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...tion that operates globally, I can't tell you one market in the world that isn't price sensitive. It's about getting over the hump of making the first purchase, and getting more comfortable with the s...

14 Aug 2019

...threatened, he added. "But that is not the right response. The right response is to provide support for people to shift away from these activities that have no future, and move into one that can conti...

11 Sep 2020

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

...th the vast majority of companies treating the Directive and the TCFD recommendations as two separate disclosures when these matters should be integrated and connected. To coincide with the release o...

19 May 2020

Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City, Philippines

...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...

17 Apr 2020

A Pepsi model lies amid other debris. Could plastic-using brands save the circular economy? Image: Eco-Business

...t Program to call on governments to treat waste management as an essential public service. "What brought us to this conversation [about tackling plastic pollution] was outrage over the topic. That out...

2 May 2020

...to operate within the realm of planetary limits. “Our job is to translate that in ways that can be actionable for companies and cities, so that they can operationalize and set targets that ensure that...

20 Nov 2020

...tural products. The implementation of the tariff quickly spiraled into one of the most destructive trade wars of the twentieth century, deepening the Great Depression even further. The effects of the ...

11 Aug 2020

...t do you see as the most exciting investment areas in sustainability right now? Sustainable living is an investment trend that holds many opportunities. We think that the alternative protein sector is...

18 Jun 2019

...they still have to support their staff, it's very worrying," association chairman Dispanadda Diskul told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "These enterprises are helping society but are left to struggle...

14 May 2020

...t and a zoo. The site for the metro shed is a 33-hectare plot. "We're not against the metro; we all want better public transport. But this is just a shed - it can be built elsewhere without cutting so...

14 Oct 2019

...the quantity, and if they stitch thousands, they ensure themselves a decent wage," Khan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "But there are no other job options for them, so this is better th...

8 Apr 2019

...their burning habitat. “The orangutans that lived along that forest edge were pushed to the edge of the river and had very little to eat,” Vogel said. “And they started to go into starvation and had t...

27 Jan 2020

Wilmar International's sustainability team engaged in a Zoom meeting

...too. Consultants are finding that sustainability teams in governments and corporates have been redeployed to help combat the virus, so are having to be creative to justify their paychecks. It's not ju...

14 Apr 2020

...tal sustainability and better health. They are unlike the first generation of processed food that first appeared in grocery stores after the Second World War, that mostly aimed to cost as little as po...

28 Aug 2020

...ts the highest global daily caseloads, with the total surging to 5.4 million on Sunday, according to the latest official data. It is the world's second-worst affected country after the United States, ...

22 Sep 2020

Singapore-based biotech startup RWDC Industries closes US$133 million in Series B funding

...tic continues to rise to meet growing consumer interest in better materials choices. The increasing need for materials that enable greater food safety, better stewardship of the environment, and that ...

6 May 2020

...ttee of the Committee on Natural Resources in the US House, Facebook didn’t respond to requests to attend and testify. He said that requests were treated as if the government were a customer wanting t...

9 Jun 2021

...ter clout. "It's difficult. It takes time, it needs education. But you can find friends who support what you are trying to do." He is less optimistic about regulators' ability to support industry sust...

16 Jun 2019

...tricity generation type through to 2030, with a “vision” extending to 2045. With Vietnam’s power demand set to more than double in the coming decade, the plan is critical to the nation's efforts to re...

28 Jul 2020

...te chaos, put it this way: “Think of a pot of cool water on the stove. Add heat to the pot and keep adding it. The water will start to move, swirling in increasingly erratic and intensifying patterns....

5 Aug 2021

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