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Will the EU Finally End its Complicity in Global Deforestation?
Once again, government officials and politicians are returning home from the climate negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow with their bags full of promises and pledges to tackle the climate crisis, including lofty pledges...
The health impacts of the smoke from the fires in the Amazon
Depending on the time of the year and where you go in the Amazon, you may see two very different types of “mist”. One is the morning mist, caused by moisture that...
Tea and Coffee: Celebrating Their Cultural, Social and Economic Importance
Global tea and coffee experts came together to explore and celebrate the cultural, social, and economic importance of the world’s two most popular beverages including their role in making agri-food systems more...
4 Myths About Industrial Agriculture
Our lives revolve around food. It’s part of our cultures and our heritages, and our social interactions are often centered on it. Yet, it’s a privilege to be able to have meals...
WMO Commits to a Greener Future
The World Meteorological Organization has signed a long-term agreement with Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) to connect the WMO building to a new environmentally friendly initiative called GENILAC.
The agreement was signed by...
Three Ways You Can Protect Rivers
Rivers provide immense benefits and services to people, communities, and the planet—from drinking water to crop irrigation. Unfortunately, invaluable river systems all over the world are under increased stress from damming of...
EBRD Calls for an Increase in Rail Investment in the Western Balkans
As one of the major multilateral investors in the Western Balkans, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued an appeal for more investment in the region’s railway sector to...
From waste to energy: Turkey looks to biomass to achieve “green growth”
Currently, Turkey relies heavily on imported fossil fuels to meet its domestic energy demand. But by embracing the massive growth of its renewable energy market – including biomass and circular waste-free approaches...
Australia can Expect More Floods, Droughts and Fires
According to the recent IPCC report, Australia can look forward to more floods, more droughts, more fires, and worse — drier conditions, which means more droughts, more fires, and when it does rain, more floods....
How to Decarbonize Heavy-Duty Transport and Make it Affordable
The race to decarbonize transportation is on, attested to by a global wave of commitments to electrify government and corporate fleets.
However, heavy-duty trucking presents a special challenge. While it constitutes only 1...
Biodiversity leaders at UNDP recommend framework for monitoring ecosystem integrity
Improving ecosystem integrity is essential to ensuring human and planetary wellbeing. Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are working to adopt a consistent and accurate method to define and measure...
Why the EU’s Proposed Carbon Border Must not be Used to Launch a Carbon Club
Fuelled by frustration over the perceived insufficient progress on climate action among many of the world’s major economies, the idea of a so-called carbon club is gaining considerable momentum. Prime Minister Boris...
Collaborative Partnership on Forests Calls for Halt to Deforestation
A group of 15 international organizations working on forestry today issued a joint statement highlighting the need to halt the destruction of the world’s forests.
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) comprises UN...
UN Environment Assembly Concludes With an Urgent Call For Action to Solve Planetary Emergencies
Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations today concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the...
Helping Small Go Big: Mainstreaming What Happens in the Margins
With only a decade of action left for the sustainable development agenda, UNDP is looking beyond business as usual, to find new ways to learn from the margins, and to look into radically new approaches that fit the complexity...
The Circular Economy Can Help Save the Planet – if We Start Innovating Now
As we begin 2021, businesses face a complex matrix of challenges – from rising geo-economic tensions to the urgency of the climate crisis. With less than ten years to achieve the United...
