Invest in nature and reap cash benefits, World Economic Forum urges cities
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation After a landslide in 2017 killed 1,141 people and left more than 3,000 homeless in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, the recovery plan included training residents to plant 21,000 native trees to reduce the risk of future disasters on bare hillsides. Amid erratic and unusually heavy rains, as well as urban expansion, […]
POSTCARDS: UGANDAN WALKERS PLANT TREES TO KEEP THE CLIMATE FIT
JOHN OKOT reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on how walkers are making a difference by planting trees to address climate change…
Scientists urge climate protesters to save planet by planting trees
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation The best way to keep climate change in check is by replanting trees on destroyed forest areas the size of the United States, scientists said last week, as doing so would capture two-thirds of man-made planet-warming emissions. Tom Crowther, a professor at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at […]
Moves to cut emissions could cause more hunger than climate change, study finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation Adopting some of the most stringent measures needed to curb climate change across all industries could cause hunger levels to rise by three times as much as global warming itself, according to a study released last week. Including agriculture in schemes such as a global carbon tax could put 78 million more […]