One World – One Environment – One Network
A group of scientists has shown that for plants and insects the applied pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially increased between 2004 and 2016. In a paper published in the current issue of Science,...
Worldwide, eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year, despite greater awareness of recycling and the use of disposable plastic. A Norwegian app will soon be able to identify where the...
Researchers have used satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers...
Food production is a complex process involving the monitoring of raw materials, supply chains, market prices and much more besides. Access to smart data can help producers make their processes both greener and more...
Making agriculture climate-neutral has a high cost – which some rich countries might be willing to accept, ETH Zurich researchers find. Emissions of methane and nitrogen oxides from agriculture are Europe’s second most important...
A sustainability scale is now listed directly on the packaging of all Migros brands, rating the various dimensions of sustainability such as animal welfare or climate with 1 to 5 stars. Customers can see...
Engineers at MIT have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags. The team has published their findings in the journal Nature Sustainability. Polyethylene is thin and lightweight, and could keep...
New research published by IUCN reveals that the pandemic has significantly impacted nature conservation around the globe, including job losses among protected area rangers, reduced anti-poaching patrols and environmental protection rollbacks. Conservation efforts in...
An estimated 931 million tonnes of food, or 17% of total food available to consumers in 2019, went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services, according to new UN...
Climate change mitigation is about more than just CO2. So-called “short-lived climate-forcing pollutants” such as soot, methane, and tropospheric ozone all have harmful effects. It is common practice in climate policy to bundle the...
Sulzer has partnered with clothing giant H&M and Worn Again in developing new technology for textile recycling. As more and more fabrics end up in landfills, textile waste is quickly becoming one of society’s...
Activists protesting against environmental injustices around the world suffer from high rates of criminalization, physical violence and murder. This is the result of a study developed by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science...
Clothes shopping has roughly doubled in the last two decades. Affordable fast fashion may be a blessing to the wallet of fashionistas, but it comes at a shockingly large environmental cost. Much attention has...
The Church of England’s investment bodies have joined the UN’s Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, committing themselves to decarbonizing their investments by 2050. The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has added to two new members...
Every time you wash clothes, you are releasing microplastics into the sea, but we know little about the amount and distribution of such material from different types of textile. Research scientists are now working...
Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will be carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 remove from the environment all the carbon the company has ever emitted since it was founded. Global tech...
Sadiq Khan and Bill de Blasio are calling on their fellow mayors of major cities worldwide to join them in divesting their city pension funds from fossil fuel assets. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan...
Research by a San Francisco State University professor indicates that CEOs are more likely to enact social responsibility efforts when they disagree with the White House. A new study by San Francisco State University...
The number of policy and regulatory measures backing green finance has more than doubled since 2015, according to figures released by the UN Environment Agency. The measures database from the UN Environment Agency (UNEP)...
Estée Lauder has become the first major beauty company in the world to sign a virtual power purchase agreement for renewable energy, boosting its renewable electricity footprint in the US and Canada. Global beauty...
