Negotiations to deliver the world’s first binding plastics treaty ended in Geneva on August 15 with no agreement, sparking frustration from environmental groups and several governments.Over 180 nations gathered for 11 days under a UN mandate to tackle the escalating…
France’s Gravelines nuclear power station, a sprawling 5.4-gigawatt complex on the North Sea coast, faced an unlikely adversary: jellyfish.Dense bloom swept into the plant’s cooling water intake, clogging filters and triggering an automatic shutdown of four reactors. The remaining two…
India’s race against climate change just got a price tag $2.4 trillion. That’s how much the country needs to invest by 2050 to make its rapidly growing cities livable, resilient, and low-carbon, according to a new World Bank report.The challenge…
A new report by Kept Engineering paints a stark picture of global water security: over 25% of the world’s population lives in countries that deplete nearly all their available freshwater annually. By 2050, water demand is projected to grow by…
In 2015, countries adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, build sustainable cities, and take climate action. Yet not everyone can afford a sustainable future. A decade on, the world marks a milestone with the 2025 Sustainable…
A new report by the Grantham Institute has found that climate change tripled the number of heat-related deaths during the extreme heatwave that struck 12 major European cities from June 23 to July 2, 2025.Across cities like Paris, Madrid, Milan,…
Serbia is taking a major leap toward sustainable waste management. The French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have pledged €300 million in loans to build seven regional waste management centers, benefiting 47 municipalities…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is going digital — and it could reshape how the world reports on sustainability.GRI has launched its first-ever Sustainability Taxonomy, () a fully machine-readable version of its reporting standards, built on the XBRL format. The…
South Africa’s green hydrogen ambitions took a decisive leap forward as the Hive Hydrogen Coega project secured up to USD 20 million in early-stage investment from the SA-H2 Fund. This marks the fund’s first-ever investment and sets the stage for…