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New global waste standard to drive business circularity
A new global waste standard has been released by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to enable companies to track their waste generation and encourage a…
Sustainable palm oil? How environmental protection and poverty reduction can be reconciled
Scientists at the University of Göttingen analyse data on ecological, social and economic effects. Palm oil is often associated with tropical deforestation above all else….
New Zealand provides $7m for global humanitarian response to COVID-19
The New Zealand Government is contributing $7 million to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people who are at severe risk of COVID-19. The…
U.S. solar industry sheds five years of job growth amid the coronavirus
The United States has shed more than 65,000 solar energy jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, industry leaders said on Monday, reversing five years of job…
IMF chief warns full global economic recovery unlikely in 2021
The global economy will take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the new coronavirus than initially expected, the head of the…
Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
Food waste is taking on a new meaning in the pandemic era. Dumped milk in Wisconsin. Smashed eggs in Nigeria. Rotting grapes in India. Buried…
Spain readies law on clean energy, hails potential economic boost
Spain’s cabinet is set to approve a bill setting out a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 on Tuesday, putting it…
Portugal suspends foreign trash imports to cope with own increased waste
Portugal, which usually attracts huge mounds of rubbish from other European states because of its low waste management fees, has suspended imports of trash until…
Fears mount over migrants dying ‘out of sight’ in Mediterranean
More and more migrants are crossing, Europe is closing its ports and no humanitarian ships are carrying out rescues. As the coronavirus pandemic dominates headlines,…
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