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Posted on: October 25, 2019

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Posted on: October 25, 2019
Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) bring together businesses, vessel owners, NGOs and governments to identify environmental challenges in a fishery and develop an action plan to address them. Photo: J'nel/Shutterstock.

Needed: an ecosystem of partners to support ocean health

Posted on: August 1, 2019
Darian McBain
Global co-operation, with businesses playing a critical role, is needed to transform the seafood industry It is estimated that approximately three billion people around the world rely on seafood for their primary source of protein, making...
We are in the middle of a disruptive digital transformation that compels us to update traditional business models. We need to create an entirely new model for the chemical industry – one we might term “chemistry and materials as a service." Photo: Tong Nawarit/Shutterstock.

Business should ensure the well-being of people and the planet

Posted on: July 24, 2019
Dr. Yoshimitsu Kobayashi
Innovation, sustainability and the efficient use of capital are mutually reinforcing More and more private companies are incorporating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their operating strategies and using them as business...
Human activity has “significantly altered” 75 per cent of land and 66 per cent of oceans, mainly through food production. Photo: Ethan Daniels/Shutterstock.

Three steps to meeting the climate and nature emergency

Posted on: July 16, 2019
Johan Rockström
We must make the most of a super-year in 2020 for saving the global commons next year There are growing calls to declare climate and nature emergencies. But are these justified? The latest scientific assessments on the state of Earth’s climate and...
Madagascar is the world’s leading producer of vanilla. Fanamby has initiated a programme for the crop which aims to support farmers in producing good-quality vanilla with sure access to international markets, but without it being their only source of revenue. This programme also aims to promote gender equality by involving the leadership of strong women producers. Photo: Pierre-Yves Babelon/Shutterstock.

Conserving nature boosts farmer incomes and cuts poverty

Posted on: July 11, 2019
Serge Rajaobelina
Local communities need to be engaged when it comes to using their natural resources sustainably Madagascar, island of a thousand wonders, is well known for its many endemic species of plants and animals. With more than 13 million hectares (more than...
Growing population: approximately 20 million people now live in Lagos. Photo: ariyo olasunkanmi/Shutterstock.

Renewable energy is the only way to fuel African growth

Posted on: July 8, 2019
Ademola Adesina
Public-private partnerships are proving to be an effective way of solving Nigeria's energy supply crisis My country, Nigeria, will soon become the third most populous country in the world, reaching a forecast 400 million people in 2050. This...
Analysis shows that, for every dollar spent on food, society pays two in health, environmental and economic costs: $5.7 trillion (£4.33 trillion) of this huge annual economic burden is due to how food is produced and how its by-products are managed. Photo: Fotokostic/Shutterstock.

Fixing the food system: how cities can truly feed the world

Posted on: June 26, 2019
Ellen MacArthur
Martin Stuchtey
Urban areas can change the broken food system that causes ill-health and environmental degradation Over half of the world’s 7.7 billion people live in towns and cities. By 2050, more than two thirds of them will do so. Materials, waste, emissions,...
It is now up to the private sector to prove on a large scale that sustainable business practices lead to greater biodiversity and to capturing more carbon – and, above all, that they offer robust financial returns. That calls for a fresh perspective: sustainability isn’t a “green cost of doing business” – rather, it is now the business itself. Photo: Gustavo Frazao/Shutterstock.

Exploiting rainforest riches while conserving them

Posted on: June 18, 2019
Guilherme Leal
Products that are sustainably harvested from the Amazon can form a powerful bioeconomy Climate change is coming to the global policy agenda, and damage to the world’s tropical rainforests is a key component of it. In my own country, Brazil, there is...
Together, if we meet the SDGs, we will do something no generation has achieved since the first industrial revolution: we can hand to tomorrow’s generation a planet in better shape than we inherited it. Photo: TTstudio/Shutterstock.

Why investors must look beyond returns

Posted on: June 4, 2019
Lim Boon Heng
Profitability and sustainability can reinforce each other. Business should do well, do right and do good – and it pays. When starting a business, founders grapple with its purpose – the reason for it to exist. This purpose has multiple dimensions,...