Serving up sustainable food
Along with a vow to return to exercise, upping personal intake of fruit and vegetables tops the list of New Year’s resolutions for many....
2020, one of three warmest years on record
The COVID-19 pandemic was not the only long-term crisis the world will remember from 2020. In terms of climate change, the year was also...
Step up action and adapt to ‘new climate reality’-Report
Though countries have made progress in planning for climate change adaptation, there are significant financing shortfalls in getting them to the stage where they provide real...
Guterres: COVID-19 recovery offers ‘chance to change course’
The process of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic offers the chance to change course, and put humanity on a path on which it is...
The plan to map every coral reef on Earth – from space
In October 2020, Australian scientists found a detached coral reef skyscraper on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometres wide— that...
Meeting the global phosphorus challenge will deliver food security and reduce pollution
“It is unacceptable that hunger is on the rise at a time when the world wastes more than 1 billion tonnes of food every...
Crafting a new relationship between people and planet in 2021
“Both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are crises that can only be addressed by everyone together – as part of a transition to...
Planet-warming trend continues: 2020 closes hottest decade on record
As 2020 draws to a close, it leaves in its wake the warmest decade on record and one of the three hottest years ever...
Viet Nam and the WEF Launch Partnership to Tackle Plastic Pollution
Viet Nam’s leading environmental policy-makers, experts, business leaders, local and international organizations today endorsed an action platform, which aims to help Viet Nam dramatically...
World could lose coral reefs by end of century
Every one of the world’s coral reefs could bleach by the end of the century, unless there are drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, the...