One World – One Environment – One Network
Communities across the Greater Miami Area in southern Florida have launched a collaborative urban resilience strategy that addresses issues such as sea level rise, mobility and affordable housing. The Resilient305 Strategy is a collaboration...
New research shows that climate change has already affected production of the world’s top 10 crops – barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat. And some regions and countries...
Environmental impact organisation CDP has released its first-ever ranking on cities’ actions to cut emissions and set climate strategies. Of the 596 cities ranked, 43 scored an ‘A’. Barcelona, Cape Town, Hong Kong, London,...
Megacities can embrace eight straightforward ideas to make themselves more sustainable and more livable. Thirty-three so-called megacities – think Cairo, London and Tokyo – are home to 54 per cent of the world’s population....
New research reveals that ambitious efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions could boost the GDP growth of poorer countries over the next 30 years. Published in the journal Climatic Change, the study shows that...
New York City aims to reduce its emissions by nearly 30 per cent by 2030. One way it plans to achieve this is by banning inefficient all-glass buildings that waste energy. In a global...
The world is running out of time to achieve the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said recently. “Climate change is ravaging the planet… staggering numbers of children and...
A carbon market in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is distributing revenues to farmworkers rather than landowners. Writing in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Dartmouth College researchers said the approach in the Brazilian province of Acre...
Technology giant Microsoft is imposing big costs on itself for emitting greenhouse gases in an effort to accelerate its sustainability goals. John Dyer reports. Microsoft is nearly doubling its internal carbon tax to $15...
Rapid urbanisation is leading cities to divert water from the countryside to quench the thirst of their growing urban populations — and it is putting rural regions at risk of drought. Better urban planning...
New research from Northwestern University shows that electric cars improve overall air quality and lower carbon emissions – even when the electricity is produced by combustion sources. The study looked at the differences in...
Coral reproduction on the Great Barrier Reef has fallen 89 per cent after repeated bleaching from global warming in 2016 and 2017, finds Australian researchers. The damage caused to the Great Barrier Reef by...
This year’s Global SDG Awards went to 17 companies around the world. The awards celebrate private-sector leadership in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. John Dyer reports. Women and children in Africa...
Seville-based Real Betis Balompié has joined the UN’s Climate Neutral Now initiative. It is the first time a top-tier Spanish “La Liga” football club has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and compensate...
The 89th edition of the Geneva International Motor Show took place from 7-17 March, 2019 at the Palexpo. Recent years have seen many motor shows promising electric concepts, but the range of electric production...
Even if the Paris Agreement goals are met, winter temperatures in the Arctic are set to rise 3 to 5 degrees Celsius by 2050, finds a new report by UN Environment. The outlook is...
UN head António Guterres said that the youth activists who took to the streets in climate action demonstrations worldwide on Friday can change the world. Writing in an opinion piece for The Guardian, UN...
Organic farming has long held great promise for sustainability. But critics have argued that organic farming takes up too much land compared to agriculture that uses chemicals and genetically modified seeds. Organic farming produces...
A re-evaluation of the health risks associated with air pollution shows an unexpected high mortality risk, especially due to cardiovascular diseases. Air pollution is clearly underestimated as a health hazard, notwithstanding the heated discussion...
The small Central American nation of Costa Rica has launched one of the most ambitious decarbonization plans in the world. John Dyer reports. “We will be an example to the world that it is...
