Thomson Reuters Foundation convenes leading companies to tackle the threat to human rights in global supply chains during the COVID-19 crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, workers within supply chains are being adversely impacted. In response to these urgent challenges, in April 2020 the Thomson Reuters Foundation formed a community of leading companies to share best practice on ways to uphold the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
As floods hit Borneo, Indonesia urged to boost climate action under Paris accord
Jakarta has said it will not raise its targets to cut planet-heating emissions - which researchers judge insufficient - despite being hit by floods and rising seas
IEA says oil, gas methane emissions down 10% in 2020 as output fell
Agency says a large part of drop in methane emissions was not due to companies taking more care to avoid leaks but because they produced less oil and gas last year
Shift to renewable energy eases key environmental burdens, EU says
Renewable power generation in the EU has nearly doubled since 2005, producing 34% of electricity in 2019 compared with 38% from fossil fuels
Chilean lithium miner SQM says relations with indigenous communities are improving
Lithium miner SQM says it is committed to indigenous communities, who fear its mining activities may jeopardise a fragile salt flat
France's Total quits top U.S. oil lobby over climate policies
Points of difference include lobby's support for rollback of U.S. regulation on methane emissions and how to assign a price to carbon
You think money grows on trees? Estonian firm seeks finance from forests
Single.Earth is a digital platform for landowners that connects them with businesses that offset their carbon emissions by paying to preserve trees
Biden presidency sets stage for wider global advances on climate policy
End of the Trump era could lead to shifts in climate debate in bodies from the World Trade Organization to the G7, diplomats say
Scientists warn climate change is harming children's diets
Rising temperatures and lower rainfalls could undo decades of work reducing malnutrition
Campaigners to Biden: Environmental justice key to tackling climate change
Activists say U.S.'s role as biggest historical emitter gives it responsibility to remedy disproportionate impact of climate change on developing nations and indigenous peoples