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Tackling the ocean crisis to unlock a safer, fairer future
Tackling the multiple threats facing the ocean is essential to ensuring a safe and fair future for humanity, according to experts from the University of Exeter. Threats including climate change, plastic and chemical pollution and overexploitation are complex and interconnected — so, solutions must be holistic, leading to more resilient marine ecosystems. Protecting the ocean...
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Catalysing change: why transforming global food systems plays a critical role in stopping the climate crisis
Food systems are now firmly on the sustainability agenda, and it is easy to see why. Today, 2.4 billion people lack consistent access to sufficient food1, while food systems generate a third of global greenhouse gas emissions2. Perhaps most shockingly, a third of all food produced is wasted.3 With the global population set to increase to...
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Multidimensional training programme: unlocking green skills for clean growth
Training programmes that deliver high-value skills are vital for the UK’s transition to a net zero economy. Achieving net zero is a multidimensional challenge involving a range of social and geopolitical factors and a complex network of stakeholders. It not only spans academic disciplines but also requires innovation, policy development and skills training. Over the...
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Sustainability over substance: how to combat greenwashing in packaging
Packaging is often painted as the villain in sustainability narratives. However, through remarkable advances in sustainable materials and designs, it has the potential to be the hero of our planet’s future. We need to be able to separate genuine, substantive sustainable choices from paper-thin greenwashing claims. As COP 28 begins amidst a global regulatory movement...
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Agriculture and food systems: the missing climate solution?
Agriculture and food systems are perhaps our greatest hope to halt the imploding climate crisis. We look to this year’s UN Climate Conference, COP28 as an opportunity to share the many ways that agrifood systems transformation can be a game changer. Evidence from FAO’s work across countries reveals that agrifood systems are not only about...
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How we can end plastic pollution faster, together
During the decades between COP1 and COP28, the climate situation has become — in many ways — worse. Plastic pollution is everywhere; greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production are expected to more than double by 2060. In 1995, the same year that the very first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the...