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metro station with solar panels installed in New Delhi, India

News / Energy

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

...te look at the policies that are either in place or announced in different parts of the energy sector. It takes into account long-term energy and climate targets only to the extent that they are backe...

19 Oct 2020

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

Small-scale deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon

News / Policy & Finance

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases

...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...

19 Oct 2020

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases

A farm worker manually irrigates a salad field, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Thies, Senegal.

News / Food & Agriculture

Quick fix for hunger and climate goals? More spending on small farmers

...tnership between Cornell University, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Of that money, $14 billion would need to come from d...

15 Oct 2020

Quick fix for hunger and climate goals? More spending on small farmers

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

How has the pandemic really affected air pollution?

...traffic, and the international media has reported breathily about blue skies seen in South Asian cities for the first time in a generation. But the air pollution picture is more complicated than that....

14 Oct 2020

How has the pandemic really affected air pollution?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Public faith in sustainability reports is rising globally—but more than half of people still don't trust company claims

...th growing expectations from consumers for better reporting. John Elkington, the sustainability guru who coined the term “triple bottom line”, warned earlier this month that some sustainability report...

14 Oct 2020

Public faith in sustainability reports is rising globally—but more than half of people still don't trust company claims

Nicole Han, 350.org, Asia Pacific communications manager

News / Carbon & Climate

Nicole Han moves from Vital Strategies to climate action group 350.org to lead Asia Pacific communications

...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

Nicole Han moves from Vital Strategies to climate action group 350.org to lead Asia Pacific communications

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?

Typhoon Haiyan rips through Tanauan, Leyte in the Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

Not personal enough: Why climate change is not yet a top priority

...The urgent always overtakes the important. And everything apart from climate change seems to be the urgent," he added. But with the window to cut climate-heating emissions and tame climate risks closi...

9 Oct 2020

Not personal enough: Why climate change is not yet a top priority

The family of Chai Bunthonglek, a farmer who was killed in 2015 in a community farm in Klong Sai Pattana Thailand

News / Policy & Finance

Thai farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles

...ttana as a pilot for community farming, then asked them to leave, Pratheep said. The ALRO did not respond to requests for a comment. Root cause Land rights groups in Thailand estimate that there are ...

7 Oct 2020

Thai farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles

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

solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe

News / Policy & Finance

Political 'retreat' on climate action harms all nations, says UN climate chief

...th no thought", she charged, even as they "drag their feet" on meeting pledges to tame climate threats. “ Today there is... a disconnect between those throughout the world calling for more urgent act...

6 Oct 2020

Political 'retreat' on climate action harms all nations, says UN climate chief

News / Energy

Kepco and Samsung C&T to move ahead with proposed coal power plant in Vietnam

...th protests held at the electronics giant's stores in the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. Campaigners have pointed out that Samsung’s involvement in the vent...

6 Oct 2020

Kepco and Samsung C&T to move ahead with proposed coal power plant in Vietnam

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

Vegetables and fruits, including manioc and sweet potatoes, are displayed in a grocery store

News / Food & Agriculture

Silver lining in the health crisis? Less food waste

...t want to go out as much, and things they found in their kitchen that normally they would throw away… now they were interested in doing research to find out if it was still okay to eat," the Washingto...

1 Oct 2020

Silver lining in the health crisis? Less food waste

News / Food & Agriculture

With water scarce, Pakistan helps farmers grow more with less

...tres to about 1,300 cubic metres, according to a 2017 report by the United Nations Development Programme. That was the result of rapid population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and water-inte...

1 Oct 2020

With water scarce, Pakistan helps farmers grow more with less

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?

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

palm oil fruit bunch at a factory in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia

News / Corporate Responsibility

Can global brands avoid 'greenwash' with new forest-saving plan?

...that wanted to make fast progress would lead, with others able to join later. "I'm not even saying it's revolutionary - rather the contrary - it's just an evolution of the way we are doing things, try...

29 Sep 2020

Can global brands avoid 'greenwash' with new forest-saving plan?

News / Policy & Finance

'Historic' labour law raises fear Indian workers will pay price

24 Sep 2020

'Historic' labour law raises fear Indian workers will pay price

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?

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