Alex Whiting
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Africa: Cities Plant More Trees to Curb Wild Weather, Boost Healthy Living
Big cities are increasingly turning to trees to help protect them from heatwaves and floods → Read More
Cities plant more trees to curb wild weather, boost healthy living
Big cities are increasingly turning to trees to help protect them from heatwaves and floods → Read More
Tailor climate insurance to needs of poorest
Providers have not invested enough in determining "what farmers want", one expert said. By Alex Whiting ROME, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Billions of dollars are being poured into insurance schemes to help farmers recover from worsening impacts of climate change, but as yet there is little evidence to show that such programmes work for the poorest, experts said on Thursday. About 75… → Read More
Eating less meat? Meatless butchers to mushroom burgers can help
Cutting demand for meat - particularly in wealthy countries - could make a big difference in combatting climate change, scientists say → Read More
Can Fijian story-telling save the planet?
Climate negotiators have begun the Talanoa Dialogue - a process of Fijian-style story-telling - but will it help countries curb emissions fast? → Read More
At Davos, bosses paint climate change as an opportunity
"Climate change is the next century's biggest financial and business opportunity" By Alex Whiting ROME, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Businesses should seize a $6 trillion opportunity to invest in tackling climate change over the next two decades, the head of an Indian multinational said at Davos on Thursday. "Climate change is the next century's biggest financial and business… → Read More
More green power could curb India's water, electricity gap
ROME, Jan 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Water shortages have disrupted India's power plants for years, and are likely to worsen as power demands grow and climate change brings more frequent droughts - a reality that is adding urgency to government plans to boost use of renewable energy, analysts said. → Read More
Warming will put millions more at flood risk in next 20 years
"More than half of the United States must at least double their protection level within the next two decades" By Alex Whiting ROME, Jan 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unless countries urgently boost their flood defences, millions more people will be at risk from river flooding in the next 20 years as global warming increases the likelihood of severe rainfall, scientists said on Wednesday. In… → Read More
Haiti tops index of nations worst-hit by extreme weather in 2016
Between 1997 and 2016, more than 520,000 people died in over 11,000 extreme weather events including storms, floods and heat waves worldwide → Read More
Haiti tops index of nations worst-hit by extreme weather in 2016
Between 1997 and 2016, more than 520,000 people died in over 11,000 extreme weather events including storms, floods and heat waves worldwide → Read More
Haiti tops index of nations worst-hit by extreme weather in 2016; PH at 16th
Haiti was hit last year by its strongest hurricane in 50 years, while Zimbabwe, which came second, suffered severe drought followed by floods. → Read More
Climate-hit nations ask: Who will pay the rising costs of disasters?
By Alex WhitingBONN, Germany (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate change-driven storms, floods and other disasters bring escalating financial lo → Read More
"Apocalyptic" storms threaten to overwhelm small island states
"Have we created a situation for small island developing states where resilience may not necessarily be achievable?" By Alex Whiting BONN, Germany, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unless emissions can be drastically and quickly curbed, efforts by small island nations to adapt to climate change may be in vain, a leader of a group of small island nations said Tuesday. Hurricanes that hit the… → Read More
From better bulbs to more trees, Italy’s Assisi takes on climate change
Mayor Stefania Proietti, an energy expert, plans to cut carbon emissions 40 percent between now and 2030, and hopes the “city on the hill” will inspire others to change too. → Read More
As disasters surge, nations must slash emissions faster, climate experts urge
By Alex WhitingBONN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With hurricanes, floods and other impacts of climate change becoming increasingly destructive, cou → Read More
As disasters surge, nations must slash emissions faster, climate experts urge
As U.N. climate negotiations start Monday in Bonn, disasters show the need for a hike in ambition, experts say → Read More
Droughts wipe out enough to feed 81 mln people
"This is an example of a poverty trap" By Alex Whiting ROME, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Droughts wipe out enough produce to feed 81 million people every day for a year - equivalent to the population of Germany, the World Bank said on Tuesday. Although it is floods that grab the headlines and trigger aid quickly, droughts have "shockingly large and often hidden" impacts that can last… → Read More
Africa: Mega-Mergers Will Squeeze Farmers, Push Up Food Prices, Experts Warn
If the world's major agriculture companies go ahead with planned mergers and gain greater control of the way food is produced, farmers will face higher costs and food will eventually become more expensive to buy, a panel of experts said on Friday. → Read More
Harness 'natural enemies' to fight pests and protect crops: World Food Prize winner
By Alex WhitingROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African farmers can lose up to half their harvest to pests, so storing their crops in chemically-t → Read More
EXPERT VIEWS-"Earth's fruits must be available for all" says pope on World Food Day
"Clearly wars and climate change are a cause of hunger, let us then not present hunger as though it were some sort of incurable disease" ROME, Oct 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On World Food Day, religious, political and humanitarian leaders have called for more action to end hunger, which has begun to rise for the first time in more than a decade. POPE FRANCIS Deaths due to hunger or to… → Read More