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The four scenarios in the WEF’s 2017 food report paint a bleak picture. But there are better ways.
As Australia looks to expand the coal industry at home, it’s also ramping up regional diplomacy aimed at avoiding condemnation by those at the front line of climate change.
Mangroves are superheroes on both land and sea, storing carbon and providing protection for coasts.
Scientific and technological innovations and economic policies promoting growth at all costs have created a consumption and production vortex on a collision course with the Earth system.
If we want any future for wild populations of the numerous species traded for pets, exhibits and use in medicines, drastic action is needed to control their international and domestic trade.
Wetlands management is vital but sweeping statements about their universal value may do more harm than good.
Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
We need Mars-level thinking to solve our energy and climate problems here on Earth.
The region faces some of the world’s highest rates of habitat loss, as well as direct over-exploitation of species.
In the Pacific region, customary laws could create problems when implementing international law associated with climate change.
Given that cities may be home to 80% of humanity by the end of the century, they can only be sustainable if eco-friendliness is one of their core features.
In Switzerland, specific and often costly environmental policies are put to test through direct democracy.
The government has decided to protect vast new expanses of land and sea. But bad planning and lax regulations are likely to limit, or even undermine, this conservation effort.
From citizens who sit on the boards of energy companies to neighbourhoods that help fund local wind farms, community action is critical to the environmental movement.
China has been very quiet in negotiations over fisheries regulations for the central Arctic Ocean. Why is the country’s behaviour there so dramatically different from what it pursues in Antarctica?
Future population growth is expected to take place almost entirely in cities. We won’t fight climate change without them.
Are high levels of violence and displacement in Central America and Mexico caused by natural resource exploitation?
Phasing out greenhouse gas emissions entirely by mid-century is possible, and promising trends are emerging. But the next five to ten years will be the real test of whether we can make that happen.
Negotiations regarding a legal framework for the oceans – an area covering roughly half the Earth’s surface – are being dominated by OECD members.
All is not lost for the climate with the election of Donald Trump.
India’s experiment with bio-toilets could change the way we dispose of our waste and help our rivers.
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
Meet Bhokal, who has already lost so much due to environmental disasters, and who needs the Paris agreement to be a success.