How to create a sense of urgency around sustainability and climate action
Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is still possible — and getting there will take clear but optimistic messaging.
Source: www.greenbiz.com
Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is still possible — and getting there will take clear but optimistic messaging.
Source: www.greenbiz.com
For decades, collaborations and partnerships have been a fundamental part of the sustainable business toolkit, enabling companies to do together what none of them can easily do alone. Over the years, those collaborations seem to have grown in lockstep with the profession of sustainability itself. Scores of such partnerships — some well-known, others flying under the radar — focus on any number of areas…
The Sustainable City, an eco-friendly housing development in Dubai, has installed a new electronic waste (e-waste) collection point in the community. The 24-hour e-waste drop-off station is built by Efate, an Emirati company involved in electronic and electrical waste management. Residents and the public can drop their used electronics at this station, where they will be collected and taken to a recycling facility and separated. Electronics in working condition will be donated to charity. Efate says it will also attempt to refurbish and repair items whenever possible and hand them out for free to those in need. After disassembly, useful components that contain vital raw materials are reused in manufacturing new products while unserviceable parts are crushed without causing any harmful emissions, it adds.
The loss of biodiversity continues at an alarming rate despite decades of research and international policies setting out clear goals in the area. In an article published this week in Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists including researchers from McGill identified seven key…
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Discover Stéphanie and Pierre’s feedback from their one month bike journey around the Mediterranean looking at circular economy solutions.
A reform to the UK’s Producer Responsibility Obligation (PRO) framework and Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) system would accelerate the shift to a circular economy more effectively than a ‘latte levy’, Costa’s energy & environment manager Oliver Rosevear has claimed.