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...told an online event this week. Most community health centres still struggle to pay for electricity, he said - but that problem was solved by getting the facilities to donate public land to site the g...

6 Jul 2020

phial of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

...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...

11 Dec 2020

...tems are to unexpected threats could help drive appetite for change. "There's an opportunity here not to talk about what we have to have less of (to deal with climate change) but how we can create a m...

18 May 2020

...to proceed. "I think that is going to be a key question—is there enough baseline data? The ISA must take into account their environmental mandate. The ISA is fully entitled to reject an application fo...

30 Jun 2021

...te charity based in the United Kingdom. The report, which collated data from the top 26 countries that produce the highest aviation emissions, shows that most air travel, even within the richest of ...

9 Apr 2021

Nicole Han, 350.org, Asia Pacific communications manager

...t and has particularly devastated the most vulnerable populations. Climate science tells us that if we don't limit the warming of the Earth, the life of future generations will be similarly affected. ...

12 Oct 2020

...the amount of global electricity that is currently generated and heat equivalent to half of all energy consumption. What do we say? Prevention in the first place is better than attempting to cure, and...

22 Jan 2021

...the planet. He recently gave a TedTalk on how to create the perfect farm — a nature-positive food system. Tune in as we talk about: Is being flexible the best way to eat? Why changing diets isn't tha...

27 Oct 2020

...t and energy minister, Costa Rica About half of the world's economy is built on activities that currently hurt nature, the report noted. But shifts are necessary, Perry said, and the benefits of achi...

17 Jul 2020

Global rainforest loss 'relentless' in 2020, but SE Asia offers hope

...to cut natural forest loss by at least half by 2020 was not met. The "relentless pace" of deforestation across the tropics is "definitely something we're worried about", Weisse told the Thomson Reuter...

1 Apr 2021

...t and lobbying governments to support their local sectors are among the alliance's other aims. As part of the initiative, Duke University in the United States has created a searchable database with in...

6 May 2020

...ty bioethicist and vaccine policy expert. "The harder questions are the 'how questions.' That's when things start to get more complex." Fundraising The easiest way for the United States to contribute...

27 Apr 2021

...tre for Employment Studies at research organisation Institute for Human Development. The rural development ministry did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but officials of five states that ...

11 Sep 2020

...tions said they supported "a green revolution" and committed to stop by the end of 2021 new overseas funding for coal-fired plants that are not fitted with technology to reduce their planet-warming ca...

15 Jun 2021

People using ATM machines in Singapore. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

...their customers' money to make investments in funds linked to issues such as climate change, deforestation and human rights abuses—and they do not inform their customers that they're doing so. While s...

21 Aug 2020

Plastic awaits recycling in Bali, Indonesia. Image: Alvaro Aguilar

...t the sort of used plastic they're prepared to buy, he noted. "The companies in the market for recycled plastic are fighting over PET [polyethylene terephthalate] bottles. But the problem is that the...

30 Oct 2020

Nayong Pilipino Foundation Covid vaccine facility

...t construction has not started amid a standoff between the NPF and the taskforce. The NPF, an autonomous government corporation that sits under the department of tourism, stated on 6 May that the bui...

17 May 2021

...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...

21 Apr 2020

...than four times the target to maintain a sustainable footprint. To put this figure into context, more than 400 rain trees are required to absorb this impact on the environment. The carbon footprint c...

5 May 2020

A woman of the Dayak Iban tribe in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

...tart telling them what to do to save them. Firstly, these communities may not want to lead the same lives as you," she said. "They have their own ways of life that they are true to. We must learn to r...

12 Apr 2021

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