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News / Corporate Responsibility

Are Asian corporations ready to strike for the climate?

...tive, she said. Sensitive issues do not seem to faze a company like Netflix. The streaming giant declared in May that it would not invest in the state of Georgia in the United States if an anti-aborti...

13 Sep 2019

Are Asian corporations ready to strike for the climate?

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?

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

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

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 / 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 / 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 / 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

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

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

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 / 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 / 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

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?

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