Venice hit by another ferocious high tide, flooding city
An exceptionally high tide has hit Venice again just three days after the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 50 years, leaving squares, shops and hotels once more inundated
FACTBOX-Can global corporations meet 2020 no-deforestation pledge?
The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked international companies that make consumer goods for an update on their progress
INTERVIEW-Brands urged to think bigger on saving forests as 2020 goal looms
Many multinationals that use palm oil have relied on green certification schemes, but this alone will not stop forests being cut down to grow commodities, warns Consumer Goods Forum
Climate activists protest at Blackrock over investments in the Amazon
Activists unfurled a banner with the slogan 'Stop financing deforestation'
German parliament approves climate protection law
Germany, Europe's largest economy, means to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 55% of its 1990 level by 2030
Hit by drought and power cuts, Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
Telecommunications towers and other businesses are turning to solar power with battery storage to fight climate-related electricity shortages
European Investment Bank to cease funding fossil fuel projects by end-2021
The new policy potentially deals a blow to billions of dollars of gas projects in the pipeline, which will now have to be based on "new technologies" to qualify for funding
U.S. lawmakers propose $180 billion plan to make public housing green
The Green New Deal for Public Housing aims to eliminate planet-warming carbon emissions from the nation's roughly one million units of public housing over the span of a decade
Green Climate Fund expands support to more than 100 developing states
Countries from Mozambique to Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay and China get support
INTERVIEW-Wildlife-loving Gabon minister seeks to stamp out illegal logging
"Maintaining forests is the most cost-effective way of dealing with climate change," said Gabon's new environment minister