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...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

...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

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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...tems and dams. The tiny country now has 17 reservoirs that collect the rain that falls on two-thirds of its land area. It is testing smart water meters that use wireless technology and immediately det...

10 Jun 2019

...t The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) in Bangkok. "Human health is connected to animal health, but also to the health of forests," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Strengthening the la...

11 Mar 2020

...tern city of Kolkata, Destiny Reflection took feedback from customers to diversify their product line, that included tote bags and bookmarks among the most popular products "We are being told that the...

20 Aug 2020

...ts that needs to be shut down. There’s a clear need for wildlife protection management departments to co-operate with the traditional Chinese medicine sector to eliminate potential illegal and unsusta...

26 Jun 2020

Singaporeans protest against government inaction on climate change

...ting their steaks." Another posted: "After that they head over to watch the F1 Grand Prix, the event that consumes more electricity than any other event of the year." Not all the attendees came out i...

23 Sep 2019

...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

Some of Henkel's top laundry and home care brands. Image: Henkel

...to back a strategy is not unique to sustainability, but it is particularly difficult in this field, said Bergmann, noting that for a sustainability strategy to work, it’s not only important that staff...

4 Mar 2020

...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...

6 Mar 2020

...to get their attention." The global strike came on the heels of a new UN study warning that devastating temperature rise in the Arctic may now be inevitable. It also followed a report from the UN clim...

18 Mar 2019

...ton, outreach coordinator for Extinction Rebellion Youth. "Yet they are the ones that are dying first. If that isn't the greatest injustice that there has ever been then I don't know what is." The act...

22 Apr 2019

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