environmental sustainability
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Greenwashing enters a $22 trillion debt market, derailing climate goals
Sustainability-linked bonds let companies borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets. A Bloomberg News analysis found those goals are weak.
Meet the activist who wants New York lawmakers to hold the fashion industry to account
Maxine Bédat, founder of the New Standard Institute, is on a mission to reform the fashion industry’s social and environmental toll.
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Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’
Known as agrivoltaics, the technique harvests solar energy twice: where panels have traditionally been used to harness the sun’s rays to generate energy, they are also utilised to provide shade for growing crops, helping to retain moisture in the soil and boosting growth.
In the food system and beyond, plastics are the problem
The co-director of the Peak Plastic Foundation discusses the size and shape of the plastic problem, how the pandemic reshaped the plastic landscape, and how food fits into the plastics puzzle.
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‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
The livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake's occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently.
Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a fo
Why cut down trees when you can grow wood in the exact shape you need?
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Seabird patrols to self-healing buildings: The 15 conservation stories to watch in 2021
In their latest scan of emerging global biological conservation issues, experts assess the 15 most urgent risks society needs to address.
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