‘Nature is our home’: New UK report urges big economic rethink
Nations will have to rethink economic growth as a measure of success if they want to make good on pledges to halt the destruction of the natural world, according to …
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Flogging a dead horse
Japan’s new leader is looking to revive the nation’s economy with the same strategy that floored it. Dr. Chris G. Pope explains. Abe Shinzo stepped down in September after becoming …
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Bicycle peddling
Zodwa: “It is extremely important that we create independent ways for the people to make money.” A bicycle tourist business run as an aside has morphed into a potential community …
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The shock that planted an idea
Dhaka scavenger, Taslima, was delighted to hear about Project Bottle Economy that will enable her to earn more from her work. A pair of technology students in Bangladesh came up …
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Central Eating
Pam Warhurst is an impressive community leader with a CBE for her efforts. She has been a council leader, chaired the Forestry Commission and has sat on other influential boards. …
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Eco India: An eco-tourism model that focuses on forest conservation and building the local economy
In one of the India’s privately-owned forest reserves, an effort to use the small patch of forest land to connect forest land to conservation with livelihood.
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Global food system emissions alone threaten warming beyond 1.5°C – but we can act now to stop it
How people grow food and the way we use the land is an important, though often overlooked, contributor to climate change. While most people recognise the role of burning fossil …
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As the EU votes to ‘massacre nature’, rainforest communities find a trailblazing way to protect it
The EU parliament came under fire recently for approving a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that critics say will “massacre nature”. But after the EU voted to sign nature’s “death sentence”, rainforest communities …
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‘We don’t want to go through this again’: Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds
Combatting deforestation and wildlife trade could avoid costing the planet trillions of dollars in economic disruption, Conservation International estimates. Funding efforts to combat deforestation, risky wildlife trade and nature protection …
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Stop Illegal Activity in the Amazon: A Plea From Brazil’s Private Sector
VITÓRIA, BRAZIL – As Brazil struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, the illegal destruction of the Amazon rainforest tragically rages on. Unfortunately, the leniency with which these crimes are being treated …
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