Regulations

South Sudan small-scale producers receive support from IFAD to safeguard their livelihoods in the face of the COVID-19 crisis

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide much needed funding to assist 23,900 vulnerable rural people (4,780 households) in the Republic of South Sudan. The IFAD grant will help reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their farming activities and safeguard their livelihoods.

Siegwerk joins two initiatives to promote circularity in packaging

Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels has, during the first quarter of 2021, joined two important initiatives to promote circularity in packaging. The company is thus consistently pursuing its strategic direction to become a company for circular packaging solutions.

SGP Foundation earns GuideStar Silver recognition for nonprofits

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications, announced today that its sister organization, SGP Foundation Inc, earned the Silver GuideStar Nonprofit Profile Seal of Transparency. This is the second level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information. SGP Foundation is moving forward in its mission to provide education and awareness of sustainability best practices to the printing industry.

5 reasons why biodiversity matters for our jobs, health and economy

By Akanksha Khatri, Head of the Nature Action Agenda at the World Economic Forum

Biodiversity is declining fast than at any other time in history and this has grave consequences on our livelihoods, health and prosperity.

Virtual Ocean Dialogues 2021 to Focus on Climate, Food and Nature

Innovation and targeted policy improvements for the ocean are at the forefront of the second Virtual Ocean Dialogues, the online summit to fast-track actions to improve ocean and planetary health hosted by the World Economic Forum, Friends of Ocean Action and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean.

EU chemicals strategy should simplify procedures and complement existing legislation to make it more effective

Europe is the second biggest producer of chemicals in the world, accounting for 16.9% of global sales. Chemical manufacturing is the fourth largest industry in the EU with 30,000 companies (95% of which are SMEs) and employs 1.2 million people directly and 3.6 indirectly.

European Commission and UNEP set out cooperation priorities to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution in Latin America and...

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced common priorities for environmental cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the next five years, aimed at tackling the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in the context of the region’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery.

UNEP and Google partner to hunt for plastic pollution with machine learning

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that it is working to fight plastic pollution using citizen science and machine learning, with technical advisory support from Google. With Google’s support, UNEP will create a new machine learning model that reveals a more detailed and accurate view of plastic pollution in the Mekong River.

Mark Carney, UN Race to Zero campaign, COP26 Presidency launch Net Zero Financial Alliance

Industry-led and UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance also announced today, co-launched by the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Financial Services Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative

Accelerating the energy transition would benefit the environment and the economy in Panama

A new study by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) shows that integrating the energy transition as part of the post-COVID-19 stimulus and recovery plans will trigger significant benefits, not only for the environment and human health, but also for the economy, including the creation of new jobs.