Years of activism over mercury poisoning led to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a landmark treaty on environment and health. Going forward, what work still remains and what can we learn?
Aaron Cosbey with the International Institute for Sustainable Development on whether there's reason to be hopeful as world leaders meet in Glasgow to try to prevent irreversible climate change.
It had been two years since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held a Conference of the Parties, and COP 26 in Glasgow proved to be an event like no other.
L’événement, dont la deuxième édition se tiendra fin novembre, incarne la volonté de positionner la Suisse comme la place où la durabilité devait se discuter au niveau international.
Governments and investors could save US$248bn a year, protect the environment and benefit local communities by replacing or complementing newly built infrastructure with plants, trees and other natural alternatives, according to a first-of-its-kind study from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
This scoping report has been developed to better understand the role of CSOs in climate action and their level of access to climate finance in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that timely, online access to data can be transformational. Amid a global pandemic, information sharing among scientists and nations helped us develop and roll out a vaccine in record time. Meanwhile, publishing daily case counts enabled people to understand risks and behave accordingly. Free and open access to data on other critical public issues — including climate change and freshwater health — is just as essential.
One day before the G20 summit and just before COP 26, research organizations heading four recovery trackers have issued a joint statement urging further greening of COVID-19 response.
Leading research organizations tracking global recovery spending call on world leaders to redirect all unspent and future COVID-19 stimulus away from carbon intensive activities toward nature- and climate-positive investments.