Friday 1 July: as economists hope that Asia’s tiger economies will now lead the way out of global recession, communist Laos remains a relative newcomer. Now it’s open for business – with outside investment pouring in, and resources like timber and rubber pouring out, transforming the country and turning virgin forest into fields and plantations.
Eighteen journalists from around the world flew into Bonn, in Germany’s picturesque Rhineland, in early June for a media workshop during the latest round of international negotiations on tackling global warming under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Gland, Switzerland/London, UK 9 June 2010 – IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Thomson Reuters Foundation and COMplus are launching the 2010 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging the highest standards in environmental reporting worldwide.
IPS and partners celebrated International Biodiversity Day, May 22nd, with the launch in Rome of biodiversity reporting guidelines for journalists covering this vital but complex topic. The guidelines are part of a wider communication initiative for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. IPS worked with partners Bioversity International and theInternational Federation of Environment Journalists (IFEJ) on the guidelines, within the COMplus sustainable development communication alliance.
6 April 2010 - Zimbabwean journalist Busani Bafana is the 2009 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Agricultural Science Journalism, described by CGIAR as”[a] professional who has put his way with words at the service of Africa's agriculture”.
30 March 2010 - The livelihoods of six and a half billion people are sustained by ecosystems containing almost 2 million known species. The welfare of Humankind is utterly dependent on this web of life.
Port au Prince, Haiti, 20 January 2010 - The Thomson Reuters Foundation has successfully launched its Emergency Information Service (EIS) to assist the disaster-struck population of Haiti and has already received more than 2700 messages. The new service, launched Sunday, allows survivors of the earthquake to receive critical information via a variety of communications channels, including SMS message directly to their phones, free of charge. Individuals can also send feedback via the same system that will reach the aid organisations working in Haiti.
18 December 2009 - Wangari Maathai , Kenya 's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke at the launch of Alertnet: Climate, a new website on the humanitarian impacts of climate change funded by Com+, Danida and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
