Privatisation “wave” hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks

Bangkok, Thailand Thomson Reuters Foundation A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting Indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change, researchers at a US-based thinktank said on Tuesday. From a rise in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a […]
As warming risks rise, Boston pastor sees need to spur ‘climate justice’

SHANNON LARSON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on Rev Mariama White-Hammond’s mission to prevent the impacts of climate change devastating black and minority communities…