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Is sustainability sustainable? Or are we using fire to fight fire? Can we really afford to keep seeing nature as production machine? Or people as mere rational economic agents? To transform the systems that are harming people and planet and in...

Tourism has the potential to lead the shift towards a circular and regenerative blue economy, the UN Ocean Conference has been told.

Discover the mandatory reporting requirements, voluntary frameworks, and industry guidelines that apply to your business. Carbon reporting legislation is expanding rapidly across the world. It’s tricky for businesses to stay on top of, and getting it...

Liberia´s natural ecosystems are threatened, not only by climate change, but by logging, mining, and unsustainable agricultural practices - which themselves exacerbate climate change. Now, Liberia has launched its National Oil Palm Strategy and...

The objective of the conference is to raise business awareness on how to improve business communication strategy to encourage more sustainable consumption behaviour.

Interview with Dr Inmaculada Saranova de Martín, Executive Director of IbizaPreservation on the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative IbizaPreservation promotes the conservation and regeneration of the unique socio-environmental heritage of Ibiza and...

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative has welcomed a further 7 signatories, taking the total number to 121.

The newsletter aims at disseminating the progress achieved by the signatories of the initiative, as well as connected relevant information. This edition features: interview from one inspiring GTPI signatories: IbizaPreservation, as well as our past...

Trase has launched a new smartphone app that informs supermarket customers in Brazil about the environmental and social performance of the meat products that they purchase. Called Do Pasto ao Prato, meaning “From Pasture to Plate”, the app aims to...

World Environment Day on 5 June is the biggest international day for the environment. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually since 1974, the event has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental...

A joint training programme is being launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) on the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information. The training programme...

This report published by the Consumer Information Programme and WWF reviews the literature on the drivers of consumer food choice, with a focus on the role of food sustainability information. The objective was to identify both theoretical and...