Sustainable Development – Page 60

Mohamed Junayd A local company wants to remove 582 coconut palms from Badidhoo island. The Badidhoo island in Dhaal atoll is the latest flashpoint in the removal of trees for the landscaping of new resorts, an increasingly common practice environmental activists have dubbed #MvTreeGrab. A

Business , Data & Reports , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/10/2019

The tiny group controlling England’s water industry

At the top of the list of water profiteers is the CK Hutchinson group. This conglomerate is run by the family of Li Ka Shing, who at the last count was the 23rd richest person in the world. CK Hutchinson is run from Hong Kong but registered in the Cayman Islands, one of the many tax havens used by t

Biodiversity , Featured , Food , Forests , Sustainable Development / 01/08/2019

For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help

Covering more than 20 percent of the country’s land area – approximately half the size of Europe– the Cerrado is Brazil’s second-largest habitat after the Amazon rainforest, with areas ranging from grasslands to gallery forests to semi-arid caatinga characterized by desert-type vegetation. N

Aid , Events , Governance , Sustainable Development / 01/07/2019

World Bank President Kim to Step Down before term completion

During his term, Kim emphasized that one of the greatest needs in the developing world is infrastructure finance, and he pushed the Bank Group to maximize finance for development by working with a new cadre of private sector partners committed to building sustainable, climate-smart infrastructure in

Aid , Corruption , Governance , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 01/07/2019

Narcissism And Hubris Cause The Death Of An NGO

Some of the 50 people who lost their jobs have initiated legal action against the Governing Board to get severance pay

Climate , Disasters , Environment , Migration , Resources / 01/05/2019

How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

Vasile Ersek, Northumbria University, Newcastle Akkadia was the world’s first empire. It was established in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago after its ruler, Sargon of Akkad, united a series of independent city states. Akkadian influence spanned along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from what is

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights / 01/03/2019

Bolsonaro “declares war” on Brazil’s indigenous peoples

Jair Bolsonaro has started his Presidency in the worst possible way for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Taking responsibility for indigenous land demarcation away from FUNAI, the Indian affairs department, and giving it to the Agriculture Ministry is virtually a declaration of open warfare against

Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 01/02/2019

Pakistan can meet SDGs by tapping wind, solar energy

Presenting an “energy atlas” at a spatial resolution of 14 square kilometres, the researchers estimated the country’s potential for power generation at 78.69 terawatt-hour for wind energy, and 2.79 gigawatt-hour through solar energy.

Governance , Monitoring , Opinions , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 12/31/2018

Holiday Hallelujahs and my Wish List for Sustained Impact(s)

Conferences such as COP24, as well as a huge range of ‘non-state actors’, including corporations, non-profits, philanthropies, tribes, even individuals like you and me. Whether it is our self-interest or expenditure-avoidance which propels us to decrease our emissions and increase our use of cl

Business , Environment , Featured , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Waste / 12/29/2018

Taiwan has one of the Highest Recycling Rates in the World. Here’s how it happened.

This densely populated island of more than 23 million off mainland China has one of the world’s most efficient recycling programs, claiming 55 percent of trash collected from households and commerce, as well as 77 percent of industrial waste.

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