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5 Reasons Why a Healthy Ocean is Linked to Human Rights
We live on a blue planet, with oceans and seas covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Oceans feed us, regulate our climate, and generate most of the oxygen we...
Seven Tips for an Earth-Friendly Holiday Season
Every day we make choices about the world we want to create. As we plan and provide this holiday season, we can choose to be more friendly to the planet, our shared...
Diy Wind Generator
The flexibility of renewable energy sources RESD facilitates global energy transition. So solar panels are installed on vast roofs of big companies and on small roofs of houses and buildings, while wind...
Homemade Biodegradable Cigarette Filter as a Solution to the Global Problem
There is an expression “the children of today are the adults of tomorrow,” and the tricky students of the High School Dušan Trivunac Dragoš from Svrljig, happen to prove it is not...
Why The Global Fight to Tackle Food Waste Has Only Just Begun
Our global food systems are having a profound impact on human and planetary health. They are responsible for 70 percent of the water extracted from nature, account for up to one-third of...
The Role of Resource Extraction in a “Circular” World
If the latest major report on global warming makes one thing clear, it’s that humanity must transition to a low-carbon economy, and fast.
To do that, many countries are embracing what’s known as...
The Ražanj Municipality – Oasis of Ecology
Clean streets and well-arranged public spaces, empty garbage cans, recycling dumpster set up, special containers for medical waste ... Benches at parks invite visitors to have a break and enjoy in carefully...
Rapid Shift to Evolving Renewable Energy Technologies Poses New Waste Challenge for Europe
A rapid transition to renewable energy is necessary if Europe is to achieve its climate objectives. Developing the infrastructure to enable this change will require substantial resources and generate large volumes of...
How composting can reduce our impact on the planet
Every year, across the world, 1,3 billion tones of food is either lost or wasted, says the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Food Waste Index.
With world hunger on this rise due to the...
New Research Shows Food System is Responsible for a Third of Global Anthropogenic Emissions
The world’s food system is responsible for a third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to new research by a team led by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and...
Sustainability is in the Best Interests of Business
We are in the midst of the intensifying triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste. A triple crisis that threatens human health, prosperity, equality and...
World Set to Miss Environment-Related Sustainable Development Goals – UN report
Despite progress in key environmental areas such as clean water, sanitation, clean energy, forest management and waste, countries are still living unsustainably and are on course to miss the environmental dimensions of...
How Rivals Can Work Together to Stop Plastic Waste
Rivals – traditionally - tend not to work together. This approach can help companies stay distinct as one-of-a-kind innovators and maintain competitive advantages. It can even protect consumers’ interests. Legislation exists across...
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...
When Mushrooms and Packaging Cross Paths
To the discovery of this material that riveted attention, the team of the White Lemur company has taken the back road. Before plunging themselves into innovations, they had been designing solutions for...
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...