Tennis world goes green
All four of the world’s Grand Slam tennis tournaments are joining the UN’s Sports for Climate Action Framework. The US Open, Wimbledon, Tennis Australia and the French Open have all announced that they are...
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Space junk: the next green frontier
First it was about preventing trash from ending up in landfills, more recently it has been about tackling the waste in our oceans. Now, efforts are underway to stop space debris from orbiting our...
Starbucks to roll out greener cups, strawless lids
Coffee giant Starbucks has unveiled several new plans for sustainable coffee, including greener cups, fewer straws and the opportunity to digitally trace your coffee’s journey from seed to cup. According to a Starbucks press...
Strategic lessons from toilet paper
Toilet paper is destroying North American forests – and with it, resources that are vital to the continent’s Indigenous Peoples. John Dyer reports. Environmentalists recently took aim at toilet paper. In a report entitled...
UK is worst violator of e-waste exports, says watchdog group
Many EU countries are illegally exporting electronic waste to Africa and Asia, according to a two-year study by the global environmental watchdog organisation Basel Action Network (BAN). BAN has released the findings of a...
Looking back, looking forward
The beginning of the new year marks a time to look back and learn lessons for the future. John Dyer reports from Boston. In the world of sustainability, 2018 was a year of ominous...
Baltimore makes history by banning water privatization
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...
To achieve SDGs, involve science academies
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....
Calculating the future of cod in the Barents Sea
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...
Big brands back ocean plastic waste pledge
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,...
UNICEF issues urgent call to save children from climate change
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...
Banks not transparent enough for climate progress
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 cities are about equity, too
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....
Fighting pollution by turning waste into currency
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...
Investors launch new initiative targeting top 100 emitters
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...
Nature´s own replacement for plastic
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...
UK social housing tenants to get solar roofs, thanks to Dutch money
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...
Primark sustainable cotton products hit store shelves
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....
Church of England shows value of impact investing
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...
H&M commits to bold energy targets
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...
