More: Environment
Resource experts call for new strategy to build better cities
As urban areas around the world continue to grow, cities are placing an increasingly heavy burden on our environment. Policymakers should therefore treat resource...
How China’s ban of plastic waste imports can help us beat pollution
When China decided to ban imports of plastic waste at the end of last year, it left major exporters of plastic waste unprepared. According...
Kazakhstan Launches Online Platform for Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gases
An online platform for monitoring, reporting and verifying emission sources and greenhouse gases (GHG) was officially launched today by the Ministry of Energy of...
Conserving Iran and Iraq’s wetlands
There’s growing awareness in the Islamic Republic of Iran that wetlands are valuable and sustain livelihoods.
Ramsar, “the gem of northern Iran”, is the town...
Maldives’ Wetlands Help Fight Climate Change
The lighthouse stands guard over the wetlands. Perched at one end of Koattey, it was built by the British who had a military base...
Using Digital Tools to Transform Transportation
At Transforming Transportation, an international forum at the World Bank headquarters in January 2018, participants took a close look at the potentially enormous impact...
Environmental Peacebuilding Researchers Receive Prestigious Al-Moumin Award
Shared environmental interests and cooperative action can be used to build trust, establish shared identities, and transform conflict into peace. Fifteen years ago, Ken...
Mapping the devastation of Somalia’s drought
Over the past 25 years, Somalia has experienced a cycle of protracted droughts, culminating in the most recent one in 2016 and 2017, when...
Bamako Convention: Preventing Africa from becoming a dumping ground for toxic wastes
African nations have long been at the center of incidents involving hazardous waste dumping. From the leaking barrels of toxic waste in Koko, Nigeria...
The weight of cities
How do we prepare for the doubling of the global urban population by 2050? By dramatically rethinking urbanism and its governance. That means designing...