UN: 17% of all food available at consumer levels is wasted
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Paris Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and […]
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Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report
UN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature’s
Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams
UN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada Enough energy to power all households in the USA
Experts warn booming seaweed industry
United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Beyond sushi wrap: Expanding number of valuable uses
Innovation and Its Enemies: How the history of margarine and tractors can inform policy making
Harvard Kennedy School / Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge MA 6 July 2016 Why important innovations stall;
Pollinators Vital to Our Food Supply Under Threat
IPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options
Vast energy value in human waste
United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of
World loses trillions of dollars worth of nature’s benefits each year due to land degradation
UN University – INWEH, Hamilton, Canada 15-SEP-2015 To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the
Investing ~3.5% GDP in science, technology, innovation: benchmark for sustainable development
UNSG’s Scientific Advisory Board Paris 9 July 2015 UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board calls for advisor, not observer seat for science
World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton CANADA 28-Oct-2014 Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20 percent of all irrigated lands