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Nordic Ministerial Declaration on a global agreement on plastic pollution and ambitions for UNEA 5.2
The Nordic Ministerial Declaration on a global agreement on plastic pollution and ambitions for UNEA 5.2 was adopted on November 3rd 2021 by the Nordic Ministers of Environment and Climate.
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Compliance with the Paris Agreement needs our emissions down to an equitable annual 0.7 tons CO2e per person; the way things are going, that task of reducing consumption levels has been assigned to those that already consume less. This article...
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The report explores impacts of consumption in six domains: food; housing, personal transport; goods; leisure; and services, and uses these to aggregate total lifestyle carbon footprints and reveal hotspots in the ten surveyed countries, representing...
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Establishing a circular economy accelerates the process of meeting Paris Agreement climate targets.
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Have you ever thought about how much water goes into your daily cup of coffee? It’s a lot more than what you pour out of the kettle. In fact, the UN estimates it takes 140 litres of water to grow, process and transport enough coffee beans for one...
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For World Food Day 2021, an international day celebrated annually on 16 October to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, researchers on the CANDIES project take a closer look at...
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El Concurso Innovación para los Estilos de Vida Sostenible es organizado por el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) en colaboración con la Universidad de los Andes. Esta iniciativa es organizada con el apoyo del proyecto del...
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UNESCO launched an online course on “Sustainability starts with Teachers” for teachers in Southern Africa.
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Thousands of Trash Hackers across the world connected to watch the webinar launch of UNESCO's Trash Hack campaign for schools and share their own innovative ideas to reduce waste.
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On the occasion of the One Ocean Summit taking place in Brest, France, UNESCO announced it has set itself the goal of including ocean education in the school curricula of its 193 Member States by 2025. To achieve this goal, the United Nations agency...
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A recent UNESCO workshop of the series on the transformative power of ESD for the world beyond COVID-19 focused on Sustainable Lifestyles, in particular how ESD help accelerate transformation towards more sustainable economies and societies and...
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In November 2020, the world´s first second-hand IKEA shop opened in Eskilstuna, Sweden, with the purpose to test and develop how the second-hand segment can contribute to prolong the life of the IKEA products and contribute to moving IKEA towards a...
