Original post on One Green Planet Plastic can be found in virtually every shape and form. It is a material that makes our lives incredibly convenient, but most people rarely think about the impact plastic has on the world around us. Unlike other materials, plastic never really goes away. We love plastic because it is […]
Original post on Telegraph UK Shocked Britons have vowed to ditch plastic bags and disposable straws after a heartbreaking scene in Sunday night’s Blue Planet. A pilot whale was filmed carrying her dead newborn baby around the ocean for days, reluctant to let go, after it was possibly poisoned by pollution in the oceans. David
Original post by Emily Willson for GreenBiz “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” This adage rings particularly true in the impact sector, where we know that the business of change is not easy. It requires us to constantly stretch ourselves in order to drive
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A couple of weeks ago, at the WIMBIZ Annual conference in Lagos, we emerged one of the winners of the WIMBIZ Impact Investment competition, the competition was set out to reduce female owned enterprises in the STEM sector in Nigeria with seed funding to scale up their businesses and to also be enrolled in the
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Original post on Mirror Millions of girls across Africa are facing a terrible choice brought on by severe climate change – be a child bride or die. Girls as young as 14 are forcibly placed with husbands they don’t love because their despairing fathers and mothers can no longer support them. Soaring temperatures, failing crops, droughts, floods, and scarce
Original post on Modern Ghana The call was made at a Green Finance conference organized by the African Guarantee Fund (AGF), International Trade Centre (ITC) and Nordic Development Fund (NDF) on November 21 in Accra. The conference was aimed at highlighting the positive financial and environmental benefits to be gained in the Green Economy,” said
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Original post on Phys.org Too little rain, or too much, is often a driver of poverty and hunger, leading to poor nutrition and food insecurity among vulnerable populations. According to a new study, rainfall patterns also provide clues on how to most effectively alleviate food insecurity. The study, to be published November 24 in Scientific Reports,
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Original post on Huffington Post “I am asking you to misbehave…” This was UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ plea to business during his opening of the High-Level Meeting of Caring for Climate, held during COP 23 — the annual UN climate conference — in Bonn last week. Generally, when the words “misbehave” and “business” appear together, we
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Original post on DW There are further indications that the release of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 could be traced back to the Mayak nuclear facility in the Ural region, a reprocessing site for spent nuclear fuel. Russian meteorological service Rosgidromet confirmed on Monday the release of Ru-106 in the southern Urals in late September and early October, classifying
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Original post on Quartz India’s major renewable energy push could be as much about poverty reduction and job creation as it is about energy security and climate change. The Narendra Modi government aims to install 175 gigawatts (GW, 1 GW = 1,000 megawatts) of renewable energy capacity in the country by 2022—and this is expected to create
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