Global call on G7 and Corporates to end plastic pollution crisis
New data collected through cleanups and brand audits confirms that some of the world’s largest corporations — including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestlé, and Procter & […]
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Impact of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Indian Businesses
Ameya Paratkar The scope for GDPR implementation is much wider in India. According to a survey conducted by EY, 70% of Indian respondents see data protection and data privacy compliance as […]
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Cancers linked to obesity to double by 2025 in Brazil
The number of people suffering from cancers associated with obesity or overweight — such as breast, colon and prostate tumours — is expected to double in Brazil by 2025, up…
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Nobody Wants You To Know What Is Happening In Ethiopia
Soma Basu My story – Behind Ethiopia’s Prosperity: Systematic Genocide Of An Ancient Tribe – explains the rot in the country and why I was seen […]
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“Guardians of the Amazon” seize illegal loggers to protect uncontacted tribe
Members of an Amazon tribe patrolling their rainforest reserve to protect uncontacted relatives from illegal loggers have seized a notorious logging gang, burned their truck, and […]
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Are we ready for the next Pompeii-learning from past disasters
The great disasters of the past – like the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD or the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo in 1930 […]
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Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean
Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital […]
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Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us
Jindra Cekan Global development aid has a problem which may already affect impact investing as well. It is that we think it’s really all […]
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Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong
Josh Lepawsky Waste arises ubiquitously, but unevenly, throughout the lives of electronics, not only when users discard their devices. No amount of post-consumer recycling […]
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U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.
Virginia Gewin There are still relatively few connections between communities of color and the environmental sector. The ongoing lack of ethnic diversity on environmental […]
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Climate change could put food supply for migratory birds at risk
Augusta Dwyer Along with rising sea levels and disrupted weather patterns, climate change could also have a potentially harmful impact on migratory birds. That […]
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Development workers behaving badly
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Is it really the much-awaited #MeToo or #TimesUp moment of the development industry? Now that the waves of reactions and counter-reactions have […]
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HydroConference: a very urgent need to improve water management
A three-day conference on hydrological services therefore sought to address the urgent need to improve forecasting, management and use of water supplies and to […]
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ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho
Brent Foster Beatrice Nyariara lives in Korogocho. It’s widely considered to be Nairobi’s most dangerous slum. More than 150,000 people are packed into the […]
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Bhutan to graduate from being a Least Developed Country
Dawa Gyelmo Secretary of Gross National Happiness Commission spoke to thethirdpole.net about what this milestone means for Bhutan Bhutan is about to graduate from […]
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Climate finance – not kind, climate justice
The international community is failing to move to important discussions: sources, mechanisms and access modalities of Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) since 2012 and this […]
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Asian Cities pollute our Seas the most, must act together to curb it!
Eight of the ten rivers, that carry almost 95 percent of all the plastic debris into the Seas, are from Asia. Ganges and Indus […]
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Solar Project to Restore Electricity to a Million Yemenis signed by WB and UNOPS
The World Bank and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) signed an agreement for a US$50 million project to improve access to […]
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Blood transfusions a ‘hidden’ malaria risk
Nelson Mandela Ogema The high prevalence of malaria parasites in blood for transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa could be a major setback in the fight […]
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UN issues first guidance for banking industry to become more transparent on climate issues
The guidance will help banks better manage and be more transparent about the risks that the transition to the low-carbon economy presents to their […]
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Half of Earth’s satellites restrict use of climate data
Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Scientists and policymakers need satellite data to understand and address climate change. Yet data from more than half […]
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Do no harm: A code to guide use of humanitarian drones
Sandy Ong Humanitarian UAViators Network as a platform that discuss best practices in the field — and drafting a code of conduct was the first […]
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Tribunals alone can’t save dying rivers in India: Experts
The 2nd Odisha River Conference organised on April 22 and 23 by Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) and Mahanadi River Waterkeeper, along with about 25 […]
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Building a forest in the heart of Karachi
Zofeen T. Ebrahim The Japanese method of mimicking nature, and growing forests in the heart of the city, is being picked up in Pakistan, […]
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