OUR ENVIRONMENT ICON: MEET MRS. OYEFUNKE OLAYINKA What would inspire someone who has worked for decades in the corporate environment transit to care for the environment? This is the interesting story of Mrs. Oyefunke Olayinka. Environmentng.com carefully identifies Environment Icons to celebrate, considering their contributions at the National, State and Local Community levels in Nigeria. […]
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Urgent action is needed to secure the UK’s food supply in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather, the imposition of tariffs and global insecurity, a report has warned. Days after the US president, Donald Trump, warned Europe would be next for tariffs on trade after he imposed tax levies on Canada, China and Mexico, […]
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Multilateral development banks (MDBs) made a promise at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for countries to achieve ambitious climate outcomes. MDBs estimate that by 2030, their annual collective climate financing for low- and middle-income countries will reach USD 120 billion, including USD 42 billion for adaptation, and MDBs aim to mobilize […]
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Countries at the last COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient. The agreement, clinched in overtime at the two-week conference in Azerbaijan’s capital, was meant to provide momentum for […]
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Countries have failed to reach a landmark agreement on tackling plastic pollution after more than two years of negotiations. More than 200 nations met in South Korea for what was meant to be a final round of talks. But deep divisions remained between a group of nearly 100 “high ambition” countries calling for plastic to […]
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COP29 is over, with developing countries complaining that the $300bn (about £240bn) a year in climate finance they will receive by 2035 is a “paltry sum”. Many of the rich country voices at the UN’s climate conference were amazed that developing nations were unhappy with what on the surface seems a huge settlement. It is […]
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Schneider Electric has taken top honours in an inaugural ranking by TIME and Statista on the 500 companies ‘doing best for Earth.’ The ‘rigorous’ four-step methodology ruled out companies involved in non-sustainable industries, such as fossil fuels or deforestation, before assessing on external sustainability ratings, availability and quality of sustainability reports, and the effectiveness of […]
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Last year was the driest for global rivers in 30 years, while glaciers suffered the largest mass loss in 50 years. Last year was the driest year for global rivers in 33 years, warns a new report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). According to the State of Global Water Resources report, the past […]
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Convincing countries to give more money to tackle climate change will be the centrepiece of the climate summit. The next UN climate conference, COP29, is taking place a month today in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku. In a week marred by deadly flooding in eastern Europe and a “berserk” climate fuelled hurricane in the US, it […]
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22,000 people were asked about their feelings on the environment – and if enough is being done to protect it – and the results make for fascinating reading. A new study has discovered that a majority of people believe causing serious damage to nature and the climate should be a criminal offence. The Ipsos survey, […]
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