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What is “Nature Positive” and Why is it the Key to our Future?
G7 leaders recently announced that “our world must not only become net zero, but also nature positive, for the benefit of both people and the planet.”
This represents a real paradigm shift in...
Protecting Fragile Marine Ecosystems
This year’s World Environment Day, officially celebrated on 5 June, focuses on ecosystem restoration, an important aspect of a healthy world. The EBRD’s work with the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) shows...
Five Milestones in Green Energy
Energy accounts for two-thirds of total greenhouse gas, so embracing cleaner sources is key to fighting climate change.And while the energy transition still has a way to go, renewable energy is nonetheless on...
This Is How CO2 Can Be Transformed Into Food for Animals
A British biotechnology start-up is converting industrial greenhouses gases into protein for animal fodder. The company uses a process it says can help to feed the world’s growing population while simultaneously being...
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...
2021: it’s Now or Never for Mediterranean Wetlands
It’s World Wetlands Day on 2 February – and there has never been a more important time for us to take stock of what’s being celebrated and why. That’s because the future...
This Flying AI Robot Can Pick Fruit – Preventing Waste in the Process
It’s getting harder to find fruit pickers to harvest the world’s orchards. COVID-19 travel restrictions have prevented seasonal workers crossing borders, so some farmers are turning to AI drones to pick their...
Agricultural Policy Needs To Secure Stronger Environmental Improvements for Water in Europe
Agricultural management practices should be based on agroecological principles, organic farming and nature-based solutions, the EEA report ‘Water and agriculture; towards sustainable solutions,’ says.
To achieve this, more ambitious measures to promote sustainable...
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...
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...
Got Climate Change? Kelp Can Help
Kelp, which most of us refer to as seaweed, may be an important tool in the quest to limit the effects of a warming planet. Much of the carbon dioxide emitted into...
Our Global Food System is the Primary Driver of Biodiversity Loss
Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss, the new Chatham House report, supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Compassion in World Farming, describes three actions needed for food system transformation in...
Mitigating Climate Change: It Starts With Better Ocean Data
For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a...
This Belgian Start-Up Allows Anyone to Become an Urban Farmer
A Belgian start-up is helping people in major cities turn their hand to urban farming. Peas&Love is the brainchild of Jean-Patrick Scheepers, co-founder of Belgium’s biggest cooking school. After the failure of a...
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...
Largest Train Station In Asia Gets Solar Roof
The Xiongan Railway Station is a new train station in China that is the largest in Asia, covering 680,000 square meters. It’s 2020, so, naturally, the train station is covered in solar...
