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Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, say 72% of people in G20 countries surveyed
06 September 2024 - Across G20 countries surveyed*, 72% of people agree that approving or permitting actions which cause serious damage to nature and the climate should be a criminal offence. 59% are very or extremely worried about the state of nature today. 69%...
How Sub-Saharan Africa can achieve the SDGs by 2100: A new report by Earth4All
04 September 2024 - In advance of the UN Summit of the Future, Earth4All has released a new report detailing two possible futures for Sub-Saharan Africa this century. The report, "SDGs for All: Africa," uses Earth4All’s state-of-the-art system dynamics model to chart...
Call for world action on multiple threats
01 August 2024 - Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, the Roundtable on the Human Future has declared. At present humanity has no way to deal with such a crisis – and a global plan of action is...
Earth Overshoot Day 2024 falls on August 1st
30 July 2024 - August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand on nature’s resources surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them for the given year. This day is calculated by Global Footprint Network, the international sustainability...
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Rene Schwietzke
To solve the climate crisis, we need to live in a less material world
10 May 2024 - Global material use has more than tripled since 1970 - from 30 billion tons to 106 billion tons a year. And it is taking a heavy toll on our planet. The extraction and processing of fossil fuels, metals and minerals, food production and forestry...
To solve the climate crisis, we need to live in a less material world
10 May 2024 - Global material use has more than tripled since 1970 - from 30 billion tons to 106 billion tons a year. And it is taking a heavy toll on our planet. The extraction and processing of fossil fuels, metals and minerals, food production and forestry...
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