Tekijä: Kirsi Seppänen

For almost 50 years, Unesco’s 1972 world heritage convention (WHC) has been the foremost global instrument for the protection of humanity’s natural and cultural heritage….

Global packaging giant Tetra Pak has today unwrapped a suite of new sustainability goals, including a plan to reach net zero operational emissions by 2030…

Bossan works three jobs to provide for his wife and two-year-old daughter — at two different hospitals and a mobile emergency unit. Double and triple…

Twitter is trying to stop people from sharing articles they have not read, in an experiment the company hopes will “promote informed discussion” on social…

European definitions for when recycled waste is considered a product again must be harmonised, because there is a ”lack of alignment” between EU chemicals and…

Cementos Cosmos has been granted an Integrated Environmental Authorisation, allowing the company’s Toral de los Vados plant to use waste tyres as an alternative fuel…

The first wave of funding under the government’s COVID-19 Emergency Surplus Food Grant has been confirmed today, with nearly 90 not-for-profit organisations across England set…

From mass testing tens of thousands of its migrant workers to using serological tests to uncover links between its virus clusters, Singapore has deployed varying…

Environmental law groups in the US and Australia are pushing Unesco to place the world heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef on an “in…

As cannabis and hemp regulation expands globally, its impact on water resources is relatively unknown. However, a partnership between Resource Innovation Institute (RII), the Berkeley…

In recent years, the leaders and inhabitants of many small-island nations like Kiribati and Tuvalu have warned that climate change is an existential threat to…

McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Procter & Gamble (P&G) collectively source 4.3 million metric tonnes of plastic annually, of which just 8% comes…

Concerns about the potential for spreading the new coronavirus spurred at least four (US) states and many more municipalities to stall or suspend plastic bag…

The Bureau of Reclamation is providing more than $16 million to nine congressionally authorized Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse projects. This funding, part of…

Diesel fuel from a major spill in Russia’s Arctic has reached a pristine lake which is the basin for a river flowing into the Arctic…

A project described as the U.K.’s first consumer-owned wind farm has been launched, as the way people power their homes continues to change. In an…

The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has rejected a $100m wind farm proposal in central Queensland on the grounds it would clear old-growth forest important to…

The German economy ministry wants to earmark 500 million euros ($567 million) from Berlin’s bumper stimulus package to support the roll-out of charging stations for…

Valtion ja Helsingin seudun kuntien edellisen, vuosille 2016–2019 solmitun maankäytön, asumisen ja liikenteen (MAL) sopimuksen seuranta on valmistunut. Kaupunkiseudun asuntotuotanto, kaavoitus ja liikenne ovat kehittyneet…

Ulkoministeriön tukemilla kansalaisjärjestöillä on merkittävä ja lisäarvoa tuova rooli naisten ja tyttöjen oikeuksien ja aseman edistämisessä. Järjestöjen työ on omiaan varmistamaan, että kehitys tavoittaa myös…