Driving Change
Bangladesh became the first country to ban thin plastic bags in 2002 after they were found to have choked the nation’s drainage networks during its frequent floods. The move was emulated by nations including South
Driving Change
Protecting the health of the sea began moving up the policymaking agenda in the 1970s, thanks in part to headline-grabbing protests by NGOs such as Greenpeace. Arguably the first truly coherent all-of-government approach was Australia's
Driving Change
Saving endangered species has been on the global policy making agenda at least since 1963, when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature drafted the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Driving Change
The principle that the polluter should pay for repairing damage done to the environment is a good one, and increasingly recognized as best practice by policy makers. America's Superfund Act, passed in 1980, was a
Driving Change
This decade may be the last in which humanity has a chance, at least, to mitigate the effects of runaway climate change. After decades on the policy periphery, in recent times there have been a
Jessica Brown
Until the pandemic struck, 2020 was set to be a big year for saving the oceans. As the new decade dawned, spirits among the loose community of activists, scientists, policymakers and businesspeople who had built
Andrew Cave
Stephane Farouze has an even more improbable story than Alfred Jones, Ewan McGregor’s scientist in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. While that $35m-grossing romantic comedy about efforts to populate desert wadis with Scottish salmon focused on
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Since 2014, Gavin Schmidt has been director of the influential NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located in New York's Columbia University. One of the institute's key objectives is predicting atmospheric and climate changes in
Furqan Sayeed
There seems something Biblical about this year’s twin crises of COVID-19 pandemic and locust plagues in much of the world. Are the other two Horsemen of the Apocalypse already saddling up? Maybe – but in
Furqan Sayeed
In Pakistan, as the economy has struggled to cope with a Covid-19 lockdown, more than 63,000 jobs have been created since March for unemployed laborers known as “jungle workers” to plant saplings for 500 rupees
