For the world’s growing urban populations, the ‘new normal’ must mean better and sustainable places to live and work, and ways to travel, for all – not just a privileged few
Category: Climate
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Space-D: Innovation for the SDGs
Middle East and Northern Africa
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is harnessing the power of space
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Six years after signing up to sustainable development and climate action, are countries’ plans fit for purpose to make long-term change?
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Climate is just one of nine identified ‘planetary boundaries’, beyond which humanity’s future comes under threat. We must ensure the SDGs succeed within these critical limits
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Weaning the world off fossil fuels
Middle East and Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
What is holding up progress on the transition to carbon neutrality, and what must we do to speed it up?
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Farming for the future
Europe
Origin Green is creating a template for sustainable food production in Ireland that is science-based and quantifiable
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Ramping up renewable energy
Global
This Decade of Action demands a decisive shift from polluting to renewable energy. We need robust political, economic, and technological levers and deeper sectoral collaboration if we’re to bring clean power to all
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With the impacts of climate change ramping up, building resilience, particularly in developing countries and small island states, is now critical and urgent. We must convert our knowledge of climate solutions into priority actions now to achieve rapid and sustainable transformations
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How can we ensure that a healthy extractives industry delivers on the SDGs?
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Technologies like wind power and photovoltaic solar have advanced from expensive, subsidized, niche technology to wide-scale, commercially competitive solutions. We must learn from this rapid innovation to speed up the next generation of technologies
