Wildlife, climate and plastic: how three summits aim to repair a growing rift with nature: By the end of 2024, nearly 200 nations will have met at three conferences to address three problems: biodiversity loss, climate change and plastic pollution. Colombia will host talks next week to assess global progress in protecting 30% of all …
Climate summits are too big and key voices are being crowded out – here’s a better solution: Every year, the official UN climate summits are getting bigger. In 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow there were around 40,000 participants, COP27 in 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh had 50,000. But this year blew all previous records out of …
G20 summit’s plan to scare off monkeys by mimicking their ‘natural enemies’ may work – but not for the reasons it’s supposed to: Rhesus macaques are known for harassing people in cities. Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock The hosts of this year’s G20 summit in New Delhi, India, face a unique challenge: keeping monkeys from interfering with the …
Davos: three ways leaders can use these summits to create a more sustainable world: Davos 2023 is the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first in-person annual meeting since the start of the COVID pandemic. The yearly gathering sees business, political and civil society leaders convene in the Swiss mountain resort with academics, journalists and celebrities to …
G7 and Nato summits lay bare deep and hostile divide between Russia and China and the west: Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food crisis – western leaders have met for two major summits. …
Is it time to stop climbing mountains? Obsession with reaching summits is a modern invention: Engraving from John Chardin's Travels into Persia and the East Indies, 1686, showing Mount Ararat, Turkey. As a historian of mountains in Europe, I have been struck by the environmental questions raised by the pandemic. Early in lockdown, news outlets …
Food Valley Summits: Proteins of the Future | Sports & Nutrition, 10-11 Oct – a Sport interest event taking place on 2018-10-10 09:00:00 in Netherlands DAY 1PROTEINS OF THE FUTUREWEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER The food industry and governments are aware that plant proteins hold enormous potential – but how can consumers be convinced to change their …
South Africa in the news: Sushma Swaraj leaves for South Africa on 5-day visit; to attend BRICS, IBSA ministerial summits: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday left for South Africa on a five-day visit, where she will meet the top leadership of the country. She will also attend the BRICS and the IBSA ministerial …