One World – One Environment – One Network
Sustainability is becoming part of routine practice within financial institutions and regulatory bodies worldwide, according to a new United Nations report. Huge progress has been made on reforming the global financial system over the...
On April 12th, 2018, the 5th Seedstars Summit was held in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Seedstars organisation connects stakeholders within key startup ecosystems across the world and is creating a large tech community in emerging...
Scientists have engineered an enzyme that can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics. The discovery provides a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. The plastic-eating enzyme could lead...
The Atlantic overturning – one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water southwards – is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000 years. Sea...
The Trump administration has prioritized rural areas over cities in the latest round of grants awarded under the $500 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) programme. “More than 64 per cent of this...
Waitrose has pledged to phase out all disposable coffee cups from its stores by autumn 2018 in a move to cut plastic waste. The British supermarket chain estimates saving over 52 million cups a...
British high-end department store Selfridges is banning the sale of all single-use plastic bottles for carbonated beverages from its stores, nearly three years after it stopped selling disposable water bottles. Selfridges has taken yet...
Cities around the world are turning to 3D printing to help them build sustainable futures. The technology is affordable, fast, easy to replicate and can even be used with recycled materials. “Cities are 3D...
An international team of researchers has identified an unusual pathway that predominantly facilitates loss of reactive nitrogen from freshwater lake waters, according to the results of a collaborative study now published in the journal...
The Plastic Bank aims to stop plastic pollution by turning waste into currency. In an interview with the UN’s environment agency, founder and CEO David Katz explains that putting a value on plastic waste...
Excess CO2 in the atmosphere is making oceans more acidic. Some studies show that’s bad news for fish, including commercially important species. But not all fish respond the same way, as Nancy Bazilchuck reports...
Smartphones and data centres will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, according to a new study. 85 per cent of smartphone emissions impact comes from production. New...
McDonald’s has become the first restaurant company to set approved science-based targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between WRI, WWF, CDP and the UN Global...
Forests will play a critical role in meeting the rising demand for water, food and energy that cities will face in the future, said senior UN officials on the International Day of Forests. This...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo and Indonesia jointly signed the Brazzaville Declaration to prevent the Cuvette Centrale region in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest peatland stores, from unregulated...
Balkrishna Doshi has been named the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, making him the first Indian architect to win architecture’s highest honour. Balkrishna Doshi has been an architect, urban planner and educator for over...
The UN’s food and agriculture agency and Vietnam launched a report that outlines the economic, environmental and social costs that extreme weather events are having on agricultural production worldwide. Poor farmers bear the largest...
The EU Commission has unveiled a strategy to make the European financial system for sustainable. Steps include an EU label for green financial products. The EU commission has set out a roadmap to boost...
New York governor Andrew Cuomo denounced the Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan while at the same time announcing $1.4 billion in funding for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects across the state. With former Vice...
Krill is not only an important food source for countless marine animals, the tiny crustaceans could also prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against ocean plastic pollution, according to Australian researchers....
