One World – One Environment – One Network
The city of Baltimore voted overwhelmingly last week to ban the privatization of its water and sewerage systems, making it the first large U.S. city to prevent private water companies from taking over this...
A new guide published by InterAcademy Partnership seeks to raise awareness of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals among scientists, policymakers and other leaders and encourage them to get more involved in achieving those goals....
Together with a Norwegian team of scientists, coastal researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht have developed a statistical procedure that will help predict future cod stocks in the Barents Sea. This new method could sustainably improve...
Major multinationals such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and Volvo pledged to reduce marine plastic week when they signed the G7 Ocean Plastics Charter at a meeting of G7 environment ministers, businesses and NGOs in Halifax,...
Governments are being urged to act now to protect younger generations from the immediate and long-term impacts of extreme weather events. The devastating floods in southern India, wildfires in the western United States and...
An analysis by GreenBiz has found that among 35 large development and commercial banks, most were unable to convey their overall climate progress. The transparency of their ‘brown’ investments was in most cases not...
Sustainable urban strategies that focus on providing new green spaces often do so at the expense of social justice. The “just green enough” model instead aims to clean up the environment without sacrificing equity....
The Plastic Bank aims to stop plastic pollution by turning waste into currency. In an interview with the UN’s environment agency, founder and CEO David Katz explains that putting a value on plastic waste...
Some of the world’s most influential institutional investors have launched a five-year, investor-led initiative that seeks to curb emissions from the world’s 100 largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters. The Climate Action 100+ initiative is...
Plastic trash is a rapidly growing environmental problem. But a biodegradable and natural material could replace plastic packaging and eliminate this problem, reports Idun Haugan from Norway. Plastic is in many ways a wonder...
Dutch investors are putting £160 million into a UK renewable energy scheme to help install rooftop solar panels for social housing tenants across England the Wales. A UK initiative to provide some of the...
Clothing giant Primark has launched its first sustainable cotton products using cotton purchased directly from female farmers in India. So far, more than 6,000 farmers have received training through the company’s sustainable cotton programme....
The Church of England made an impressive 17.1% return on investments in 2016. It believes its policy of following strict ethical criteria, not profits, is responsible for its success. Banks and asset managers are...
Multinational clothing retail giant H&M has committed to doubling its energy productivity by 2030. Steps include boosting energy efficiency in stores while reducing the energy used in logistics transport and warehouses. H&M has become...
The Arctic has a serious litter problem: in just ten years, the concentration of marine litter at a deep-sea station in the Arctic Ocean has risen 20-fold. This was recently reported in a study...
Litter is visible everywhere and the majority of citizens are aware of the problem. Yet we live in times where the obvious is not enough. We need to prove with numbers that a problem...
Did you know that a larger number of whales are killed in European waters than by the Japanese whaling fleet? Norwegian whalers killed 1396 minke whales by explosive harpoons in 2014 and 2015. Adding...
The 18th Swiss Economic Forum, which took place in Interlaken last week, was opened by Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann under the theme “Agility – a success factor in times of change.” In his speech,...
The Indonesian vacation paradise of Bali is at risk of suffocating from garbage. Two teenagers decided to fight back. They launched a campaign against plastic pollution and went on a hunger strike. The governor...
At our next Green Drinks on Monday 30 May 2016, we warmly welcome GES member Oliver Marchand from Carbon Delta. The Zürich based equity research firm specializes in identifying and analysing the climate change...
