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Climate Fund Moving At Glacial Speed
Share It!Focus On Sustainability, Clean Energy The Green Climate Fund is finally getting some legs. The big question now is what direction it will pursue. Local ownership, sustainability and a firm...
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Technical Solutions Not A Silver Bullet In Battle Against Climate Change
Share It!Economic Incentives Must Change On Many Levels By Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation Dealing with climate change and its risks will require not only technical responses like...
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Living Near Trees Is Good For Your Health
Share It!Neighborhood Green Space Good For Mental, Physical Health Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health. But how much could a tree in the street or a nearby neighborhood park...
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Rio Olympians Threatened By Sewage
Share It!Fecal Contamination In Water Threatens Health Of Athletes By Brad Brooks, AP Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated...
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Are Cities Ready For The Next Major Hurricane
Share It!Coastal Cities Unprepared For Extreme Storms By Nick Stockton, Wired After the storm, after the flooding, after the investigations, the US came to realize that what happened to New Orleans on...
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Major US Banks Urge Global Leaders To Tackle Climate Change
Share It!Global Warming Threatens Business As Usual Six major U.S. banks are urging world leaders to adopt a strong agreement to slash carbon emissions and tackle climate change. The coalition warned...
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Singapore Choking On Air Pollution From Indonesia
Share It!Singapore Pays Price For Bungle In Indonesia’s Jungles Illegal burning of Indonesian rainforest to make room for palm and paper plantations has left neighboring countries choking on smoke....
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Beijing Smog Sparks First Red Alert
Share It!Schools, Factories Close As Millions Of Vehicles Forced To Park Beijing has issued its first pollution red alert as acrid smog enveloped the Chinese capital for the second time this month. The...
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Climate Change Deemed Top Economic Threat
Share It!Environmental Concerns Have Economists’ Attention Forced migration and climate change are the biggest risks facing the global economy this decade, according to 750 experts surveyed by the...
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Can World Leaders Tackle Climate Change
Share It!Environmental, Social and Economic Issues Tightly Connected By Gro Harlem Bruntland In the early 1990s, when I was Prime Minister of Norway, I once found myself debating sustainable...
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Wastewater Treatment Plants Spreading Disease
Share It!Brain Disease Fastest Growing Cause Of Death Neurodegenerative disease is a global epidemic among people and other mammals. Mismanagement and misinformation around the world are fanning the...
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Wastewater Treatment Plants Recycling Disease
Municipal Sewage Spreading Brain Disease In 1972, the world realized that dumping millions of tons of sewage sludge into the oceans killed entire underwater ecosystems. Some nations stopped the dumping...
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Cities Offer Best Practices In Water Management
Droughts, Floods, Growth Testing Municipal Water Management The threat of a water crisis is looming for hundreds of millions of the world’s inhabitants, as climate change, water management challenges...
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Frankfurt A Model For Sustainability
Most Cities Failing On Sustainability Cities around the world are failing to meet the needs of their people, according to the inaugural Sustainable Cities Index. However, on a broad scale that measures...
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Cities Can Offset Carbon Footprint With Reforestation Project In Tanzania
Program Will Include Urban Forestry The Kilimanjaro region of East Africa is one of the most threatened ecosystems on earth. Millions of people and several endangered species depend on the snows and...
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Cities Spreading Disease With Sewage Mismanagement
Wastewater Treatment Plants Weapons Of Mass Destruction? As the Zika virus and other brain ailments soar around the world, it’s time for cities to take an honest assessment of their role in the...
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Tap Water Exposing Millions To Carcinogen
Chromium-6 In Hundreds Of Wells Across U.S. In the film Erin Brockovich, the environmental crusader confronts the lawyer of a power company that polluted the tap water of Hinkley, Calif., with a...
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New Coal Deals Threaten Paris Climate Goals
Greenhouse Gas Reductions Critical In Battle Against Climate Change The landmark global climate change deal brokered in Paris cleared an important hurdle this week when it secured enough official...
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UNDP Launches Sustainable Cities Program
Cities A Massive Problem, Opportunity By Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme On behalf of UNDP, welcome to the launch of the UNDP Sustainable Urbanization Strategy....
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Most People Breathing Unhealthy Air
Air Pollution An Extreme Threat To Public Health By Mike Ives, The New York Times The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 92 percent of people breathe what it classifies as unhealthy air, in...
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