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Today’s ESG Updates The UK’s Net Zero Economy Delivers Higher Wages: The UK’s £105 billion net zero economy supports 1.1 million total jobs. Rosneft First Quarter Net Income Skyrockets: Rosneft’s net earnings jumped sevenfold to 115 billion roubles due to high oil prices. Gigascale Capital Launches $250 Million Climate Fund: Founded by Meta’s former CTO,
For more than two decades, I have heard a familiar refrain in conversations about biodiversity and development: “Nature is important, but we need to prioritize jobs and economic growth.” It is often framed as an inevitable trade-off — as though protecting ecosystems only comes at the expense of prosperity. But the evidence points in the
Deforestation has slowed in all of the world’s regions in the last decade, according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 (FRA 2025) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Released every five years, the 2025 edition of the report was published today during the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Plenary in
Taylor Swift, K-pop, and others have appealed to worldwide audiences, in the hundreds of millions, and are truly modern-day phenomena. At the same time, the audiences for classical music have been in decline for decades, accelerated by anxieties during the COVID pandemic, which tended to increasingly limit subscriptions, albeit probably less so among younger populations.
In March, at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, UN member states adopted the historic resolution to “End Plastic Pollution,” paving the way for the establishment of the first global, legally-binding plastic pollution treaty. "In March, the global community agreed to establish a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution. To deliver
In 2017, UN Chief António Guterres opened the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA)stating that as a result of climate change, “extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and severe.” 5 years later, at the 77th UNGA this week, his opening speech was instead a sobering depiction of how this previous caution
The concept of One Health – the intersection of animal, human, and the environment – has been around for some time. Recently, it has taken on heightened interest because in addition to the worldwide COVID pandemic which has dominated lives everywhere, there is now a global outbreak of Monkeypox which, on July 23 this year,
That the Arctic has been warming faster than the rest of the world in previous decades is no news; as a group of Finish scientists writes in their new study, this is “considered a robust fact” nowadays and the phenomenon even has a name: Arctic amplification. Previous studies on Arctic warming, however, proved that it
There is good news in that, at the global level, there has been increased attention and deliberation about One Health and how to find common ground to operationalize it. As I will show here, expansion of the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) could solve the problem. A significant milestone was achieved when four international organizations, WHO,
Firstly, Why Are Bees So Important? Besides the health benefits that bees offer to us, the function of bees is also very important for the environment. Bees pollinate our plants, which means that they carry pollen between plants of different sexes to fertilize them, or even between different parts of the same plant, which help
The leaders of the richest part of the world, the G20, announced yesterday that they, along with big drugmakers, would do more to end Covid vaccine inequities. This happened at the Global health summit in Rome, a special event organized by the Italian G20 Presidency in partnership with the European Commission, which took place virtually
Can Biden mop up Trump’s disastrous legacy and enable America to make a comeback? Many see him as a savior, as coming to the rescue of a broken America. Make everything right again. A big task. As we all know, Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration, the first outgoing leader to do so since the 19th century,