Courtesy of Forests News
Written by: Julie Mollins
Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation activities.
Known as “climate finance” under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the idea of mobilizing funds from countries in the global...
Written by: Kimberly White
Amazon has launched its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. Through the fund, Amazon aims to bolster the development of sustainable technologies to help companies achieve carbon neutrality.
The Climate Pledge Fund will invest in companies from a...
Written by: Hans Nicholas Jong
Environmental watchdogs have welcomed a zero-deforestation pledge by South Korean trading giant POSCO International with regard to its palm oil operations in Indonesia’s Papua province, following years of razing the land.
Under its “No Deforestation,...
Courtesy of Landscape News
Written by: Monica Evans
Bamboo might seem an unusual material from which to build bikes, but for young Ghanaian entrepreneur Bernice Dapaah, the idea was easy to come by. “When I was very young, I...
Written by: The Energy Mix
The coal, oil, and gas industries received US$5.9 trillion in worldwide subsidies in 2020—a mind-bending $11.2 million per minute, every minute of every hour of every day in the year—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed...
Written by: Alex Kirby
If the climate crisis keeps you awake at night, the impact of what we casually throw away is sure to have you worried: it makes global heating a lot worse. But Chile’s waste bus is managing...
Written by: Karen Scofield Seal
Demand for plant-based food and nutrition is growing. According to recent retail sales data, grocery sales of plant-based foods in place of animal products grew 29 percent in the US to $5 billion between 2017 and...
Written by: Kimberly White
On April 1st, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) announced that Jeffrey Hollender is stepping in as the organization’s new CEO.
Founded in 2009, the ASBC is a network of businesses and business associations in the...
Written by: YCC Team
Corner stores, daycares, auto mechanics … small businesses provide vital services to communities.
But many are vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather as the climate warms.
Moritz-Chapelliquen: “As more and more disruptions end up happening … they have to...
Written by: Kimberly White
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he is committing $10 billion to help tackle the climate crisis through the launch of the Bezos Earth Fund.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want...












