By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"This research suggests that banks continue to turn a blind eye to the devastating impacts of their financial services"
JAKARTA, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Banks have financed companies responsible for
Climate change is leading to higher average temperatures and greater rainfall variability, with a pronounced effect on agricultural productivity and the suitability of major crops in Ethiopia. Farming households with tenure security are more likely to choose to access credit and to invest in their
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When George Porto joined Brazil's environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn't have access to satellite data on illegal logging -- let alone heat maps tracking
By: Michael Harris
Date: 9 November 2016
Source: Hydroworld.com
An announcement made this week by Mexico's Comision Reguladora de Energia could provide hydroelectric developers with an easier means of settling land use conflicts.
The majority of small-scale farmers have no legal access to water
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: Thmoson Reuters Foundation
Construction permits for the Tabajos dam are currently suspended due to concerns over indigenous land rights
Date:November 16th 2016
Source: FAO Press Office
FAO unveils new global framework for action on water scarcity at COP22 summit
16 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco-The world must rapidly move to scale up actions and ambitions on climate change FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told
Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa sandwiched between an
By: David Humphreys
Date: 13 January 2017
Source: Chinadialogue
By: Morgan Erickson-Davis
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: Mongabay
After years of rising deforestation rates, Myanmar is temporarily banning logging activity until March 2017.
Myanmar lost 5 percent of its tree cover from 2001 through 2014, with rates scaling upward over that time.
Date: September 7th 2016
Source: Counter View
A new study by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), “World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development – Emerging Futures” has regretted extremely low levels of “aggregate municipal expenditures in India”, which happen to