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Why Countries Are Desperate To Defy the Odds and Access Mars
Getting there takes seven months, and landing on a surface where the average temperature is about -60°C involves “seven minutes of terror.” Who could resist? Despite the obstacles, active exploration of Mars has ramped up of late – pushing scientific discovery forward and potentially…
Helping Small Go Big: Mainstreaming What Happens in the Margins
With only a decade of action left for the sustainable development agenda, UNDP is looking beyond business as usual, to find new ways to learn from the margins, and to look into radically new approaches that fit the complexity of development challenges. One of those new approaches…
In the Textile Industry, Old Is Increasingly Becoming New
A clothing company in the Philippines that uses scrap material to make shoes. A technology startup in Ireland that allows strangers to swap little-used clothes. And a fashion house in Brazil that produces zero waste and repurposes old clothes into new ones. These are three of…
Young Change-Makers will Power Circular Economy Innovation in Hubs Around the World
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, a new circular approach is needed to transform the goods and services we have and the pipeline of innovations still to come. To support this effort, circular economy initiative “Scale360°” will launch…
The Circular Economy Can Help Save the Planet – if We Start Innovating Now
As we begin 2021, businesses face a complex matrix of challenges – from rising geo-economic tensions to the urgency of the climate crisis. With less than ten years to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Decade to…
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Waste management is a sector that, in addition to improving the environment, has the potential to improve the economy. The authorities increasingly understand the importance and benefits of the “circulation” of the economy. For this reason, besides the recycling, they encourage the…
World Leaders Set for Pivotal Environmental Assembly
In February 2021, representatives of the 193 Member States of the UN, businesses leaders, civil society and environmentalists from around the world will come together virtually for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest…