Advancing ESG Initiatives in Africa for a Sustainable Future
On 17th October 2023, in the bustling city of Johannesburg, a significant event took place that could shape the future of business practices in...
Climate-Induced Terrorism — the New Global Business Risk
By Matt Ince
While countries around the world struggle to meet the manifold challenges posed by climate change, there are those who would use the...
Sustainability in Retail: How to Build a Green Supply Chain
By Indiana Lee
As consumers grow more eco-conscious, sustainability has emerged as one of the primary goals across most industries. In a recent Global Consumer...
Paris Olympics: With 365 Days to Go, Will This Mega-Event Clinch a Sustainability Gold...
By Jannsen Santana
Mega-events such as the Coachella Music Festival, the pilgrimages to Mecca and the World Cup have become increasingly prominent in contemporary times, yet we often neglect to...
Turning the Housing Crisis Around: How a Circular Economy Can Give Us Affordable, Sustainable...
By Ralph Horne, Julie Lawson, and Louise Dorignon
Households across Australia are struggling with soaring energy and housing costs and a lack of housing options....
Children Have a Skewed View of the Natural World – But It Doesn’t Have...
By Kate Howlett
Children’s books and TV shows are full of animals, but how well do kids really know the natural world?
The vast majority of...
Leaving Our Planet Better Than We Found it: The Role of Finance
Interview with Marie-Anne Vincent, VP of Climate Finance
The indirect emissions of a financial institution’s investments can be over 700 times larger than those from...
Ecological Doom-Loops: Why Ecosystem Collapses May Occur Much Sooner Than Expected – New Research
By John Dearing, Gregory Cooper, and Simon Willcock
Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert,...
How a 400 Million Year Old Fossil Changes Our Understanding of Mathematical Patterns in...
By Sandy Hetherington and Holly-Anne Turner
If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of...
Plastic Recycling Is Failing – Here’s How the World Must Respond
By Cressida, Keiron and Stephanie
Recycling was once considered the obvious solution to the excessive amount of new (or virgin) plastic produced each year. This...
Food Prices Are Rising but Farmers’ Profits Are Still Small – Here’s Why
By Lisa Jack
More than 60 food industry representatives came together at a recent Downing Street summit to discuss the UK food crisis. It was billed as...
Slow Fashion: An Alternative Concept to Common Production and Consumption Practices in Fashion
By Leah Marie Gonse and Michael Palocz-Andresen
The fashion industry operates on a mostly unsustainable business model that focuses mainly on growth of sales and...
Revolutionary Changes in Transportation, from Electric Vehicles to Ride Sharing, Could Slow Global Warming...
By Alan Jenn
Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of...
Electric Vehicles are now Trending. But Where Can We Charge Them?
By Sunil Johal
Canada is on the road to transformation in mobility. The federal government recently announced its zero-emission vehicle sales target, which requires all light-duty...
Was Earth Already Heating Up, or Did Global Warming Reverse a Long-Term Cooling Trend?
By Ellie Broadman and Darrell Kaufman
Over the past century, the Earth’s average temperature has swiftly increased by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The evidence...
The Future of Flight in a Net-Zero-Carbon World: 9 Scenarios, Lots of Sustainable Biofuel
By Candelaria Bergero and Steve Davis
Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. It’s an ambitious goal that will require...
Turkey-Syria Earthquakes: a Seismologist Explains What Has Happened
By Jenny Jenkins
An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border with Syria. Data from seismometers which measure shaking...
As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs Could Undermine Climate Efforts
By Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, Gautam Jain and Sagatom Saha
Rising trade tensions between the U.S. and the European Union, two of the most important...
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values
Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG
Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
Here’s How Your Cup of Coffee Contributes to Climate Change
By Luciano Rodrigues Viana and Charles Marty
Global coffee consumption has been increasing steadily for almost 30 years. With a daily average consumption of 2.7 cups...
Five Options for Restoring Global Biodiversity After the UN Agreement
By Henrik Svedäng
To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada,...
Where Mauna Loa’s Lava Is Coming From – And Why Hawaii’s Volcanoes Are Different...
By Gabi Laske
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption...
COP27: One Big Breakthrough but Ultimately an Inadequate Response to the Climate Crisis
By Matt McDonald
For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as...
It’s The Big Issue Of Cop27 Climate Summit: Poor Nations Face A $1 Trillion...
By Jacqueline Peel
The costs of climate-related disasters are growing and the poorest countries are bearing the brunt of impacts, from the unprecedented floods in...
The Simple Rule of Sustainability Governance: Keep Calm and Categorise your Challenges
By Ron Soonieus and Dave Young
Corporate boards must urgently organise themselves for strategic reflection on sustainability and shorter-term oversight of practices and reporting. The...
The Financial Imperative of Climate Resilience: Beyond ESG
By Lara Alvarez
Climate-risk exposure of financial institutions remains high
There is a growing recognition, particularly amongst asset owners, lenders and insurers, that financial institutions own...
Indigenous Defenders Stand Between Illegal Roads and Survival of the Amazon Rainforest – Brazil’s...
By David S. Salisbury
The Ashéninka woman with the painted face radiated a calm, patient confidence as she stood on the sandy banks of the...
What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change, in its Own Words
By Benjamin Franta
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of...
2022’s Supercharged Summer of Climate Extremes: How Global Warming and La Niña Fueled Disasters...
By Kevin Trenberth
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in...
Russia/Ukraine grain export deal promises major benefits for poor countries. If it holds
By Wandile Sihlobo
If Russia keeps to the deal it has signed with Ukraine allowing for the resumption of grain exports, much needed relief will be...
Climate Change: The IPCC has Served Its Purpose, So Do We Still Need It?
By Ilan Kelman
In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its first assessment report on the state of climate change science. The synthesis of...
African Cities Can Do More to Protect Children from Climate Change
By Rongedzayi Fambasayi
Six in 10 people will be living in cities by 2030. This is concerning. Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet...
Five Ways the New Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy for Schools in England Doesn’t...
By Elizabeth Rushton and Lynda Dunlop
The UK government has introduced a new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools. However, our research shows that it does...
Climate Change: Greener Lifestyles Linked to Greater Happiness – In Both Rich and Poor...
By Stuart Capstick
The idea that being green means sacrifice and going without was epitomised by Boris Johnson’s denigration of the “hair shirt-wearing, tree-hugging, mung bean-eating eco...
Carbon-Free Transportation Saves Money
By Dr. Daniel Sperling
President Biden and the European Union are proposing to spend trillions of dollars to decarbonize our economy – with a special...
How Poetry Can Help Us Understand the Urgency of the Climate Crisis
By Christina Thatcher
I discovered Ellen Bass’ poem, Birdsong from My Patio, during the first UK lockdown. My garden hedge was stuffed with sparrows who seemed...
Two Hundred Years Of Talking About Climate Change
By Joseph Mazur
Back in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student at MIT, there were a few weeks of cafeteria conversations among earth...
How Students Can Use Storytelling to Bring the Dangers of Climate Change to Life
By Katie Persons, Florence Halstead, and Lisa Jones
With the stark “code red” warnings from the world’s climate experts in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental...
Sustainable Mobility after the Pandemic
By Emma Saxena and Michael Palocz-Andresen
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in frame conditions that enabled individuals to create new environmental-friendly habits. These hold the potential to...
Geopolitical Consequences of a Sustainable and Circular Economy
Circular economy or CE is now the hot topic that everyone seems to be talking about. It has millions of followers who go on...
As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt
By Katharine M. Donato, Amanda Carrico, and Jonathan M. Gilligan
Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise...
What the World can Learn from Clean Energy Transitions in India, China and Brazil
By Radhika Khosla, Ajinkya Shrish Kamat, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti
If the world is to transition to a climate-compatible future, much will turn on new innovations...
All You Need to Know About Fume Extraction
The generation of fumes and fine particles is mostly caused by welding and other processes of metals that can be harmful to health. This...
Agriculture, Sustainable Development, and Government Policy in Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Bandung Conference (1955) in Indonesia was the first large meeting of leaders from newly independent countries from Asia and Africa,...
Why Fixing the Planet is also about Seizing Business Opportunities
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Dr Jacques Bughin and Yuhui Xiong
Companies’ efforts to become more sustainable can often be driven by regulation or government...
How to cook Christmas dinner in the most environmentally friendly way possible
By Dr Ximena Schmidt, Dr Christian Reynolds and Sarah Bridle
By now, most of us are aware that much of the food we eat, in...
How Green is your Christmas Tree?
By Professor Ian D. Rotherham
There’s no way around the fact that Christmas has a large carbon footprint, from the travelling we do to the presents...
Children’s Views Should be Taken into Account When Designing Urban Space
By Jenny Wood
Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account. By focusing on...
The Insanity of Sustainability
By Peter Koenig
“Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War” – Plato.
This wisdom is as valid today as it was 2,500 years ago....
A Wake-up Call for the Corporate World
By Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt, Catherine Mitchell, and Jens Weinmann
New regulations and opportunities in the decentralized energy market can be good for the planet and business.
January 2020 was...
The Climate Crisis Dilemma
By Graham Vanbergen
The climate crisis is now changing global finance – Graham Vanbergen asks the question do we want to pay for it now...
Amazonia in Flames – Brazil’s Bolsonaro is a World Criminal – Encouraging Jungle Burning...
By Peter Koenig
On 28 October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil with 55.1% of the vote – and with a gigantic help from...
Water is Life – They are Stealing our Livelihood and We aren’t Even Noticing
By Peter Koenig
Today, 22 March 2018, marks World Water Day. It is also the week, when the 8th World Water Forum (WWF-8) convenes, 18...
Feed the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, Khaled Soufani and Lisa Xiong
One big misconception is that produce grown from nontraditional methods is of lesser quality, and...
Understanding the Sustainable Lifestyle
By Steven Cohen
A sustainable environment and economy are possible only if they provide support to a sustainable lifestyle. This is a way of life...
A 100% Renewables Future: Green Utopia or Planetary Disaster?
By Steffen Böhm
Recent studies suggest that the global advocacy on converting to 100% renewable energy generation by 2050 is feasible. However, as people ignore...
Nuclear Power and Public Fear in the Era of Climate Change
By Scott Montgomery
To discuss nuclear power requires discussion of public anxiety, particularly fear of radiation. Such fear exaggerates levels of actual risk and poses...
Food – Wars and Pharma – Trailblazing the Way to Human Demise
By Peter Koenig
In this article, Peter Koenig connects the dots and sheds light on how food, drugs, and bombs all play together in the...
Immigration, Food Justice and the Fierce Urgency of Now
By Julian Agyeman, Alison Alkon and Sydney Giacalone
Food justice recognises that one’s experience of the food system is determined by and is inseparable from...
Loss and Damage of Climate Change – from Managing Risks to the Politics of...
By Swenja Surminski
With the passing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, efforts to fight the changing climate’s causes and consequences have received increased...
The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading...
By Taylor Ogan and Xiangming Chen
While the world is focusing on if the Chinese government can be a trusted and reliable leader in dealing...
Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change
By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy...
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s...
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...
Brief Considerations on Sustainability and Justice
By François Mancebo
Sustainable development is our major challenge today. What is even more challenging is to achieve both sustainability and social justice. In this...
