Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Volume 12 Number 747 | Tuesday, 18 December 2018 Summary of the Katowice Climate Change Conference 2-15 December 2018 | Katowice, Poland Languages: EN (HTML/PDF) FR (HTML/PDF) AR (HTML/PDF) JA (HTML/PDF) Visit our IISD/ENB Meeting Coverage from Katowice, Poland at: http://enb.iisd.org/climate/cop24/enb/ The Katowice Climate Change Conference convened from 2-15 December …
SDSN 2018 End of Year Highlights
Wishing you a very happy new year from all of us at SDSN! We’ve had a great year, and are thrilled to share some of our successes with you! Network & Regional Center Activities 2018 was a busy year with a number of new Networks and SDG Centers launched. With 10 …
Last chance to register for San Francisco (16-17 Jan)
Organized by Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Get the detailed agenda here! Topics on the 9th North American edition include organic market outlook, blockchain technology, cell-based meat potential, regenerative agriculture, plant-based foods, mushroom technology, side stream ingredients, sustainable processing methods, marketing novel products, mainstreaming vegetarian foods, consumer campaigns, closing packaging …
New BCG Report on Sustainability: It’s Time to Plant the Seeds of Sustainable Growth in Agriculture
“Ethical Markets welcomes this Boston Consulting Group’s report which goes as far as it can in breaking new ground on addressing our unsustainable global food system which is teetering perilously on the planet’s 3% freshwater and still reliant on livestock-grown meat responsible for some 18% of CO2 emissions. We have …
WRI Digest: Climate Talks Wrap | Green New Deal | Plastics is Your Frenemy
WRI Digest COP 24 Climate Talks Set Paris Agreement in Motion After two bruising weeks of talks in Poland, negotiators made “just enough progress to set the Paris Agreement in motion,” said Helen Mountford, WRI Vice President for Climate and Economics. Read More. COP24 President Michal Kurtyka jump after approval …
SDG Update – 18 December 2018
GUEST ARTICLES First Nations and UN Academic Hub Work Together in Manitoba for Clean Water and Sanitation Helen Fallding, Manager, Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba University of Manitoba researchers are working with First Nations on projects designed to increase access to safe drinking water and sanitation services. …
Rulebook to implement the Paris Agreement is now a reality
COP24 has just concluded and the rulebook to implement the Paris Agreement is now a reality Look back at the top climate action highlights from the World Bank Group in Katowice, Poland. How is the Human Capital Index prompting action? In the two months since the release of the …
Act!on Agriculture Bulletin – Vol. 170 No. 5 – COP 24 Act!on Agriculture – Summary
“Ethical Markets applauds this wider-ranging discussion on the urgent need to reform today’s global unsustainable agriculture and its peril to our food supply, climate goals, biodiversity and human health. These panelists at COP 24 touch on all the important reforms needed: agroecology, protecting forests, lands, biodiversity, as well as indigenous …
CLARA Full Report” Missing Pathways to 1.5 C “
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this ground-breaking report on how to reform human land-use practices and our unsustainable food system to best achieve climate stability and more equitable societies. This report confirms much of our own research in our annual GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® reports since 2009. Our current 2018 report: “Capturing …
WRI Digest: COP24 | How to Feed the World | CO2 Rising | Yellow Vests
“Ethical Markets welcomes this innovative, systemic report on how to reform our planetary food system for the future. However, it still misses the lowest-hanging fruit, on which we report in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard, 2018 : ‘CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH’, which includes most of WRI’s …