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Backed by Space Technology, Asia-Pacific Countries Power Sustainable Development
Asian and Pacific nations are leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in their efforts to contain the spread and mitigate the impact of the...
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...
Institutional Capital: Closing the Energy Transformation Investment Gap
The energy transformation is unstoppable. Renewable energy capacity additions have consistently outpaced the growth of traditional forms of energy over much of the last decade and in what has been dubbed the...
Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Nepal and Colombia
Cities have always had to conform to their natural surroundings. Traditional Moroccan housing was designed with open air courtyards to help with ventilation in the dry and hot climate. While in Iceland,...
Fao Calls for Stepping up Forest and Landscape Restoration
Efforts to restore the world's degraded forests and landscapes must be scaled up to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, said FAO in a new publication released today.
Land and forest...
New Jersey’s Plan To Cut Global Warming Emissions 80 percentage By 2050
As I wrote earlier today, New Jersey has a legal requirement to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percentage by 2050, based on 2006 levels.
Its biggest source of emissions is transportation, accounting...
Creation of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics under the auspices of UNESCO
UNESCO and France have formalized the creation in Montpellier of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics (ICIReWaRD) which will provide expertise, carry out research and training actions in...
Moving Towards Zero Pollution In Europe
What is pollution and how does it affect us and the environment? Europe is taking action to reduce pollution and, as part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission put forward...
Mediterranean Basin Facing Irreversible Environmental Damage, Warns new UNEP Report
Rising inequality, biodiversity loss, the growing impact of climate change and unrelenting pressure on natural resources could lead to irreversible environmental damage in the Mediterranean basin, according to a new report by...
Countries Raise the Sails on Offshore Renewables Sector
Offshore renewables, including offshore wind, wave, tidal, ocean thermal, and floating solar PV, will witness substantial growth in capacity over the next decade and play an essential role in the global energy...
Impact of COVID-19 on People’s Livelihoods, Their Health and Our Food Systems
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social...
The Duke of Cambridge Has Just Launched the Earthshot Prize
The Duke of Cambridge launched a multi-million-pound environmental prize on Thursday, teaming up with celebrities including footballer Dani Alves and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to launch a prize aimed at tackling the...
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...
Renewables Could Cover More Than One-Third of Energy Demand in CESEC
Within ten years, the economies of Central and South Eastern Europe could cover 34 percentage of their rising energy demand cost-effectively with renewables, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency...
Humans Destroyed an Ecosystem the Size of Mexico in just 13 years
Between 2000 and 2013, Earth lost an area of undisturbed ecosystems roughly the size of Mexico.
That's the mind-melting finding of a new study published in One Earth and the researchers say it...
These Stackable Blocks Could Keep Coal Plants Running, Emissions-Free
As climate change worsens, the future of fossil fuel jobs and infrastructure is uncertain. But a new energy storage technology invented in Australia could enable coal-fired power stations to run entirely emissions-free.
The...