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A surprising encounter reveals why environmental due diligence isn’t just paperwork — it’s protection.| Area Development
Tracking companies' impact on the ocean is made much harder by the hundreds of different measures they use, when they use any at all The post The blue economy’s blind spot appeared first on Dialogue Earth.| Dialogue Earth
New research shows that as the climate warms, hailstorms across Europe may become less frequent. But when they do occur, they could be more destructive than ever, especially in the south. New findings from Newcastle University and the UK Met Office shows that climate change is reshaping the nature of severe hail, with significant consequences for people, infrastructure and agriculture across the continent.| From Blog
From tropical cyclones and floods to droughts and heatwaves, climate change is reshaping natural hazards. Researchers at Newcastle University are analysing rainfall extremes, tropical cyclone dynamics, and the risks these pose for vulnerable regions like the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin in South Asia.| From Blog
A surprising encounter reveals why environmental due diligence isn’t just paperwork — it’s protection.| Area Development
The Next G Alliance, North America’s premier initiative for advancing 6G technologies, has undergone a significant evolution by transitioning its Green G Working Group into the new Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG). This expands the Working Group’s focus from primarily environmental concerns to a comprehensive framework that integrates environmental, societal, and economic sustainability. By embedding these three dimensions into 6G development, the Group aims to create wireless...| Next G Alliance
Explore how the Process Industries Net Zero Centre for Doctoral Training is developing critical skills for future Net Zero leadership.| from.ncl.ac.uk
Surging energy demands, grid instability, and ESG pressures are changing how companies choose new facility locations.| Area Development
Flexible utilities and workforce pipelines are essential to meet growing life sciences manufacturing demand.| Area Development
LiquidStack CEO Joe Capes on choosing Texas for expansion, working through AI supply chain shocks, and why hot water is the future of cooling.| Area Development
This is an excerpt of an article that the UN staff magazine published from me earlier this year. In it I talk about a new context for future efforts at international cooperation. If interested, con…| Prof Jem Bendell
What is a 4th Generation University? Find out from Professor Jane Robinson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Place at Newcastle University.| from.ncl.ac.uk
We put business to work in the poorest locations, using market-based agriculture and WASH solutions to improve incomes and livelihoods for millions of people.| iDE
The latest draft of the UN Political Declaration (Revision 3) brings back two references to alcohol policy best buys—barely avoiding complete meaninglessness. Yet the draft still falls short of previous global commitments to accelerate action, ignores WHO guidance, sidesteps the scientific evidence, and fails to match the scale of the alcohol burden.| Movendi International
In urban planning, pedestrianisation is one of the most polarising interventions a city can attempt....| citiesforum.org
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Could a public nuisance lawsuit force action on Canada’s food waste crisis? Some legal scholars think it’s worth a try.| Policy Options
Three students traveled across the globe this summer to work on projects in global policy, climate vulnerability, and urban research and fieldwork.| State of the Planet
The Ubud Food Festival concluded yesterday here in Bali, Indonesia. I spoke at an event on how to work better with nature to achieve greater food security. I was invited due to my co-founding of an…| Prof Jem Bendell
Columbia undergraduates spent three days learning about sustainable development on a local scale and immersing themselves in life on Cuttyhunk Island.| State of the Planet
Mentoring has the power to positively impact everyone involved, as evidenced by an initiative to mentor field technicians in Tanzania to provide inclusive veterinary extension to small-scale poultry producers.| GALVmed
Continuing on our journey, we visited the shrine and former home of Bangladeshi cultural icons, continued our interviews, and boarded a boat to take us to the embanked islands known as polders.| State of the Planet
FutureCoal today launched the Southern Africa Chapter, with Seriti Resources Group Chief Executive Officer Mike Teke serving as its inaugural Chairman.| FutureCoal
This video essay by Ruth Buchanan and Olaoluwa Oni is a film about what the films and other visual materials on the SDGs suggest about the hierarchies that organize the modern international order.| TWAILR
The event featured films and speakers from around the world who spotlighted humanity’s essential relationship with water and how it continues to evolve in our changing climate.| State of the Planet
New undergrad programs and a change in leadership underscore the Climate School's multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to sustainability.| State of the Planet
By: Heherson T. Alvarez former Senator who served as Environment and Climate Change Secretary World Ocean Day is observed on June 8 with the theme “Our Oceans, Our Future” geared inform, mobilize, unite the world’s population for the sustainable management of the world’s ocean, considered the lungs of our planet. The Ocean Conference […]| Global Education Magazine
If we conclude that current difficulties are aspects of an unfolding collapse of societies around the world, what might we want to see from officials in the United Nations system? That was a questi…| Prof Jem Bendell
Six hundred and seventy-four scholars from 53 countries, believe that “Only if policymakers begin to discuss this threat of societal collapse might communities and nations begin to prepare and so r…| Prof Jem Bendell
It’s crazy how fast things grow in the tropics! When we founded Bekandze Farm in early 2023 we thought we could make a small but meaningful contribution to local food security and environmental car…| Prof Jem Bendell
This primer explores the causes of methane emissions and how the world can limit the release of this potent greenhouse gas.| UNEP
Almost all software work used to happen in office buildings. Engineers commuted there, booted up their desktop computers, did their work, then turned them off and went home. There was no way to perform work anywhere else because the machinery needed stayed stowed away in company offices, inaccessible from outside. The rise of laptops, VPNs, … Continue reading Disconnecting From Work is a Skill We Need to Rebuild| More Than Coding
There are some terms in common use in the software industry that, while originally well-intentioned, have since become damaging rather than useful. “Sprint” Sprints were originally meant to create some focused time for engineers to give them space for concentration and deep work. They are only supposed to happen periodically, and in between less intense … Continue reading Three Terms in Software That We Should Consider Retiring| More Than Coding
Urban and rural areas represent two systems of interaction and symbiosis. Throughout history, the urban-rural... The post Urban- Rural Symbiosis: Trajectory of growth appeared first on citiesforum.org.| citiesforum.org
