We address our environmental responsibilities in several ways - through the adoption of relevant policies, the provision of environmental news, the reduction of our own use of resources and through the activities of our staff.
Thomson Reuters will operate a policy of minimizing any adverse impact of our operations, products and services on the environment, the public health and on the occupational health and safety of our employees and visitors.
Thomson Reuters will commit to the concepts of sustainable development, pollution prevention and continual improvement in this area. At a minimum, we will remain in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Thomson Reuters will adopt a policy and procedures to act as a framework for:
- policy implementation, review, revision and improvement;
- establishing and reviewing quantitative objectives;
- communicating to internal and external stakeholders.
Reuters remains our news brand and carries immense power in the world's media. Coordinated by our Chief Environment Correspondent, our environmental journalist network is an authoritative source for environmental issues. Aimed at both specialists and a wider audience, our environmental output goes beyond the coverage of studies about climate change to explore possible solutions, such as more efficient energy use or clean solar, wind or hydropower. Through that news, conveyed in video, text and pictures, we are able to inform the environmental debate.
Reuters Foundation and Partners
- The Foundation continues to raise standards in the way environmental issues are reported, running journalism workshops focused on writing environmental news. Courses have taken place in countries including Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Lebanon, Vietnam, the UK and South Africa.
- The Foundation works in partnership with the Com+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, a group of international organizations committed to using communications to advance sustainable development projects. Courses funded by the Alliance range from reporting on water in Costa Rica to the importance of ecosystems services to development, and a program preparing journalists for coverage of the 2007 G8+ Climate Change Dialogue.
- The Foundation also continues to sponsor the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources media award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism. The 2006 Reuters-IUCN prize was awarded to Marina Walker Guevara of Argentina for her story “The children of lead” (Los niňos del plomo).