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News / Food & Agriculture

How committed are companies to sustainable palm oil?

...t getting the requests to submit. But it is alarming that even those that have submitted are not making progress at all. That there are laggard, sleeping members who are sitting in the RSPO but aren't...

10 May 2019

How committed are companies to sustainable palm oil?

News / Waste

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

...tate started providing free schooling to students in exchange for plastic waste. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that c...

25 Jul 2019

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

News / Cities

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

...t the institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. When cities grow at the behest of developers rather than guided by policy, she said, the result is development at the periphery. That eats into ag...

1 Feb 2019

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

News / Waste

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

...t waste that went to other Southeast Asian countries persist at the same level." China abruptly banned trash imports from 2018 to cut back on heavy pollution. This left Southeast Asian countries to pi...

11 Mar 2020

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

Opinion / Water

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

...ter security. The gap between those countries able to manage drought, flooding, and dirty water and those with little capacity to do so is also widening, with the potential to deteriorate as climate c...

25 Mar 2019

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

News / Energy

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

...try said it would expand its coal sector to meet rising needs but the report said there was still time to pull back as most of the plants were just plans on paper. It said developed countries that are...

7 Nov 2019

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

News / Cities

Asian cities urged to guard cultural heritage as they modernise

...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...

21 Oct 2019

Asian cities urged to guard cultural heritage as they modernise

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during Covid-19

News / Transport

The Covid-19 has shifted everything online — including wildlife trafficking

...t partnered with wildlife monitoring networks in the coalition on ways to better equip its team of reviewers to identify violating content and to help stay up to date with the latest trends in wildlif...

2 Jun 2021

The Covid-19 has shifted everything online — including wildlife trafficking

Dr Ashley Brooks has worked on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects - to double the population of wild tigers by 2022. Image: Ashley Brooks

News / Carbon & Climate

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

...tion site visits, and conducting meetings with government officials and community groups. But that part of the job is almost impossible at the moment. Brooks is stuck at home in his native Australia (...

14 May 2020

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

A sign seen at the March for Science protest last year

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

We can't let climate communication be another missed opportunity

...t its ability to process substance. More than ever, both the messenger and the medium matter. So, are we doomed? Not yet, but we have to think creatively. Who would have thought that teenager Greta Th...

29 Jan 2020

We can't let climate communication be another missed opportunity

News / Policy & Finance

More than 11 million face eviction, displacement as India booms

...tion that kicks off Thursday. The main opposition Congress party, in its manifesto, has promised the urban poor the right to housing and "protection from arbitrary eviction". It also committed to end ...

10 Apr 2019

More than 11 million face eviction, displacement as India booms

News / Manufacturing

Thai garment factory investigated by Starbucks after illegal wages expose

...to make money to send back to their families. Most of the 26 workers told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they did not receive wage slips at work yet the MAP Foundation—a non-profit that supports Burme...

5 Sep 2019

Thai garment factory investigated by Starbucks after illegal wages expose

Viva recycled plastic water bottle from Coca-Cola

News / Waste

Are Asian brands afraid of using recycled plastic in their products?

...t it's the same content as recycled plastic, which is not harmful to health," he said, adding that recycled plastic, with the exception of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used to make plastic bottles...

13 Nov 2019

Are Asian brands afraid of using recycled plastic in their products?

Standard Chartered Bank advertisement. 'We're hear for good'

News / Policy & Finance

Standard Chartered Bank launches Asia’s first retail product to fund the Sustainable Development Goals

...the definition for what constitutes a green investment product is to be standardised through the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Activities to give retail customers comfort that the products they support w...

9 Oct 2019

Standard Chartered Bank launches Asia’s first retail product to fund the Sustainable Development Goals

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his spouse Peng Liyuan.

News / Policy & Finance

China plays down fears of debt, political risk linked to Belt and Road

...tection ... if they seek to defend their rights using the law," he said.Political commentator Pan Lu said the Belt and Road project isn't just an infrastructure project, either."This strategy was impl...

29 Apr 2019

China plays down fears of debt, political risk linked to Belt and Road

A stack of printers at e-waste recycling facility Virogreen. SMEs find it hard to recycle bulky used electronics, so they are either stored in offices or dumped. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Could this app ease Singapore's e-waste problem?

...te to be better managed have grown louder this year as Southeast Asian nations have become the preferred destination for the developed world's trash after China closed its doors to waste imports at th...

2 Apr 2019

Could this app ease Singapore's e-waste problem?

News / Water

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

...the vegetation that holds the soil together. Then, when it rains, the dirt is easily washed down into rivers and lakes, reducing their capacity to hold water. The Jeneberang river system that flows in...

11 Feb 2019

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

News / Carbon & Climate

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

...t of the 2015 Paris Agreement—has pushed cities to take matters into their own hands, mayors said at the event. "If governments don't want to step up on climate action, then they should at least get o...

23 Feb 2019

Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action, mayors say

News / Policy & Finance

Green Climate Fund expands support to more than 100 developing states

...to set its strategic direction for the next four years. "It's really important that... the focus is on getting the money to the poorest and most vulnerable. It's making sure that we don't lose sight o...

15 Nov 2019

Green Climate Fund expands support to more than 100 developing states

A coal-fired power station on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

News / Policy & Finance

What's holding sustainable finance back in Asia?

...tunities; third, there need to be easy ways for different investors to participate. We need more and differentiating investment vehicles to fit the investor’s needs. “ It still holds true that susta...

6 Mar 2020

What's holding sustainable finance back in Asia?

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