Foodorama is a documentary by Kalima Hammond and Sylvain Leurent, who travelled over 20,000 km across North and South America on their recumbent bicycles to meet people involved in sustainable food production. Their aim is to showcase effective, practical initiatives that can help us continue to eat healthily while preserving our planet.
The central element of the response to climate change is the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies and hydrogen, complemented by carbon capture. COP26 in Glasgow emphasized the urgency and necessity of greater ambition on climate issues. Author Daniel Yergin uses a story about a prize refused by the North Face brand to remind us that the energy transition is much more complicated than we think.
While there is no doubt that governments and businesses represent the biggest lever for action to keep global warming to 1.5°C, a recent report shows that citizens can do their bit too. In fact, these six eco-gestures adopted by individuals and communities could account for 25-27% of the emissions reductions needed to reach this target, with a dose of happiness to boot!
Negotiators met last week at the United Nations headquarters in New York to draw up a new treaty on the oceans. According to scientists and environmentalists, this is a “unique” opportunity to protect the high seas from exploitation. Described by one of them as the most important ocean protection agreement in four decades, the aim is to agree a legal framework for the protection of international waters, essential to “life as we know it”.
The war in Ukraine is complicating the supply of wheat, corn and sunflower oil for countries dependent on Ukrainian and Russian production. Soaring prices for synthetic fertilizers, cereals and animal feed are a major concern for farmers, especially livestock breeders. Against this backdrop, intensive farming unions are calling for a fundamental rethink of the European “Farm to Fork” strategy.
Research by the American NGO Mighty Earth shows that Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have lost 2% and 3.9% respectively of their forest cover – the size of Madrid, Seoul or Chicago – since a commitment made in 2019 by the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), whose partners include Swiss chocolate manufacturers.
The EcoBeautyScore consortium set up last September by Unilever, L’Oreal, Henkel, LVMH and Natura & Co has now been joined by a number of other major health and beauty companies. This collaboration, which now includes 36 companies, including P&G and Beiersdorf, owner of Nivea and Elastoplast, aims to develop an industrial system for measuring and communicating the environmental impact of products.
While the first part of the report focused on the “physical scientific foundations” of the Earth’s changing climate, the second part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report presents the latest data on the impacts of climate change and ways of adapting to them. In this article, Carbon Brief asked a group of scientists who contributed to the new report what they thought were the key points to remember.
Ukrainian meteorologist and IPCC member Svitlana Romanko declared after the Russian invasion that “climate change and conflicts have the same roots: fossil fuels”. While 36% of Russia’s revenue comes from oil and gas exports, NGOs are denouncing a “war machine” fueled by fossil fuels. Europe is waking up and wants to get out of this dependency, but will it do so soon enough for Ukraine?
Heads of state, environment ministers and other representatives from 175 nations approved a landmark resolution at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in Nairobi to end plastic pollution and draw up a legally binding international agreement by 2024. The resolution covers the entire life cycle of plastics, i.e. production, use and disposal.
