Originally from rural Yorkshire, Michael has more than 15 years of journalism experience – mostly with Thomson Reuters. He moved to Asia in 2011 and has reported from various countries across the region. Michael’s interest in climate change and resilience began while posted in Indonesia, where he reported on the annual haze, natural disasters, food security, deforestation and infrastructure from the capital Jakarta. He joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation as its Asia resilience correspondent in late 2017.
A restoration pilot project on Java island is helping villagers protect their communities by regrowing mangroves as climate change causes worsening floods.
Wildfires are becoming more widespread and burning around twice as much tree cover than 20 years ago, according to new data from Global Forest Watch.
Vanuatu has added costs for ‘loss and damage’ from global warming to its climate commitments. Climate-vulnerable countries want a global damages fund.
Recent floods in Malaysia caused nearly $1.5 billion in widespread destruction. Analysts believe deforestation is contributing to the worsening floods.
Tropical forests cool the world by more than 1 degree Celsius and increase rainfall, playing a vital role in keeping global temperatures at safe levels.
With water scarcity set to worsen on a warming planet, a U.N. report calls for sustainable use of underground supplies, which account for 99% of freshwater.
Sabah government hopes that these green palm oil revolutionary efforts will help protect forests, end labour abuses and improve agriculture practices.
A group of 57 mayors have agreed to ramp up forest protection and make their cities' streets greener.
The WWF say that 39 million new green jobs could be created globally if governments diverted their annual subsidies directed into planet-harming activities
The global economy could lose of $2.7 trillion a year by 2030 if ecological tipping points are reached and 51 countries would see their GDP fall by 10-20%.
The World Bank has found that each dollar invested in protected areas and nature-based tourism, creates a sixfold return, helping boost green recoveries.
Nature needs to be restored on land the size of China by 2030 to curb pollution, stop species loss and tackle climate change, according to a U.N. report.
A U.N. report has said that global annual spending to protect nature needs to triple to around $350 billion this decade and then rise to $536 billion by 2050.
Research shows harm to nature and efforts to stop it are grabbing more attention on digital media, particularly in Asia (including Pakistan and Indonesia.)
Deforestation has been falling for four years in a row in Indonesia. The country is now looking to protect precious carbon sinks like peatlands and mangroves.
