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Deng Han Chinese cities are building bicycle expressways but cyclists need more than dedicated lane The bicycle has seen a dramatic fall in popularity in China in recent decades. In the period 1978-1996, it’s estimated that 45% of urban commutes were on two wheels, declining to 35% between 1995

Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 03/03/2018

Restoring forests seen as vital to fighting climate change, extreme poverty

Hugh Biggar In the face of a changing climate and related mass migration and social instability, international experts are now viewing forests and tree rich environments as a key way of attacking these issues at the root. To do so, governments, businesses and international aid groups are turning to

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Forests , Launches & Events , Resources , Sustainable Development / 03/01/2018

US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued for Indonesia for sustainable natural rubber plantation and fighting deforestation

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF), a partnership between UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas, announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural rubber plantation on heavily degrad

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Biodiversity , Environment , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Transport / 02/27/2018

Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the Ucayali Region a national priority. On January 22, the Congress of the Republic of Peru enacted the new law. The move has sparked serious concern because t

Cities , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/23/2018

Let’s not make Cape Town face of our water future

Mega cities, the face of aspiration and progress of the modern world, have a bad news in Cape Town that has become the face of Water Emergency. According to the United Nations, water scarcity already hits more than 40 percent of the globe’s population and is expected to aggravate further due to

Biodiversity , Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/20/2018

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies

The environmentalist, who died on Friday, fought his battle as a bureaucrat, researcher, academic, public intellectual and activist It was only 10 years ago. On a hot summer afternoon on the banks of the Mahananda river in Malda, West Bengal, we had just finished speaking with a group of village eld

Biodiversity , Environment , Gender , Water / 02/19/2018

Walking across India as a Woman – Moving Upstream

Nupur Agarwal This is a guest blog by Nupur Agarwal. She had joined our Moving Upstream project and walked with us for almost 400 kms from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh to Gangotri, Uttarakhand along the Ganga as we documented the river. This article was first published in Veditum and has been republish

Aid , Climate , Environment , Sustainable Development / 02/17/2018

Climate finance and sustainable development go hand-in-hand

To ensure the proper delivery of climate funds, strictly following the top-down approach is required for effective coordination among policy-makers and implementers The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN SDGs reinforce the commitment made by developed countries to ensure the needs of devel

Data & Reports , Environment , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 02/16/2018

Common products, like perfume, paint and printer ink, are polluting the atmosphere

Jenny Fisher and Kathryn Emmerson Researchers found that ignoring volatile organic compounds from chemical products had significant impacts on predictions of air quality. In outdoor environments, they found that these products could be responsible for as much as 60% of the particles that formed ch

Biodiversity , Environment , Food , Sustainable Development / 02/14/2018

Safeguarding our oceans through sustainable seafood

Almost half of the seafood we eat comes from farms. For fish farming (aquaculture) to hold its promise to meet our future food demands, it will need to demonstrate that it can produce better farmed seafood. Through a partnership, Marina Bay Sands and WWF have jointly developed measurable and achieva

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