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Steve Fletcher, University of Portsmouth The world produces a vast amount of plastic. Global plastic production increased from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to 348 million metric tons in 2017. Yet much of this plastic is wasted: 86% of the world’s plastic waste in 2016 was either incinerated, sent

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/15/2022

UK governments new Environment Law puts into doubt their commitments made at COP 26

UK new Environment Act could fail to tackle much of the country’s deforestation footprint abroad, despite the UK government’s claims of a ‘world-leading’ law and their role in securing the Glasgow Declaration on Forests to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. The Department For

Cities , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Governance , Monitoring , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 10/31/2021

Sewage pollution: our research reveals the scale of England’s growing problem

Sarah Purnell, University of Brighton and James Edward Ebdon, University of Brighton The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totalling over 200,000 km in length. It’s common for sewers here to accept both untreated human waste and rain water in a combined system. Water and sewerage compa

Corruption , Environment , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 09/30/2021

Police spying against women activists termed unlawful and sexist by court in UK

COVERT BRITISH COPS IN GREEN AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM MOVEMENTS OVER THE LAST FOUR DECADES HAVE TRIED TO STIFLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, DEVELOPED PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH ACTIVISTS, DEVASTATED MANY LIVES AND VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal in UK handed down its rulin

Aid , COVID-19 , Economy , Gender , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/05/2021

Amidst COVID, UK Government proposes 80 percent aid cut for water and sanitation sector

The reported cuts will end all future spending on water, sanitation and hygiene by the UK in countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, which is ranked as the sixth poorest nation on earth. Over 50 leading aid organisations and UK universities have condemned news of the UK’s planned 80% aid c

Cities , COVID-19 , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/05/2020

Britain’s public toilet shame: time for equal access to decent facilities for all

Natalie Boyd Williams, University of Stirling; Heather Roxburgh, University of Stirling, and Jennifer Dickie, University of Stirling Research work exploring sustainable ways of managing human waste, pointed to an important topic for reflection post lockdown: the inadequate provision of safe, clean p

Aid , Governance , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 06/18/2020

UK strips aid ministry of independence

Fiona Broom The world’s second-biggest global donor among developed countries has announced it will strip its aid ministry of independence by merging it with the country’s foreign office, leaving a question mark over billions of pounds in British funding for aid and research programmes. The Unit

Business , Cities , Climate , Economy , Environment , Featured , Governance , Sustainable Development , Transport / 03/07/2020

Rejecting the Bristol Airport Expansion: A vote for nature!

Surprising as it may sound, bats and birds have just won a battle over an airport. As the world grapples with a state of climate emergency and the current model of growth is being challenged worldwide, councilors of the North Somerset council in the UK have rejected the expansion plan of the Bristol

Biodiversity , Corruption , Environment , Forests , Human Rights , Resources / 04/05/2019

UK’s Charity Commission launches investigation into WWF

A major investigation by news site Buzzfeed, released March 4, 2019, exposed a shocking level of violent abuse by ecoguards and rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Britain’s charity regulator has launched an official investigation into WWF, in a major blow to the embattled organiza

Gender , Human Rights / 12/08/2017

Women file sexism complaint to UN against UK police spies

Psychologically and sexually women abused by police spies infiltrating UK social and green movement groups files complaint at the UN The women complain to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women that the UK government has failed to prevent institutionalised discriminatio

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