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Global Assessment: Urgent Steps Must be Taken to Reduce Methane Emissions this Decade
A Global Methane Assessment released today by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to...
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...
Urban Fish Ponds: Low-Tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal...
How to Value and Preserve Water
Thinking big to protect the world’s biggest natural capital asset
Water, the source of life - celebrated on World Water Day – is under pressure from climate change. With some regions becoming drier...
EBRD and EU Help Serbia’s Bel-Plast to Become More Energy Efficient
How an investment in modern equipment led to significant savings
Thirty years ago, the Špijunović family started a small home business. Today, the company’s facilities span 4,000 m2. Bel-Plast, in the Serbian city...
A Ten Step Plan to Save Our Seas
The year 2050 has been predicted by some to be a bleak year for the ocean. Experts say that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea, or perhaps only...
Plastics, a growing environmental and climate concern: how can Europe revert that trend?
The challenges posed by plastics are to a large extent due to the fact that our production and consumption systems are not sustainable. The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have amplified public...
Jamaica: Plastics Ban Creates New Opportunities
Every September, on International Coastal Cleanup Day in Jamaica, plastic is the most collected material. In 2019, the top 10 items collected were all single-use plastic and polystyrene (foam) waste, anything from...
The Year that COVID Built: a Look Back on 2020
What will you remember about 2020?
Many of us suffered loss of loved ones from the pandemic; even more of us have seen our livelihoods put in peril.
But there are some memories we...
FAO Launches the UN’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 (IYFV) with an appeal to improve healthy...
Land Consolidation Is the Missing Link for Farmers in North Macedonia
Coming from a family with a long tradition in agriculture, Ljupco Angelovski, a young family farmer in the village of Egri, North Macedonia, wanted to modernise his farm when he took it...
How WHO is Working to Track Down the Animal Reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
The introduction of a new virus to the human population is one of the greatest mysteries an epidemiologist can hope to unravel.
Some of the most common and deadliest human diseases are caused...
Over 200,000 Tonnes of Plastic Leaking Into the Mediterranean Each Year
A new IUCN report finds that an estimated 229,000 tonnes of plastic are leaking into the Mediterranean Sea every year - equivalent to over 500 shipping containers each day. Unless significant measures...
This Is What’s Happening With Single-Use Plastics Around the World
Canada will ban a range of single-use plastic products by the end of next year.
The ban will focus on six items that are often found in the environment, are often not recycled...
Why the World Needs a ‘Circular Bioeconomy’ – for Jobs, Biodiversity and Prosperity
There is no future for business as usual.
Our current economic system, which arguably has succeeded in creating unprecedented economic output, wealth and human welfare over the past 70 years, has led to...
Vegan Leather Made From Mushrooms Could Mould the Future of Sustainable Fashion
Seven millennia since its invention, leather remains one of the most durable and versatile natural materials. However, some consumers question the ethical ramifications and environmental sustainability of wearing products sourced from animals.This shift in social standards is...
