Cities
Nature-Based Solutions to 21st Century Challenges
Nature Based Solutions (NBS) come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be applied across marine and terrestrial environments to solve a […]
Category: Environment
Sustainable Business
We’re flying less. And wild places that count on tourism dollars are starting to take notice
Dimitri Selibas Between flight shaming and a global pandemic, destinations that depend on travellers to protect ecosystems are finding themselves with fewer resources to […]
Disasters
Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system
Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way […]
Climate
HIGHEST NUMBER OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN 2019
Global Witness today revealed the highest number of land and environmental defenders murdered on record in a single year, with 212 people killed in […]
COVID-19
Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond
It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this […]
Sustainable Business
Doing Business Differently to Save the Planet
Karin Helmstaedt Patagonia says that they are effectively making the business case for reinventing capitalism along with saving the planet. In late May I […]
Biodiversity
Mars Chocolate invests in Sustainable Cocoa and Palm Oil Research
The new project launched between International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mars, Incorporated and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have will focus on two raw materials critical to the livelihoods of […]
Sustainable Business
Who are the Corporate Pandemic profiteers-Big names out there
Pharmaceutical and tech companies and wealthy white Americans benefit from dramatic pandemic profits, further exacerbating inequality While the United States faces the deepest economic […]
Biodiversity
Siberian Wildfires Cover Russian Cities in Smoke
Major Eastern Russian cities are shrouded in haze as a mega fires continue to burn through Siberian Taiga forests, in what is becoming an […]
Aid
Hollowed-Out US Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester The US public health system […]
Aid
27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises
No world region is immune, from Afghanistan and Bangladesh in Asia, to Haiti, Venezuela and Central America, to Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in […]
Aid
Fossil fuels rank high in G20’s Covid-19 recovery plans
Fermín Koop G20 governments have allocated at least US$151 billion to fossil fuels since the pandemic started, largely overlooking renewables Most of the world’s […]