February 3, 2024 - Quest4Action

Sustainable waste management through behavioral science: Case studies around the world

Waste amounted to 3.3 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, with landfills the primary source. As climate change continues to pose an ever-looming

Water

Water is Life” – Working with Habene Community Members to Revive a Life-Giving Water Source

Mubuyu River is not a natural stream, but has earned its name from the floods that characterise it during the rainy season. It has

Sustainability

How the Minamata Convention is aiming to end mercury’s millennia-long toxic run

It is October 2013, and Rimiko Yoshinaga is standing behind a podium in Minamata, Japan, gazing at an auditorium packed with world leaders. Silence descends

Energy

Navigating the opportunities and risks of solar irrigation: The importance of comprehensive accounting and smart regulations

Solar-powered groundwater irrigation is growing quickly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over the last ten years, South Asia has seen the installation of

Climate

Eight ways Asia is using nature to adapt to the climate crisis

The Asia-Pacific region is no stranger to climate change. In just the last few months, it has endured droughts, record-breaking heat, and multiple super typhoons,

Climate

Green financing allows women in Nepal to shape their own futures

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will be inviting young changemakers aged 18-30 with outstanding ideas on how to protect and restore the environment

Climate

GCA and the World Economic Forum host Business Dialogue on Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Davos

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) brought together business leaders with their counterparts from government, philanthropy, multilateral development

Community

Solar powered water pumps support pastoralists’ livelihoods in times of climate crisis

It is early morning, and Michael Lokuru Kuri is taking his cattle out to graze as he does every day when the sun rises,

Climate

How is satellite data revolutionizing the way we track greenhouse gas emissions around the world?

According to data published by the European Union’s climate change service Copernicus, this past 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded in human history with June

Biodiversity

Biodiversity: What is it and how can we protect it?

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) describes it as “the diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems, including plants, animals, bacteria, and

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Sustainable waste management through behavioral science: Case studies around the world

Water is Life” – Working with Habene Community Members to Revive a Life-Giving Water Source

How the Minamata Convention is aiming to end mercury’s millennia-long toxic run

Navigating the opportunities and risks of solar irrigation: The importance of comprehensive accounting and smart regulations

Eight ways Asia is using nature to adapt to the climate crisis

Green financing allows women in Nepal to shape their own futures

GCA and the World Economic Forum host Business Dialogue on Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Davos

Solar powered water pumps support pastoralists’ livelihoods in times of climate crisis

How is satellite data revolutionizing the way we track greenhouse gas emissions around the world?

Biodiversity: What is it and how can we protect it?

Sentinels of Environment

Sentinels of Environment

Sentinels of Environment

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