Each year, the volume of global food waste can reach up to 1 billion tons, with 60% of it coming from household. The UNEP Regional Office for West Asia and GO4SDGs launched a campaign to raise awareness to reduce food waste during Ramadan, foster behaviour change, and boost sustainable action. Although this year's Ramadan has ended, we should continue raising awareness about reducing food waste.

Learn more about the GO4SDGs food waste project in West Asia: https://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/news/fasting-feasting-and-food-was…

The recent 2021 World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund spring meetings took place during challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused loss of life and exacerbated global poverty and inequality, while draining governments resources. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change are starting to be felt on a broad scale, resulting in the loss of homes, crops and livelihoods. The year 2020 was tied for the hottest on record and boasted, among other things, a record number of destructive storms crossing the Atlantic. On top of the long-lasting economic effects of the pandemic, the impacts of climate change are poised to only get worse.

WRI, WWF, and HSBC have launched a US$100m Climate Solutions Partnership, which aims to accelerate efforts to scale up climate innovation ventures, nature-based solutions, and renewable energy and energy efficiency in Asia

It will take decades to achieve the enormous reductions required globally; in the meantime emissions will continue and so will the warming. We must get better at managing climate disasters as they become more numerous. Resilience matters because it is impossible to wall off the country from the effects of climate change. Redirecting federal money toward resilience rather than simply rebuilding after disasters will be hard. But the longer we wait, the harder it will become as the costs of climate change mount.

To give investors access to decision-useful information to effectively price and manage climate risks, there is an urgent need to strengthen the “climate information architecture.” Data gaps make it difficult to assess firms’ exposure to climate risk. A consistent, timely, and uniform implementation of internationally agreed sustainability reporting standards is necessary.

UK COP26 president Alok Sharma is calling on all nations to abandon coal power and make this year’s UN climate talks the moment the world “consigns coal to history”.

How relevant are port cities in reducing maritime carbon emissions?

To address water management challenges, these cities use nature-based-solutions

From the outset CDP has advanced global efforts toward net-zero, catalyzing action by subnational groups. On the route towards net-zero 2050, the organisation that strives to drive companies and governments to reduce their GHG emissions recognises "all of the above" approach which prioritises emissions reduction along with filling the climate finance gap. What's their take on carbon offsets to reach this destination?