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...
In Norway, the closure of the Russian plant was called a Christmas Gift
A Russian Christmas gift for Norway was called the closure of a metallurgical plant in the town of Nikel, Murmansk region. This opinion was...
Vietnam can learn from COVID-19 crisis to address its environmental challenge
Vietnam is expected to grow by almost 3 percent in 2020 while the world economy is expected to contract at least by 4 percent...
Smart new technologies can play a vital role in addressing plastic pollution crisis
From source to sea, our waters are contaminated by a plastics scourge. A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International...
Plastic clean-up brings crocodiles back to Indian river
Crocodiles are not Sneha Shahi’s favourite animal, but every time she sees one now she smiles. And she sees plenty.
Sneha led a campaign to...
Bringing recycling to Kuwait
Per capita, Kuwait is among the wealthiest countries in the world. But, despite having the means, it has yet to embrace modern waste management...
World Bank approves First Amazon Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Program
The World Bank Board of Directors approved today the US$200 million First Amazonas Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Programmatic DPF.
The project will support fiscal reforms...