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News / Waste

'Zero-waste' stores put consumers on frontline in fight against packaging

...ternatives to typical throwaway products such as plastic cutlery, razors and sponges. "I want to help people understand that it's not difficult to be sustainable," Caldironi told the Thomson Reuters F...

5 Sep 2017

'Zero-waste' stores put consumers on frontline in fight against packaging

Opinion / Manufacturing

'Sustainable' Lego: plastics from plants won't solve a pollution crisis

...to be passed on to new owners than be broken down into microplastics, although it still contributes to the pollution problem. “ Though plants offer alternatives to oil-based plastics, they can’t yet ...

14 Mar 2018

'Sustainable' Lego: plastics from plants won't solve a pollution crisis

News / Energy

In rush to electrify, Cambodia stirs the living and dead

...tter to provincial authorities, the 62 families holding out in Srekor asked the government to recognise their new settlement as an "indigenous community" with rights to the land. The government should...

5 Jun 2018

In rush to electrify, Cambodia stirs the living and dead

News / Energy

Politics could short-circuit Australia's clean energy future

...tments don't falter after 2020, Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel suggested in a recent review of the country’s electricity market, that Australia adopt a Clean Energy Target (CET) after 2020; t...

27 Jul 2017

Politics could short-circuit Australia's clean energy future

News / Corporate Responsibility

Coca-Cola, Walmart among global firms joining forces for women's equality

...They are huge global systems that include everything from production to transportation, they go from farms to laboratories, from offices to factories. "If we don't learn to work within those systems, ...

5 Dec 2017

Coca-Cola, Walmart among global firms joining forces for women's equality

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

...tivities that contribute to the climate problem and into climate solutions. However, they are just getting started in thinking through and strategizing on how best to respond—and tracking the climate ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

Nurjan Toktomambetova, is a member of self-help group of women entrepreneurs

Opinion / Policy & Finance

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

...tunity to accelerate progress towards gender equality. Movements such as #MeToo have shone the spotlight on an unacceptable status quo and demonstrated how too many women the world over continue to be...

7 Mar 2018

To achieve gender equality, we need women entrepreneurs

News / Cities

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

...to take on the challenges of the 21st century. 62 per cent of respondents disagreed with this statement. A constant concern in the dialogues was that cities were restrained in their ability to innovat...

16 Jul 2018

Asia's urban crunch: What to do about 900,000 weekly arrivals?

Research / Collective Responsibility

Informal waste management in China

...tre The latest addition to our publications series “Informal Waste Management”, a report that we have constructed after interviewing dozens of stakeholders, visiting waste management site...

6 Jul 2017

Informal waste management in China

News / Policy & Finance

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

...that it is possible to take something that women have for too long kept quiet about and transform it into a powerful movement...The collective female voice is unstoppable – combine this with the trans...

31 Jan 2018

Listen up, financiers: Women have money, and they want to invest it responsibly

News / Energy

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

...term agreements. This would mean that the new Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) government only had the option of making the “best out of a bad situation”. “If there are long-term contracts with strict fi...

28 Aug 2018

Government unhappy, but Pakistan to stay with coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

...those that do accept that global warming is real and important, they still tend to think of it as distant," Leiserowitz said, both in terms of when impacts will come and where they will happen. That m...

2 Mar 2017

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

News / Waste

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

...t think about how it hurts the environment. They just think about what they want now, and what's on trend,” added Torres. Pointing to a pile of clothes, Torres emphasised that most of the donated clot...

29 Jan 2018

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

people carrying umbrellas after a storm in India

News / Policy & Finance

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

...the meeting. "And that has to be addressed through investments at national level - social protection systems, national disaster management capacity, infrastructure capacity - to be able to deliver the...

31 Jul 2017

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

News / Energy

Coal-reliant Philippines struggles to power up clean energy

...tricity," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But the country's first tax hike on coal in 30 years, introduced in March, may signal a shift in the government's attitude towards the fossil fuel, en...

21 May 2018

Coal-reliant Philippines struggles to power up clean energy

News / Transport

Are recyclers ready for the coming glut of lithium-ion batteries?

...t generation of electric vehicle batteries have not got to a recycling stage yet, but the clock is ticking. In Europe it is estimated that 5 per cent of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the rat...

9 Jul 2018

Are recyclers ready for the coming glut of lithium-ion batteries?

Opinion / Energy

Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

...tly went to market that uses its electricity to draw water from the atmosphere to deliver up to 5 liters of pure water per day — a potential life-saver for many in the Asean region. The technology dev...

6 Jul 2018

Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

News / Energy

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

...the idea that such gains can lift their countries out of poverty. But to what extent do these benefits trickle down to the local population, especially to communities that have had their lives altered...

21 Aug 2018

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

Opinion / Energy

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

...ted coal is tied directly to regulatory practices that act as implicit subsidies that perpetuate market distortions. The cost of coal can range from P3.8 to P5.5 (US$.07 to US$0.11) per kilowatt hour ...

16 May 2018

Electricity in the Philippines does not need to be so expensive—or dirty

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News / Green Buildings

The missing brick in green buildings: The occupant

...tting our tenants to do the same is a lot more difficult, because you can’t tell them what to do. They are the ones paying us the rent,” said Leong, adding that sustainability may not be part of the t...

20 Sep 2017

The missing brick in green buildings: The occupant

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