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This article written by Dr. Luca Coscieme of Hot or Cool Institute aims to foster the mainstreaming of lifestyles in accordance with the 1.5° aspirational climate target and to facilitate transformations sought by the Paris Agreement and the EU Green...

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“The world is facing a food-waste crisis. It is estimated that 931 million tonnes of food were wasted by households, retailers, restaurants and other food services in 2019. Around 61% of this waste occurs within households” – says the latest UNEP...

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The ministers of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry of the Nordic Countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland Islands - had their annual Nordic Council of Ministers’ meeting (MR...

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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...

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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that global temperatures have already risen and that the negative consequences of climate change are being felt more and more. The level of ambition behind global...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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In preparation for Stockholm 50, a series of regional multi-stakeholder consultations will be organized in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Asia between April and May 2022.

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The new IPCC report, which reviews the evidence on impacts of climate change and our society’s ability to adapt, sends even stronger messages on the severity of climate change and the urgency of both substantial reduction in emissions and ramped up...

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You can help your suppliers reduce their emissions – and your own carbon footprint.