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Mexico City to ban plastic bags, utensils, and other single-use disposable plastic items. The ban on plastic bags will take effect in December 2020. The ban on straws, utensils, balloons and other single-use items will take effect in January 2021.
Recent survey of asset managers and owners incorporating ESG strategies finds that the majority of investors in the Asia Pacific region are aligning their ESG investment framework with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data and technology costs remain barriers
Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history, caused by the decline of nature globally at rates unprecedented in human history, with grave impacts on people
The SDG Global Festival of Action took place between 2-4 May 2019 bringing together more than 1,500 political decision-makers, activists, experts, business leaders and creatives from over 130 countries. The Festival, organized by the UN SDG Action Campaign, aims to share
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a sister organization of the World Bank, has estimated that up to $26tn could be available for impact investing. In the new report, Creating Impact: The Promise of Impact Investing, there are as much as $268
The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with a third of global power capacity now based on renewable energy. New data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows annual increase of 7.9
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has published a report analysing progress for 93 environment-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators. The report finds that “good progress” has been made for 23% of these indicators, and that it is “likely” that these
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