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Soft drinks industry aims for 100% recycled or renewable plastic by 2030

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European soft drink makers unveiled their new vision for 2030 on Monday (22 February), announcing plans to reach 100% recycled or renewable materials in plastic bottles by the end of …

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How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

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Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies …

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Worker-Owned Cooperatives Are Creating Their Own Funding Networks

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When Princess Robinson takes her son to school at 8 o’clock in the morning, there’s always a line of people waiting to buy their morning tamales and coffee from a …

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A sky-high tariff on smartphones is keeping people offline in Zimbabwe

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Despite experiencing substantial growth in internet users in the last decade, Zimbabwe, a country of 14.7 million, still suffers from underutilized mobile internet capacity and low smartphone penetration, according to the latest annual …

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Nutri-Gardening Initiative Promises Better Nutrition for Tribal Women Farmers

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Khunta, one of the remote blocks of North Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, is yet to overcome malnutrition. For years, rain-fed agriculture and collection of forest produce constituted a major source of livelihood …

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Seattle Bets on Equitable Development

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In most U.S. cities, planning for growth often looks like luxury apartments and corporate incentives, with minimal consideration for how those developments will affect the people already living and working …

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Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy has come online and the government’s not happy

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Entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire are circumventing high retail rents and government bureaucracy to start businesses online, resulting in a thriving informal digital economy. From baby clothes to handmade jewelry, small …

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Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share hub, taking trading back to where it all began

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Amsterdam has usurped London to become Europe’s biggest hub for trading shares. It is quite a shift for a city that was fifth behind Paris, Frankfurt and Milan only two months ago, …

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Spending on green economic stimulus is slowly rising, study finds

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Huge amounts of post-pandemic stimulus packages are mostly failing to support action to tackle climate change or halt the loss of biodiversity, but the amount of green spending is slowly …

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Why France’s new ‘repairability index’ is a big deal

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Our electronic devices take a serious environmental toll, and one of the best ways to mitigate that is to use them for as long as possible before replacing them. But …

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