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GCA partners with African Development Bank to cultivate sustainable growth in Mozambique’s Agri-Food Value Chains

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) announced its collaboration with the African Development Bank on the Inclusive Agri-Food Value Chain Development Program (PROCAVA), a

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Inside the high-tech effort to save the world’s dwindling sand reserves

Launched by UNEP in September 2023, the Marine Sand Watch has uncovered what Peduzzi calls “worrying” trends. Among them, over the last decade, about

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Why aren’t we recycling more plastic?

In many countries, you can find the universally recognized recycling symbol – three chasing arrows – on plastic products. But not every plastic item

Sustainability

In Conversation with the founder of Ecopia: Market Place for Ethiopian Organic Farmers

In Conversation with the founder of Ecopia: Market Place for Ethiopian Organic Farmers Ecopia was founded in 2006 by two Ethiopian women at a

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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

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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

Sustainability

Growing African vegetables on buildings can save space and feed cities

As cities grow, more people need food. However, space for farming is limited in cities. Building facades can offer a solution for growing food.

Energy

South Africa and renewable energy: a 12-year-old programme offers insights for countries moving to cleaner power sources

The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme is still considered a pathbreaker. Many have seen it as a blueprint because of its success

Water

Wetlands are superheroes: expert sets out how they protect people and places

In the past, wetlands were often seen as undesirable landscapes – waterlogged areas that were difficult to navigate, impossible to build on or farm,

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Nigeria’s plastic ban: why it’s good and how it can work

Two weeks into January 2024, Nigerian authorities took steps to curb environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution in the country. The Federal Ministry of Environment

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GCA partners with African Development Bank to cultivate sustainable growth in Mozambique’s Agri-Food Value Chains

Inside the high-tech effort to save the world’s dwindling sand reserves

Why aren’t we recycling more plastic?

In Conversation with the founder of Ecopia: Market Place for Ethiopian Organic Farmers

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

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

Growing African vegetables on buildings can save space and feed cities

South Africa and renewable energy: a 12-year-old programme offers insights for countries moving to cleaner power sources

Wetlands are superheroes: expert sets out how they protect people and places

Nigeria’s plastic ban: why it’s good and how it can work

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Sentinels of Environment

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