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Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme’s ‘Good Life Goals’ are now available in Swedish, and already available in English, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

IKEA releases report on activities tackling global challenges - climate change, unsustainable consumption and inequalities

Featuring: Michael Minter, Head of Programme at CONCITO, Luka Balac and Carlos Henriques, Restaurant Nolla, Helsinki, Dr Rune Blomhoff, Professor at the University of Oslo, Anne Pøhl Enevoldson, Head of Sustainable Food and Health at the Danish...

A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers takes stock of the work on the sustainable transition – which seems more relevant than ever now, after a summer of extreme weather events. The report shows that the green transition remains the...

OTCHIVA is a NGO that focuses on maintaining, reforesting and raise awareness about mangroves. OTCHIVA means “wetland” in the Umbundu language spoken by more than 40% of the Angolan population. It was co-founded by a Petroleum Engineer after...

Switching to white meats and plant-based diets and finding alternatives to air travel are among the recommendations in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ new report on household consumption, which maps the situation in the Nordic countries and presents...

IKEA and partners introduced a practical guide for businesses on how to measure air pollution across value chains. The guide will support companies to understand their impact on air quality and to take necessary actions to reduce their emissions. The...

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...

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...

About two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to household consumption. So there is no question that changes in lifestyles are integral to the solutions package towards a sustainable future. Yet, questions abound: Does action...

Join nine change agents from the Nordic region and beyond to learn how to connect nutrition with environmental sustainability during a event leading up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit. The “From science and guidelines to food system...

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...