Why a circular economy is key to addressing climate change? The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a new paper, in collaboration with Material Economics, revealing the need for a fundamental shift in the global approach to tackling climate change and relying solely on renewable energy is not enough.

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications says that black people living in most US cities are subject to double the level of heat stress as their white counterparts. It begs the question of how cities can play its crucial role in the SDG achievement and leave no one behind.

The IEA released a roadmap for realizing net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the energy sector by 2050. The new net-zero model signals a critical shift in the IEA’s ambition, moving the yardstick for achieving net-zero emissions two decades earlier.

After a record-tying warm year in 2020, the world is on track for a cooler year in 2021, driven by moderately strong La Niña conditions in the late part of 2020 and early 2021.

Mangroves are key to conservation in Kenya, but Kenya's mangroves have been exploited for centuries for shipbuilding and construction materials among others. Lamu archipelago, around the northern coast of Kenya, accounts for more than half of the country's mangroves, but across the country approximately 40% of this commodity has been degraded. This is where the region's women come to the rescue to run mangrove conservation effort.

President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to assess and mitigate the increasing and serious risks that climate change poses to individuals, businesses, the federal government and the U.S. financial system. Biden issued an executive order requiring development of a comprehensive government-wide climate-risk strategy within 120 days

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is pushing the Group of Seven economies to impose mandatory reporting of environmental risks on their big companies.

Under the proposals, the biggest companies would report annually on their exposure to risks and opportunities presented by climate change. It would follow guidelines set out in 2017 by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.