Sustainability Tip: Recycle properly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The rules can be confusing, but doing it properly can have a hugely positive impact on the environment.
Source: www.vaildaily.com
The rules can be confusing, but doing it properly can have a hugely positive impact on the environment.
Source: www.vaildaily.com
Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
ESG criteria and its growing importance reflect the increasing awareness of the environmental and social consequences of both corporate and government actions alike. It’s time for financial services to make a difference in society by embracing “sustainable finance by design” and for that, they need a solid strategy.
In this video, Daniel Theobald, Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg, explains the crucial steps in creating one.
Pollination & human livelihoods Pollination is a keystone process in both human managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems. It is critical for food production and human livelihoods, and directly links wild ecosystems with agricultrual production systems. The vast majority of flowering plant species only produce seeds if animal pollination move pollen from the anthers to the stigmas of their flowers. Without this service, many interconnected species and processes functioning within an ecosystem would collapse. Highlights In Depth Understanding The more we know about pollinators, plant pollination services and the interactions between agro-ecosystems and pollination management, the more we can understand how to conserve them and manage them to maintain biodiversity, ensure ecosystem health and improve human livelihoods. Monitoring pollinator declines, monitoring pollinator deficits, assessing socio-economic values, pollinator identification and understanding plant/pollinator interactions expands the knowledge base. Managing Both wild and managed pollinator populations require habitat and forage resources in order to…
The Caribbean island of Dominica has just announced a far-reaching plan to crack down on plastic waste by banning single-use plastics and disposable styrofoam cups. Not only are the plans expansive, but also to be implemented very soon – starting January 2019.
Fashion’s recycled water-bottle sneakers and mushroom-leather belts aren’t shrinking the industry’s environmental footprint.
We talked to Marc Hazout of SusGlobal Energy about sustainable global management of the organic wastes and here is what he said about it. First of all, how are you and your family doing in these COVID-19 times? Marc Hazout: We are doing fine and are grateful that we are involved in an essential business which has seen no interruption. Tell us about you, your career, how you founded SusGlobal Energy.
Marc Hazout: My background is in the Capital Markets, and I run a private equity fund founded in 1998. We mostly invest in proprietary technology, and we were identifying circular economy models and decided to start a sustainable organic waste managing and processing company that produces regenerative products from organic waste such as fertilizers both dry compost or liquid fertilizer.