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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wilmar launches landmark sustainable finance deal, child protection policy

...tainability, Wilmar, told Eco-Business that in addition to its ongoing sustainability efforts, the company would be taking additional steps as part of its efforts to meet the Sustainalytics targets. T...

1 Dec 2017

Wilmar launches landmark sustainable finance deal, child protection policy

News / Cities

Forget mansions, modest homes needed amid land pressures, Indian architect says

...ties that factors in the environment, climate and the community, besides economics. Those factors don't feature much in India's Smart Cities plan to create 100 hi-tech urban hubs that activists say wi...

11 Oct 2017

Forget mansions, modest homes needed amid land pressures, Indian architect says

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?

News / Waste

Despite state-level bans, plastic bags still suffocate India's cities

...to the flimsy carrier bags while plastic waste still litters the streets of the South Asian nation. In mid-January, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir became the latest state to prohibit all polyth...

2 Mar 2018

Despite state-level bans, plastic bags still suffocate India's cities

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

Singapore uses more airconditioning per person than any country in Southeast Asia, and energy expended on ai 73 per cent more energy on cooling more by 2030, to a total of 666,748 terrajoules. Image: Eco-Business

News / Green Buildings

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

...tional obsession with keeping cool. The city is getting hotter. As it gets hotter, the air-conditioning is cranked up. The more air-conditioning that is blasted out, the hotter it gets. The outside a...

28 Sep 2018

Air-con addicted Singapore seeks new ways to escape urban heat trap

News / Carbon & Climate

How will development in the Arctic affect Asia?

...tions with opportunities to benefit from its wealth of natural resources. Mikaa Mered, professor at the Free Institute of International Relations Studies (ILERI) pointed out at a recent event in Singa...

18 May 2018

How will development in the Arctic affect Asia?

News / Energy

Refugees ready to go green and become 'innovation hubs'

...t tend to think of refugees as potential energy consumers, but the opportunities to build a relationship with them are huge," Mattia Vianello, one of the report's authors, told the Thomson Reuters Fou...

31 Jan 2018

Refugees ready to go green and become 'innovation hubs'

News / Carbon & Climate

Zeroing in on air pollution

...tter city centre as a result. “About half the people who’ve responded to the consultation so far have said that they’re against the scheme and that it’s a dreadful infringement of the right to drive t...

31 Oct 2017

Zeroing in on air pollution

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

History teaches us that careful thought must go into planting trees

...t planted trees were leading to the loss of water in rivers that they forced the government to investigate the relationship between trees and water. The subsequent research showed unequivocally that t...

29 Jun 2018

History teaches us that careful thought must go into planting trees

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