Desertification– when droughts, climate change or human activity deteriorate soil fertility and cause vegetation loss- depletes the...

In 1968, the Treaty for The Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was signed. This was a multilateral treaty aimed at reducing the...

The majority of large economies’ planned COVID-19 recovery spending is not green, putting the world on track to plough billions of...

Competition can be singled out by economists as a fundamental virtue of the free market. As the story goes, competition is what drives...

The current world order is woefully inadequate at protecting natural habitats and preserving ecological services and resources for future...

A new analysis, which brings to light the pressing issue of climate migration, has called for changes in the US immigration policy. While...

At the opening of the National People’s Congress last week, China released its first roadmap to achieving net-zero emissions by 2060, but...

Italy opened its first green bond offering this week and raised more than €8 billion, in what was the biggest debut sovereign green bond...

New guidelines adopted by the Minerals Council of Australia will require Australian mining companies to follow stricter rules governing...

The Bank of England will include green goals in its remit, by greening its corporate bond-buying programme from the end of 2021 after the...

When going about our lives, we usually go with the options that are convenient, but we don’t think about the underlying consequences to...

China wants online trading in its national carbon market to begin before the end of June as it looks for more tools to help cut...

On February 23, US President Joe Biden pledged that the US would achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, following a spree of climate-related...

The first assessment of countries’ pledges to tackle climate change in the next decade, an important part of the Paris Agreement, has...

You may have heard some governments or organisations pledge to “achieve carbon neutrality” by a certain date or reach “net zero...

One of the questions asked at the Third Global Session of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum held during the UN Environment Assembly...

A new analysis has found that since taking office in January 2019, Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has approved 57 pieces of legislation...

In the mid-20th century, the Green Revolution ushered in unprecedented technological advancements in the world’s agricultural systems....

Kenya is emerging as a leader in the fight against plastic pollution and is among the first countries in East Africa to limit the use of...

2020 was the year of climate pledges: among others, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and China promised to zero-out emissions by 2050 to...