Normative

New initiative aims to help SMEs halve emissions before 2030

...tion about the SME Climate Hub, visit: www.smeclimatehub.org About Normative Normative is a Swedish tech-company that automates sustainability reporting to let companies focus on what counts: reduci...

2 Oct 2020

New initiative aims to help SMEs halve emissions before 2030

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