Sponsored content: Thank You for the Rain, a film about a Kenyan farmer’s struggle, has helped to catalyse change nationally and internationally.
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Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the question of ethical responsibilities across decades and centuries. By Astra Taylor.
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Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the…
WHAT: United Nations Global Compact 20th Anniversary Leaders Summit
WHEN: 15 - 16 June
WHERE: Virtual summit (registration details below)
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2020 – German Chancellor…
The effects of global heating are in evidence everywhere across the islands of Antarctica – from penguin colonies to melting glaciers. The Guardian’s global environment editor Jonathan Watts…
Unusually strong winds for June fanned the flames of 10 wildfires around Los Angeles County Monday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
The largest of the blazes was the Equestrian Fire in…
World Environment Day sees the launch of “Race to Zero” that will run up to COP26 -- an international campaign for a healthy, resilient zero carbon recovery.
UN Global Compact and UKSSD call on UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson to build back better after COVID-19.
In a letter coordinated by the UN Global Compact Network UK and UKSSD, leaders of over 150…
The public is being lulled into a false sense of security about the UK’s increasingly extreme weather patterns by news and weather reports that present long, hot, dry spells as good news, according…
Climate change deniers have spread countless posts and videos which contain misinformation. It may appear as if these are people who are simply ill-informed about the issue.
However, there is, in…
The influential French thinker explains the politics of the Gaia principle, the problems of post-truth and how coronavirus gives us a model for spreading ideas.
UN environment chief and economist warn human wealth depends on nature’s health.
The coronavirus pandemic is an “SOS signal for the human enterprise”, according to a leading economist and the United…
Bonn/ Mountain View, 5 June 2020 - Today, on World Environment Day, UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Google Arts & Culture Lab residency program announce “Heartbeat of the Earth”, a series of…
The European Green Deal is the best way to make the real changes Europe needs to be able to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, writes a group of 700 elected representatives and citizens from all…
Industries that build on the region’s existing competitive advantages can help with boosting employment, diversification, technological sophistication, food security, non-oil exports and…
A new theory, from bottleneck to breakthrough, posits that urbanization, falling fertility and the end of extreme poverty could result in a much greener world than the one we inherited.
The…
THE CONTEXT
The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies,…
New Jersey has invested in the future health of the planet by making sure the next generation of adults knows how human activity has had a deleterious effect on the planet.