Pretending environmental protection and economic justice are separate public policy problems will prevent us from ever achieving either.
The Our Common Future report (Brundtland et al., 1987)…
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and Masen have signed two memoranda of understanding to support the development of renewable energy in member countries of the IDB in Africa.
The Moroccan…
A new sustainability report has found that global sustainable investment is on the rise.
The Global Sustainable Investment Review 2018, now in its fourth edition, has found that global sustainable…
The Danish billionaires who are now Scotland’s largest private landowners are trying to restore the Highlands for generations to come, one of their closest advisers has said.
Tim Kirkwood said that…
The European energy sector stands in front of a gargantuan task of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Apart from the many technical challenges for achieving this ambitious goal, there is also a social…
When we think about schools, we first come up with subjects such as math, science, reading, and writing. However, these subjects, while important to success, are not all that schools teach. Schools…
Kenya has partnered with China for the construction of Friendship City which is expected to start late this year at a cost of US $2bn. The two firms involved; Chinese’s Damei Investment Company and…
It takes Habiba Ali at least a three-hour drive to get to her customers – what energy experts would call ‘the last mile’. When she sets off from her base in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, it’s usually…
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74% of existing coal plants cost more to operate last year than replacing them with new local wind and solar power, according to a report released on Monday from Vibrant Clean Energy…
Title Lake Chad’s shrinking waters
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Copyright contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA (For Landsat image: USGS/ESA), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO…
This year Sustainability Summit 2019 will focus on the introduction of state-of-the-art technologies and solutions in addition to the latest national and international policies and regulations in…
Similar to a forest ecosystem, zero-waste cleaning systems produce nothing that can’t be reused and repurposed. Waste to one system is food for another. This concept is inspiring to many people…
UN Climate Change News, Accra, 20 March 2019 – The high-level segment of the Africa Climate Week in Accra, Ghana, got firmly underway this morning with the official opening ceremony at the capital’s…
UN Climate Change News, 21 March 2019 - Today marks a special day in the history of global climate action: It marks the day when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) first came into…
With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than 5 million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost entirely reliant on petroleum-based fuels. Unlike…
Sustainable Built Environment Community and Colleagues,
GORD is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th edition of Global Sustainability Assessment System GSAS 2019.
GORD is committed to…
SWITCH to Green initiatives aim to guide governments towards sustainability by unleashing access to green financing, policies and standards, and eco-entrepreneurship.
One of the regional…