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European Union
What we can learn from Europe's response to the COVID-19 crisis
Europe came together to save citizens, businesses and member countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with bold action.
Africa
How Bamboo Bikes Are Paving The Way For Sustainable Transport
The Great Reset
How we’re resetting our future state
COVID-19 presents an opportunity to work together towards a fairer, greener future. Here's how the World Economic Forum's YGLs are driving the great reset.
Plastics and the Environment
Turning trash into treasure: how Australia plans to recycle its way to recovery after COVID-19
The Australian government has invested in a fund to increase capacity to deal with waste. Ten thousand jobs could be created by using the transition to a circular economy as part of the e...
Sustainable Development
How COVID-19 can be the Great Reset toward global sustainability
Social entrepreneurs work collaboratively with many people left behind by existing systems to find innovative solutions to their needs.
Climate Change
Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
New research develops the 'equilibrium climate sensitivity' – a measure of how much the world can be expected to warm for a doubling of CO2 above pre-industrial levels.
COVID-19
Solar keeps the lights on for rural Kenyans during pandemic blackouts
As the pandemic and extreme weather disrupt electricity supplies for Kenyans, alternative energy sources like solar power are providing sustainable options.
Climate Change
Rising CO2 levels could have 'very severe' global impact, according to the latest research
A study looks at how much global average temperatures will increase by in the long-term following a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations.
Plastics and the Environment
How Earth’s plastic pollution problem could look by 2040
New research shows that plastic entering the marine environment is set to double by 2040.
Plastics and the Environment
These MIT chemists are making tough plastics easier to recycle
Chemists at MIT have developed a method to modify thermoset plastics that allows them to be more easily broken down without compromising their mechanical strength.
The Great Reset
The great reset must place social justice at its centre
New institutions need to actively intervene to build a future where people of all racial, social, gender and economic backgrounds can excel.
Infrastructure
Why COVID-19 stimulus needs to account for future infrastructure risks
Coronavirus stimulus measures should focus on projects that not only grow the economy, but also anticipate the impact of future risks like climate change.
Forests
These Andean communities are helping restore the world's highest forests
Indigenous peoples are planting millions of native Polylepis trees, which are vital to the Amazon and crucial in the fight against climate change and deforestation.
Plastics and the Environment
Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions
Worldwide emissions of methane have hit the “highest levels on record”, according to an international team of scientists.
Sustainable Development
COVID-19: How a green recovery could create millions of jobs
From adopting smarter farming to slashing fossil fuel subsidies and rethinking urban land use, green investment could create 395 million jobs and $10 trillion in new business opportunitie...