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Beatrice Tridimas

Digital Producer

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Beatrice Tridimas is a digital producer and journalist at the Thomson Reuters Foundation based in London. Bea covers climate change, the impact of technology on society and inclusive economies.

March 07, 2024

Across Europe, governments are introducing new rules, doling out stricter punishments and ramping up surveillance in response to a rise in climate demonstrations and direct action protests, such as blocking roads or throwing paint at artworks.

The clampdown could have a chilling effect on the ability of climate activists to protest and could constitute a threat to democracy, according to rights experts, the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

February 27, 2024

When a migrant rescue non-profit asked Nicolas Zemke if he could design an app to pinpoint ships in distress in the Mediterranean, the German web developer headed to a hackers' convention to look for like-minded volunteers.

He found help among the hordes of tech hobbyists huddled over their laptops at the Chaos Computer Club's annual gathering in the northern city of Hamburg - a mecca for hackers and activists intent on using their coding skills for social good.

February 23, 2024

Britain announced this week that it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over its failure to align with its net zero plans.

Since the late 1990s, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has allowed firms and investors to sue governments whose plans to cut emissions from fossil fuels could hurt corporate profits.

February 01, 2024

With a fan base of 3.5 billion – nearly half the global population – football is the world's most popular sport and its carbon footprint is huge.

With emissions created by energy use in stadiums, travel by fans and teams, broadcasting, the multibillion-dollar market for kits and other merchandise and even matchday meals, the beautiful game takes a not-so-beautiful toll on the planet's climate.

January 29, 2024

Nearly 300 million people around the world will need humanitarian aid in 2024, according to the United Nations, but after a record shortfall in donations last year, aid workers are bracing for the funding crisis to continue.

Only a little more than one-third of the $57 billion required to provide aid was funded last year, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in its annual assessment of global humanitarian needs.

November 22, 2023

It will take nearly 30 years to close the gender pay gap between men and women in Britain, according to a new report from women's equality charity the Fawcett Society.

British men earn on average 574 pounds ($715) more than women per month, a pay gap of 10.7% that will not close until 2051 if progress continues at the current pace, the report said.

November 15, 2023

Climate activist Greta Thunberg pleaded not guilty in a British court on Wednesday to a public order charge after she was arrested at an environmental rally in London last month.

Police detained Thunberg, 20, and dozens of protesters on Oct. 17 and charged them with failing to comply with conditions they imposed to prevent "serious disruption to the community, hotel and guests".

October 26, 2023

In between rows of sprouting cotton crops, the dried-out stems of wheat and sugar beet carpet a stretch of farmland near Turkey's Aegean coast, helping to lock in soil nutrients and moisture – even in the scorching heat.

In nearby fields, where cotton is being grown without the protective blanket, the plants wilt and wither under the sun.

September 25, 2023

They won a pioneering climate change lawsuit earlier this year - but few fishermen in the Turkish village of Tekelioglu feel hopeful that an ongoing battle in the courts can revive the dried-out lake where they have worked for generations.

"I don't feel anything anymore," retired fisherman Suleyman Pekkara, who worked on Lake Marmara in western Turkey for 50 years, told Context as he watched trucks driving past to pick up hay from the state farm that now occupies part of the lake bed.

July 24, 2023

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on Monday launched Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that distributes a crypto token, the WLD, to people "just for being a unique individual".

By issuing crypto tokens in return for biometric data, the project aims to work both as a global universal basic income and an authentication system to distinguish between humans and robots.