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The Conference Board Sustainability Watch is a monthly series of webcasts that offer insights from the latest research by The Conference Board Sustainability Center and experts and practitioners from some of the leading sustainable companies.
Podčetrtek: how tidy and green! My first thought when arriving at this community in the very east of Slovenia, near the Croatian border. Passing the town’s famous thermal baths, at the monastery/castle we meet Boštjan Misja, the town’s chief tourism developer and marketer.
It seems that people are slowly but surely beginning to understand the terrible impact our actions can have on earth. And one of the biggest and most environmentally harmful human marks we have made is with plastic.
Speedling, which grows ornamentals and vegetable plugs, has always focused on using its resources efficiently. Now, these efforts are paying off.
The circular economy concept can ensure sustainable development in the economy, society and environment.
Approximately one-third of long rivers remain free-flowing, and rivers face a range of ongoing and future threats. In response, there is a heightened call for actions to reverse the freshwater biodiversity crisis, including through formal global targets for protection. The Aichi Biodiversity Targets called for the protection of 17% of inland water areas by 2020. Here, we examine the levels and spatial patterns of protection for a specific type of inland water area—rivers designated as free-flowing. Out of a global total of 11.7 million kilometers of rivers, 1.9 million kilometers (16%) are within protected areas and 10.1 million kilometers are classified as free-flowing, with 1.7 million kilometers of the free-flowing kilometers (17%) within protected areas.