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Using 'digital Lego', communities redesign India's slums

...tenements abutting the city's biggest landfill. The municipal corporation had done little for its upkeep and it was littered with trash. Three years ago, Vaitla and her team were tasked with transform...

10 Jan 2018

Using 'digital Lego', communities redesign India's slums

News / Food & Agriculture

Go fish! Minnow 'nutrient bombs' deployed to end malnutrition

...tered into a five-year partnership with the government of Odisha with the aim of growing its fisheries sector and attracting private sector investment. "The catch we get now is much bigger. It has hel...

22 Oct 2018

Go fish! Minnow 'nutrient bombs' deployed to end malnutrition

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

...turity: Foundation countries need to get the fundamentals right. They have to establish clear regulations that are enforced consistently. They need to collect revenue in a transparent and systematic ...

9 Jan 2018

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

News / Policy & Finance

Myanmar-Thailand highway branded 'ecological and social disaster'

...t with them, he said. "I don't want to say what would happen, but it would undermine the NCA," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "We have to think about how to respond." This story was ...

3 Sep 2018

Myanmar-Thailand highway branded 'ecological and social disaster'

News / Carbon & Climate

Societies must take care of those 'menaced' by green shift—officials

...tracts" between the central government and local authorities that would bring in businesses, universities and others. In Barcelona, Ribera told journalists that modern society must "pay attention to t...

16 Nov 2018

Societies must take care of those 'menaced' by green shift—officials

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

The future of innovation

...their innovations to market. Prior to this, Steve was the executive deputy chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority, the statutory board with various responsibilities for the information technol...

2 Apr 2018

The future of innovation

News / Energy

Social investors see the light on clean energy for the poor

...tner, hopes to attract new funders that could contribute to filling those gaps - whether in geographical locations or supply chains - with low-cost "patient" capital which is invested for at least thr...

14 May 2018

Social investors see the light on clean energy for the poor

News / Lifestyle

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

...ters, until such time that there have been sightings for three days straight,” said Abetria, the tourism officer. “That’s when we inform the Department of Tourism that they can start ‘advertising’ tha...

1 Jul 2019

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

News / Carbon & Climate

7 cool sustainability innovations from Asia in 2018

...te up to 90 litres of water a day. The start-up is running pilot tests of its units at the JW Marriott hotel in Phuket. 7. Blockchain chickens There isn’t an industry that hasn't thought about how to ...

7 Dec 2018

7 cool sustainability innovations from Asia in 2018

News / Cities

How can IoT make Asia's cities smarter and renewables pervasive?

...thanks to the transformative powers of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT—which interconnects everyday objects likes street lamps and refrigerators to the internet, enabling them to ‘talk’ to us—has th...

2 Jan 2019

How can IoT make Asia's cities smarter and renewables pervasive?

News / Food & Agriculture

Costa Rica coffee farmers brew up a carbon neutral future

...te specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. "It's the same as food safety and traceability. Consumers get more informed and they just want to know they're buying the right thin...

24 May 2018

Costa Rica coffee farmers brew up a carbon neutral future

News / Water

Thirsty world must wake up to looming water crisis, expert says

...ttention since being included in the United Nation's latest set of global goals due to be met by 2030 with targets for making water use more efficient and cutting the numbers going without. "It's cert...

31 Aug 2017

Thirsty world must wake up to looming water crisis, expert says

Opinion / Water

Why your water footprint doesn't matter

...t the reality is that the concept of footprints cannot be used for water in a way that is environmentally meaningful. The first flaw in the water footprint concept stems from the fact that water is re...

3 Oct 2018

Why your water footprint doesn't matter

Papua Diving, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

News / Lifestyle

Can this dive resort save the last paradise on earth?

...ties. After buying the turtles from the young fisherman, Ammer immediately put one of them back into the water. Shocked, the boy jumped in after it. He resurfaced without the turtle, but with question...

27 Mar 2018

Can this dive resort save the last paradise on earth?

Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region.

News / Food & Agriculture

Can blockchain ensure Unilever's tea farmers produce a fairer brew?

...the start, not the end," said Andrew Voysey, director of sustainable finance at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), which unveiled the project on Tuesday at the...

18 Dec 2017

Can blockchain ensure Unilever's tea farmers produce a fairer brew?

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists urge world leaders to ramp up targets to protect global biodiversity

...t that 25 to 75 per cent of regions or major ecosystems must be protected,” they write. The fact that there is such a wide range to scientists’ recommendations — from 25 to 75 per cent — demonstrates ...

1 Oct 2018

Scientists urge world leaders to ramp up targets to protect global biodiversity

News / Cities

Drowning in data? Cities develop code for a smarter future

...to what end. "The real people on the streets sometimes feel like technology is something that is done to them, not necessarily with them or for them," said Jason Whittet, associate director for soluti...

23 Nov 2018

Drowning in data? Cities develop code for a smarter future

News / Carbon & Climate

Dirty industry undermines push to curb global warming - ex-UN climate chief

...ternational initiative that seeks to put greenhouse gas emissions on a downward path by 2020. "We're definitely not on track with everything to do with heavy industry that continues to depend on inten...

26 Feb 2018

Dirty industry undermines push to curb global warming - ex-UN climate chief

News / Corporate Responsibility

From tourism to coffee, young Thais blend profit with social good

...to set up Local Alike, a travel consultancy that promotes sustainable tourism in 70 villages. "I grew up in the same situation where there weren't many economic opportunities, so it attracts me to wor...

9 Oct 2017

From tourism to coffee, young Thais blend profit with social good

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate insurance scheme targets women farmers in Africa, Asia

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.o...

22 Jan 2018

Climate insurance scheme targets women farmers in Africa, Asia

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