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Two major Japanese banks drop new coal, but loopholes in policies spark concern

...to see the announcement by Mizuho that it will not provide financing or investment that will be used for the construction of new coal-fired power plants. Mizuho’s move to tighten its climate policy is...

17 Apr 2020

Two major Japanese banks drop new coal, but loopholes in policies spark concern

News / Policy & Finance

Europe's new jobless urged to pick fruit amid huge farm labour shortage

...ts that must be picked at the right time, otherwise they rot in the field. These operations cannot be postponed," Coldiretti's president Ettore Prandini said. With the first fruit harvests imminent, C...

16 Apr 2020

Europe's new jobless urged to pick fruit amid huge farm labour shortage

News / Carbon & Climate

In climate change-hit Bangladesh, hospital boats keep healthcare afloat

...told to build a normal hospital in the nearest town. But I had seen the poverty in the chars and I knew that that wouldn't help them," said Khan. Today, the floating hospitals dock at the better known...

23 May 2019

In climate change-hit Bangladesh, hospital boats keep healthcare afloat

News / Manufacturing

Unilever reveals global tea suppliers in drive for slave-free sourcing

...tea estate to tea pot, and this is a great step to help us do that." Yet academics and business pressure groups have previously told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that abuses do not stop due to great...

17 Sep 2019

Unilever reveals global tea suppliers in drive for slave-free sourcing

News / Cities

Charities forced to step in as Hong Kong's poor struggle for homes

...the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, and climate change. Visit http://new...

10 Sep 2019

Charities forced to step in as Hong Kong's poor struggle for homes

Juice Media parody ad mocking government inaction on climate change

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Australian media outlet launches 'honest government ad' on climate change

...the video. Other than calling attention to the ecological breakdown that will lead major ecosystems to their tipping point, the ad also called out the flippant attitude of the Australian government to...

12 Sep 2019

Australian media outlet launches 'honest government ad' on climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

12 years to save the world? No, the real climate deadline is the end of 2020

...tus, Potsdam Climate Institute The Prince of Wales, the United Kingdom's second in line to the throne, said at a reception for Commonwealth Foreign Ministers earlier this month, that the next 18 mont...

30 Jul 2019

12 years to save the world? No, the real climate deadline is the end of 2020

News / Energy

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

...than 2 per cent of total electricity generation in the country. But the renewables target enshrined in South Korea’s latest energy plan—to ramp up their share to 30 to 35 per cent by 2040—is not ambit...

1 Apr 2020

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

News / Carbon & Climate

Decarbonisation is flawed, says development expert on why business won't save the world

...th. In his latest book, The Sustainable State, he writes that a strong, sustainable state "will need to treat resource management as the centre of economic planning, rather than as an afterthought to ...

21 Jan 2019

Decarbonisation is flawed, says development expert on why business won't save the world

News / Cities

Can bringing young and old under one roof solve the world's housing crisis?

...t, said the non-profit received about half its funding from state. "I think smart governments look at this as a very cost-effective way to save money but they don't want to do it alone." Inter-generat...

22 Mar 2019

Can bringing young and old under one roof solve the world's housing crisis?

News / Cities

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

...t of imminent threats for the majority of cities they had worked with, before this year. "Often our plans and strategies respond to the shock that is in our most recent memory, and that's what motivat...

19 May 2020

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Environment and Water resources, announcing 2019 as Year Towards Zero Waste on 12 January

Opinion / Waste

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

...t campaign could be just the ticket—to teach residents what they can and cannot recycle. However, It was suggested by a speaker at a waste management event last week that the government would not intr...

29 Jan 2019

Can Singapore really be a zero waste nation?

News / Transport

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

...the mountains but sometimes struggle to reach markets. "Lack of transpotation was a major constraint in marketing them," she said. Cable systems "have aided in taking these products to the market with...

4 Apr 2019

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

News / Carbon & Climate

Children suffering eco-anxiety over climate change, say psychologists

...t of the time adults want to protect children from frightening things, but if we protect them too much then we are actually lying to them," she said. But adults should not overwhelm children with too ...

20 Sep 2019

Children suffering eco-anxiety over climate change, say psychologists

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Violence against women is blocking development

...t. It didn’t matter that the woman had been raped and subsequently obstructed by the local clinic staff from receiving an abortion — care guaranteed by the CTOP act. It didn’t matter that her constitu...

25 Feb 2020

Violence against women is blocking development

News / Energy

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

...ts to Vietnam’s power master plan. The law was meant to spur the government to set forth a strategic vision for Vietnam’s energy production, distribution and consumption that better reflects current c...

23 Mar 2020

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

...tate, Leal realized that the informal “bridges” of this locally built transportation network must be impacting Amazonian waterways. So she decided to study that, too. “We found that makeshift road cro...

27 Aug 2019

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

News / Cities

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

...ttempt to integrate them into the master plan will need to protect them from land grabs, and be a careful, informed process that looks at class stratification and historical marginalisation," she told...

12 May 2020

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

News / Policy & Finance

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

...tragedy that Filipinos won’t be able to watch them anymore if we don’t get our franchise back.” In complying with the government’s order, the broadcaster said in a statement that it “trusts that the g...

11 May 2020

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

News / Cities

From food to tech, coronavirus to spur urban planning rethink

...titute of Development Studies Catalysts This would not be the first time that an epidemic has led to changes in city planning, research shows. The cholera outbreaks of the 1830s led to better sanita...

20 Mar 2020

From food to tech, coronavirus to spur urban planning rethink

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