OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 13Jan
Ocean Wise has produced the most comprehensive study to date on Arctic Ocean microplastics. And the results are troubling.
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OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 13Jan
Ocean Wise has produced the most comprehensive study to date on Arctic Ocean microplastics. And the results are troubling.
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Terra Carta’ – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector.

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 12Jan
As part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, HRH The Prince of Wales, announces the ‘Terra Carta’ – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector.
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The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge (BLOOMBERG CITIES NETWORK/BLOOMBERG PHILANTROPIES)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 12Jan
The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.
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A One Planet Summit for Biodiversity

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 12Jan
France is organizing, in cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank, a 'One Planet Summit' for biodiversity on January 11, 2021 in Paris. It will be an opportunity to raise the level of ambition of the international community on the protection of nature, while responding to the new questions raised by the crisis.
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EVENT FROM STIMSON CENTER: Beyond the Horizon: Outlining Risks and Opportunities in 2024 (stimson event)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 11Jan
Join us as Stimson’s foreign policy experts predict the biggest issues to watch in 2024. Through a series of panel discussions and quickfire examinations, we will highlight the most volatile and urgent issues of the new year, identify meaningful opportunities, and help set the agenda for foreign policy priorities in 2024. January 24, 2024 9:30 - 11:30 AM
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CREATIVE FUTURES from FORD FOUNDATION

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
CREATIVE FUTURES is a series of 40 provocations by thinkers across the spheres of arts and culture, documentary film, and journalism unfolding throughout the fall of 2020.
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Greening the Blue report 2020

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
The 2020 Greening the Blue report -released on 10th December 2020 provides a snapshot of the UN System’s environmental impacts throughout 2019 and the activities underway to reduce them.
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Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, RWI)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
"For the first time in human history, people are collectively modifying the Earth’s environment and ecosystems on a global scale. Some scholars suggest the world is entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which Earth systems are moving into a risky and unstable state as a result of people’s impacts on the environment" says the report.
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NEW REGULATIONS TO REDUCE WASTE PLASTIC DUMPING ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
The Guardian is reporting on an amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal aiming at allowing developing countries to have a say on the waste plastic they receive for recycling. The amendment to the convention will come into force from the 1st of January 2021.It will take few years to see an impact though.
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