Terry Slavin

Companies and major NGOs have been strangely loath to go public about how their climate and nature programmes have been affected by President Donald Trump’s evisceration of USAID and climate funding. Rainforest Alliance’s CEO, Santiago Gowland, however, is a refreshing exception.

International Women’s Day 2025 comes at a dark time in the struggle for gender equality. As we report in the latest issue of The Ethical Corporation, the new Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on diversity and inclusion represent a huge setback for women, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Catherine Early and Terry Slavin report on the implications in America and Europe as corporates withdraw targets to buy from minority and women-owned businesses

News earlier this year that Asian clothing factories supplying H&M and Zara were buying cotton linked to deforestation and land-grabbing in Brazil doubtless come as a shock to the two global fashion giants, who pointed to the fact that the cotton had been certified sustainable by the Better Cotton initiative.

News reports of TikTok users pouring milk down the drain in response to Arla Foods UK saying it would be trialling a new dairy feed additive on 30 UK farms came out of left – or should it be right – field.

As a girl growing up in Nigeria, Sandra C Chukwudozie was struck by the stark contrastbetween the country’s abundant natural resources – oil, gas and minerals – and the overwhelming energy poverty of its people.

Marcelo Montanari likes to say he was born under a coffee tree. In the four generations that his family has farmed coffee in Brazil after emigrating from Italy 130 years ago, the Motanaris had to relocate four times, when farming became unviable for either political or climate reasons.

Compared with the greenery-bedecked skyscrapers of Singapore’s central business district, Keppel Bay tower, on the city’s harbourfront, looks a decidedly ordinary 18-storey box of glass and steel.

As U.N. Women’s latest report again confirms, the struggle for greater gender equality has stalled, with women continuing to have to fight to have their voices heard in boardrooms and in corridors of power. For women working in climate change, this iniquity was crystallized late last year, when the government of Azerbaijan announced the organizing committee of this year’s COP29 climate conference

To see how escalating deforestation and rising temperatures are already having profound impacts, look no further than the Amazon rainforest, where water levels last year reached their lowest since measurement began, threatening both humans and animals – and the integrity of the world’s biggest tropical forest.