Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in Zambia is currently undergoing significant developments and revisions. A pilot project funded by the EU and implemented by the Africa Rise and SWITCH to Green Facilities delivered lessons...
Circular Economy Roadmaps serve as a strategic instrument to facilitate a systemic change, enabling the transition from a linear economic model to a circular one. These roadmaps are customized to suit the specific contexts of each...
Timber traceability is a growing global trend. Governments and consumers require reliable tracking of products sold with claims to legality or sustainability from their origin throughout the supply chain. Timber traceability...
Brussels, 7 June 2022- Brussels celebrated World Environment Day on Sunday 5 June with events organised around the city, from morning to midnight. With nature in emergency mode, the 2022 World Environment Day global campaign...
“We need scientists at the same table with decision makers to come up with the best approaches to develop and implement evidence based and effective policy to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity...
The impacts of climate change are unequally distributed worldwide, and affect especially Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The scale of these impacts leaves no other choice but to adapt...
Brussels, 10 December 2021 At the first-ever Policy Dialogue on Zero Pollution concluded yesterday in Brussels, the European Commission (EC) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have agreed to act together at the global level to...
Indeed, we are in the age of Anthropocene. Humankind’s seeming insatiable greed made nature an object of appropriation, private enclosures, exploitation and disposition. Our ecological footprints led to the extent unimaginable...
Multi-hazard risk management (such as natural hazards triggering technological accidents) need to be addressed in the face of consequences of climate change. At the same time, there is a growing interest in nature-based solutions...
The 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) will mark a major milestone on the road to implementing the Paris Agreement and in limiting the global average...
