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News / Carbon & Climate

The top 10 most read stories of 2018

...talists. The baby turtles were kept in buckets of water until the VIPS arrived, with tourists picking the turtles up for selfies during the wait. By the time they were released into the ocean, most we...

2 Jan 2019

The top 10 most read stories of 2018

News / Carbon & Climate

Taking back carbon 'imperative' to stop planet overheating, backers say

...tries from Britain to the United States have included some of them in their plans to curb climate change. They also feature in a report, due out next month, by the world's leading climate scientists, ...

20 Sep 2018

Taking back carbon 'imperative' to stop planet overheating, backers say

News / Waste

Binning the bag: Queensland gets tough on waste

...t is important to target those litter sources too, noted Thornton, adding that "when we talk about plastics ingested by marine life, we don't know if they are all plastic bags or other types of plasti...

8 Sep 2017

Binning the bag: Queensland gets tough on waste

News / Carbon & Climate

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

...ts, Tevita said she is confident that being prepared for disasters is a better solution. "We love this village. The people don't want to move. So, from our training, we are starting to do things bette...

22 Dec 2017

"We are ready": Fijian villagers prepare for climate disasters

Opinion / Cities

Building and living differently in cities

...t least 136 "megacities" (defined as "port cities with a population greater than one million in 2005"). That doesn't include new cities that will enter this category due to population growth in the ne...

1 Nov 2018

Building and living differently in cities

Press Releases / UN Environment

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

...That percentage falls to 49 in high-income countries. World Environment Day events on every continent drew attention to this issue, and united communities against a global health threat that affects ...

6 Jun 2019

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

News / Energy

Villagers lose homes, land to feed India's booming power sector

...t on a register to hear about the proposal. People who were at the meeting said that about 150 villagers attended. But when they later filed a freedom of information request to look at the register, t...

30 Oct 2018

Villagers lose homes, land to feed India's booming power sector

News / Food & Agriculture

With wonky vegetables and beer, social enterprises keep food out of landfills

...t of supermarket food waste. "Just across the channel, in France, they redistribute at least 10 times the food that we redistribute," Boswell told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. France last ...

7 Nov 2017

With wonky vegetables and beer, social enterprises keep food out of landfills

News / Carbon & Climate

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

...tor of the national Climate Change Secretariat noted that the country's "adjustment to rising temperatures has not been ideal and (has been) too slow across the board". 'Urgent' need to act In the pas...

30 Jul 2018

Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka

Press Releases / City Development Limited

CDL and Global Initiatives launch Singapore series of UN Environment’s #BeatPlasticPollution campaign

...tors to pledge their commitment to reduce plastic waste and they can share this on social media using the #BeatPlasticPollution and #ClimateActionSG hashtags. The other two installations Our Forgotte...

13 Jun 2018

CDL and Global Initiatives launch Singapore series of UN Environment’s #BeatPlasticPollution campaign

News / Food & Agriculture

Create rural jobs for youths to stem flight to cities, says UN

...t of poverty," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Countries in East and Southeast Asia have been able to boost incomes in both cities and the countryside in the past 20 years. "In Vietnam most of...

13 Oct 2017

Create rural jobs for youths to stem flight to cities, says UN

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action barometer: 12 charts explain where we are today, and where we need to be in 2020

...ts and corporations better monitor and target efforts to halt it. Tropical countries need to enact policies to step up forest protections and the corporations that operate in them need to follow throu...

22 Jan 2019

Climate action barometer: 12 charts explain where we are today, and where we need to be in 2020

Opinion / Manufacturing

Modern slavery and exploitation: Who pays the price?

...tton t-shirt and my sneakers. As I write this, I can't help but think about the costs of these items. Simultaneously so little to me and so costly to others…those in the factories, plantations and ben...

24 Nov 2017

Modern slavery and exploitation: Who pays the price?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Trump's suggestion to renegotiate Paris is a red herring

...tside the Trump administration have cast doubt on Trump's intention to renegotiate the Paris Agreement. Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called the President's position just cover, ...

7 Aug 2017

Trump's suggestion to renegotiate Paris is a red herring

News / Manufacturing

Who made my clothes? Asian workers' diaries show 'human cost'

...tainty," said Guy Stuart, executive director of Microfinance Opportunities. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers...

23 Feb 2018

Who made my clothes? Asian workers' diaries show 'human cost'

News / Waste

Can marketing solve Asia’s plastic pollution problem?

...te in the city-state, an NGO representative suggested that this has given citizens an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude to waste—which explains why the city-state's overall plastic recycling rate i...

31 Jan 2018

Can marketing solve Asia’s plastic pollution problem?

News / Food & Agriculture

What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?

...tarting to worry about the existence of oil palm plantations. They have become environmentally literate and have started to speak out against oil palm plantations that do not preserve the environment....

16 Jan 2019

What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?

News / Food & Agriculture

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

...they contribute the most labour but often lack access to farming income and assets. At Indonesian startup CROWDE, the initial target is to get 100,000 farmers to join the scheme and then foster their ...

12 Oct 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

News / Food & Agriculture

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

...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...

16 Apr 2018

UK supermarket Iceland pledges no palm oil in its own-brand products

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Environmental impact assessments aren't protecting the environment

...t to incorporate all impacts related to the development? In short, vested interests. Most governments require the developer to fund the EIA. And the last thing the developer wants is an EIA that stop...

19 Dec 2018

Environmental impact assessments aren't protecting the environment

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