Sustainable Development – Page 14

Many cities are investing in trees, forests and other nature-based solutions to counteract these effects and help their residents adapt to climate change City leaders representing combined population of nearly 173 million residents have issued the Cities4Forests “Call to Action on Forests & C

Aid , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Governance , Human Rights , Migration , Resources , Sustainable Development / 09/21/2021

A shortfall of $75 billion expected over a period of six-years affecting the most vulnerable nations

Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to $75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge to mobilize $100 billion each year from 2020 to 2025 to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change and reduce their emissions, according to estimates by Oxfa

Business , Economy , Education , Environment , Health , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Waste / 09/20/2021

Three takeaways as Kenya marks 4 years since the ban on single-use plastic bags

Amos Wemanya Following the example of Kenya, many African countries are leading the world in finding solutions to plastic pollution through legislative mechanisms It is exactly four years since Kenya banned the use of single-use plastic carrier bags. It is important that as we mark the 4th

Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/19/2021

Droughts and late monsoon floods batter South Asia

Joydeep Gupta, Ramesh Bhushal Intensifying climate change means that opposite disasters are manifesting at the same time across the region, making emergency responses harder than ever As many parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh face floods, drought continues to affect large swathes of Pakistan

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/15/2021

2.6 Million Acres of Grassland Lost in North American Great Plains in One Year

Across the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains, approximately 2.6 million acres of intact grassland – an area larger than Yellowstone National Park – were plowed up in 2019 to make room for row-crop production, according to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) 2021 Plowprint Report. The new findings repres

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food , Governance , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/14/2021

Calls for halt to funding for industrial agriculture in Africa

Inga Vesper Civil society organisations have called on influential donors to stop funding industrial agriculture programmes, which they say harm smallholder farmers and the environment. The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) — which represents 200 million small

Data & Reports , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/08/2021

Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

This July, as the world was preparing to celebrate eleven years of ‘Human Right to Water’- recognized by the UN – an investigation into detention camps in Libya made some shocking revelations that would shame the civilized world. Refugees and migrants are being forced to trade sex fo

Aid , Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Economy , Energy , Environment , Governance , Health , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/07/2021

EU complicit in colossal, lawless air pollution from Balkan coal plants

Around 19,000 people are estimated to have died over the past three years as a result of air pollution from Western Balkan coal-fired power plants, according to a report released by CEE Bankwatch Network and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. The report, Comply or Close, launched to

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/06/2021

Tuna species commercially harvested is on recovery, while Komodo Dragon is endangered: IUCN Redlist

IUCN actively supports the development of an ambitious Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ and Red List Index will be used to track progress towards species conservation targets. Four commercially-fished tuna species are on the path to recovery thanks

Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 09/03/2021

Report Reveals Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Quarter of US and Canadian Emissions

JESSICA CORBETT The numbers don’t lie. Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth and the only way forward is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground Indigenous resistance to fossil fuel projects in the United States and Canada over a rec

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