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'Perfect storm' awaits farming and fisheries if world doesn't curb emissions

...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...

29 Nov 2019

'Perfect storm' awaits farming and fisheries if world doesn't curb emissions

An activist protesting against JP Morgan Chase's fossil fuel financing in the United States.

News / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

...t. But because potential emissions from the coal, oil and natural gas already in production exhaust the carbon budget for the 2°C warming limit of the Paris Agreement, any bank that supports the furth...

20 Mar 2020

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

News / Policy & Finance

'Pragmatic' Asia fast-tracks hi-tech coronavirus solutions

...t Institute think tank. "When faced with a challenge like responding to the coronavirus outbreak, there are strong incentives to overcome these constraints quickly and put new technology to the test,"...

19 Mar 2020

'Pragmatic' Asia fast-tracks hi-tech coronavirus solutions

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

...that "the longer we wait (to tackle climate change), the more painful the transition will be" because of the rapid plunge in emissions that delay would necessitate. But he said making the transition t...

16 Jan 2020

Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

News / Energy

Is South Korea on the right path to carbon neutrality?

...to the Moon administration. The resolution, although non-binding, clearly states that it will strengthen the 2030 emission target, in accordance with the 1.5C target of the Paris Agreement, by establi...

4 Dec 2020

Is South Korea on the right path to carbon neutrality?

News / Policy & Finance

Climate activists found guilty over London train protest by 'regretful' jury

...thy Eastburn, arrested protester He "made absolutely clear they couldn't take into account the motivations and reasons the defendants took the action" and that those charged must be found guilty if t...

19 Dec 2019

Climate activists found guilty over London train protest by 'regretful' jury

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News / Manufacturing

Cheap virgin plastic is being sold as recycled plastic—it's time for better recycling certification

...t want to lose contracts." Manufacturers often provide a guarantee for the recycled plastic they supply, but without third-party verification to prove that the material is as claimed. "The temptation...

28 May 2020

Cheap virgin plastic is being sold as recycled plastic—it's time for better recycling certification

Forests cleared for palm oil cultivation.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

...to support tools that stop deforestation such as HCSA given that deforestation and habitat destruction creates the conditions for pandemics such as Covid-19, as well contributing to the climate emerge...

3 Apr 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar quits High Carbon Stock Approach citing governance issues

News / Policy & Finance

Top UK worry? Climate change rises up to challenge Brexit

...to high temperatures - and 16 per cent said rising heat was significantly affecting their health. That may be the start of a new take on heat, long seen as a nice alternative to the usual wet and cool...

4 Mar 2020

Top UK worry? Climate change rises up to challenge Brexit

News / Carbon & Climate

Grub's up! Can insect pet food cut dogs' carbon pawprint?

...trient cycle that has been underutilised," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Insects have been part of the food cycle since the beginning of time, but we just haven't been tapping into it." Vet...

11 Jan 2019

Grub's up! Can insect pet food cut dogs' carbon pawprint?

News / Policy & Finance

Poor women take the strain as climate change pushes men to leave home

...tive migration in the future as the planet warms. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climat...

27 Nov 2019

Poor women take the strain as climate change pushes men to leave home

News / Transport

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

...t to get to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. “ This is a milestone, but we need to be realistic that electrification will play a role in short-haul flights, but not in the long-h...

13 Dec 2019

Long wait seen for electric planes despite historic first flight

The IKEA catalogue. Customers are starting to complain about the unsolicited mass-mailing of the paper catalogues. Image: supplied by anonymous customer

News / Waste

In the digital age, why is sustainability pioneer IKEA still mass-mailing customers printed catalogues?

...this matter to the relevant department for their further action and improvement." When he received the catalogue again in February 2020, the customer complained again, telling IKEA that the unsolicite...

29 Feb 2020

In the digital age, why is sustainability pioneer IKEA still mass-mailing customers printed catalogues?

News / Food & Agriculture

The foods that reverse climate change

...to mitigate the damage livestock farming can do to the climate. The cattle industry contributes 40 per cent of all methane emissions from food production. They’re not the biggest contributors, that ti...

29 Jan 2021

The foods that reverse climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

8 trends that will shape sustainability in 2021

...ternational Seabed Authority could greenlight ocean mining in international waters. But environmentalists have warned that mining of the deep sea could destroy entire habitats. They maintain that ther...

23 Dec 2020

8 trends that will shape sustainability in 2021

Panelists at the 2019 Asian Sustainability Reporting Summit

News / Policy & Finance

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

...t comes to sustainability reporting, is the plethora of standards they need to comply with to show stakeholders and stock markets that they are good corporate citizens. But efforts to harmonise standa...

6 Sep 2019

As businesses call for harmony in sustainability reporting, standards body bosses clash in Singapore

News / Policy & Finance

Wealth alone won't save countries from climate change

...that climate change represents a risk to Argentina's long-term growth rate, most obviously through its impact on the important agriculture sector," said the report. It linked Russia's estimated losses...

21 Nov 2019

Wealth alone won't save countries from climate change

Press Releases / Rabobank

Rabobank unveils 15 food & agriculture start-up finalists for FoodBytes! Pitch 2020

...ture startup finalists who will advance to present at the FoodBytes! Pitch 2020 virtual competition. The finalists were chosen as top innovators from the cohort of 45 startups participating ...

12 Nov 2020

Rabobank unveils 15 food & agriculture start-up finalists for FoodBytes! Pitch 2020

News / Policy & Finance

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

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