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Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital The global ocean is changing rapidly, with significant and increasing impacts on marine ecosystems, human lives and economies. Assessing the impacts

Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Waste / 05/16/2018

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 can recoup the waste generated before consumers purchase their devices. Many of us think we know what electronic waste is becaus

Environment , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 05/16/2018

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 organization boards and staff suggests that, overall, talk of increasing diversity has not turned into widespread action. Eddie L

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Forests , Migration / 05/14/2018

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 finding comes from a new study carried out by ornithologists at Cornell University, recently published in Ecology Letters. The study used c

Environment , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/10/2018

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 tackle the problem of too much, too little or too polluted water. The HydroConference, from 7 to 9 May in Geneva, brought together 215 pr

Environment , Governance , Interviews , Sustainable Development / 05/07/2018

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 being one of the world’s Least Development Countries (LDCs), as defined by the UN. The world’s 47 LDCs comprise about 880 million peo

Aid , Climate , Sustainable Development / 05/06/2018

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 hampers climate justice. “We live in constant fear that a direct hit from intensifying cyclones could wipe out our economy altogeth

Cities , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/04/2018

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 are among them. A recent scientific study has this shocking revelation to make. Researchers from the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ of Germany hav

Environment , Health , Sustainable Development / 04/29/2018

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 against the disease in the region, a study suggests. The study, presented this month (15-20 April) at the 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) P

Aid , Business , Climate , Launches & Events , Sustainable Development / 04/28/2018

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 business. It will also help them seize the corresponding opportunities Sixteen leading banks from four continents, convened by the UN Environment Financ

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