Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Ambassador (Retd.) Shafqat Kakakhel, Dr Dechen Tsering, Director of UNEP’s Asia Pacific office, Colleagues and friends, My deep thanks to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, or SDPI, for the invitation to talk to you about what we need to do, as a globalContinue Reading
Nigerian-born Robinson Sylvanus has been fishing along the coast of Limbe in Cameroon’s Southwest Region for the past 20 years. Each time he returns from the sea, he faces the challenge of pulling out his canoe from the seashore. That is because of the various plastics that litter the beach.Continue Reading
Newswise — Each year, more than 380 million tons of plastics are produced globally. Less than 10% of these plastics are reused or recycled, leading to significant accumulation and waste, not to mention the obvious environmental implications. A large fraction of plastic is made from polyolefins, which are hard toContinue Reading
DAVOS, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Securing the world’s global freshwater ecosystems, under increasing threat from climate change, population growth and consumer demand, has become more critical than ever. To tackle this escalating crisis, UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, in partnership with global conglomerate HCL Group, has announced 10Continue Reading
January 9, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Julie Encausse, founder and chief executive of the bioplastic start-up Marea, and Jan Eric Jessen, head of research and development at Algalif, work at the Algalif production facility on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. (Heida Helgadottir for The Washington Post) Comment on this story CommentContinue Reading
In recent years, Olympia lawmakers passed ambitious laws intended to largely eliminate by midcentury most state greenhouse gas emissions from human-caused sources. In the new session underway Jan. 9, legislators shaping the environmental agenda will be focused on follow-through. They need to decide how to spend money raised through puttingContinue Reading
Bubbles stream furiously behind Frank Hurd as he gently parts the curtains of giant kelp. Green and gold ribbons reach upwards through the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean towards the sun. Hurd, a marine biologist with environmental organisation the Nature Conservancy, is diving in a kelp forest off AnacapaContinue Reading
The Second Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC 2022) focussed on bamboo and rattan as nature-based solutions to replace plastics, reduce plastic pollution and help reach net-zero emissions. UNEP’s Jyoti Mathur-Filipp and UNEP-WCMC’s Han Meng jointly presented the keynote speech “Global review: the progress of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plasticContinue Reading
Hopes that the COP15 Biodiversity Summit would usher a new era of mandatory nature risk and dependency reporting at companies received a blow this morning, after the first official draft of the new global pact for nature stopped short of calling on countries to make nature-related disclosures a legal obligation.Continue Reading
As chemical recyclers try and tackle a mammoth industry pain point—hard-to-recycle plastics—they should partner with materials recovery facilities (MRFs). Together they can strengthen the plastics recycling system while mutually benefiting their respective businesses; or so that is a takeway of a recent Closed Loop Partners report. Indiana-based chemical recycler BrightmarkContinue Reading
