The Thomson Reuters Foundation defines a social enterprise as a business that trades for a social, humanitarian or environmental purpose and reinvests more than half its profits back into its ...

Disasters in 2021 from extreme weather and natural phenomenon such as earthquakes resulted in a global economic loss of $270 billion, according to a report last month by the Swiss Re Institute ...

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Report stops short of advocating going meat-free, but says dietary changes, featuring plant-based foods and sustainable animal-sourced food, could free up land and ...

BANGKOK, April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Singapore is betting on floating solar farms and vertical panels to increase its clean-energy supplies and cut carbon emissions, a model that could ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery ...

As energy demand grows, with much of it still met from fossil fuels, emissions from building operations hit an all-time high in 2019 ROME, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Planet-warming ...

As Britain announces its 'green industrial revolution' and bans the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, here's a roundup of other countries' plans ...

Rounded up in mass raids in Abu Dhabi, Cameroonian expatriate workers were deported home - only to face fighting and the prospect of exile ...

TURNING TO TECH An April report from the Netherlands-based Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation said Africa's digital agricultural services sector has grown nearly 45% annually ...

The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a few countries – the latest in a series of overlapping food crises ...