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The gravity of the climate emergency can no longer be ignored. For many years people thought that we could not afford to change the whole business system. What every single study on climatechange over the last few years has shown us is that what we really cannot...
Poor landfill planning results in the proliferation of uncontrolled landfills and the existence of a considerable number of closed landfills that continue to pollute and endanger the environment and human health. Different toxicological assessments of closed landfills...
To achieve a circular economy system, consumers have to think about what they need to buy and opt for more environmentally friendly solutions. Businesses, for their part, have a crucial role to play, as they can choose to make environmentally friendly choices with a...
Currently, islands face major challenges related to waste management and energy availability, where the characteristics of each island play a significant role. Most islands are not self-sufficient, as they have to be supplied by ships from the mainland to provide the...
Plastic waste exceeds 10 billion tonnes and is one of the biggest environmental threats. Despite the efforts of many people and some companies, the consumption of plastics continues to increase every year. To reduce environmental difficulties, industry and households...
Water is the most important resource on which most of the flora and fauna of our precious planet depend. Some curiosities about water: ✓ The amount of water on Earth is equivalent to 1.5 billion cubic kilometres. If distributed evenly over the Earth's surface, its...
Green bonds are a boost to the green transition. In recent years, humans have been facing one of the most serious threats in history. This is global warming and it could bring about the end of planet Earth. Unlike other threats, humans have caused it. Neither the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered another pandemic, but of sanitary waste. Because of this, the WHO has produced a report in which it refers to this problem. Both the healthcare and household sectors use a large number of single-use medical devices. Therefore, this...
According to Forbes, the energy transition will move a total of $18 trillion for 2030. The reason for that is an increase in socially responsible and sustainable investment. These investments are assets committed to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics....
The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge recently published the annual report on municipal waste generation for 2018 with some striking figures. The country generated 22.2 million tons of municipal waste of which 53.4% ended up in...
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All over the world there is an excess of accumulated waste plus more being...
Japan, The United Arab Emirates and several European countries are some of the...
UN-Habitat's World Cities Report 2022 warns that urban areas are responsible...