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We’ve known for some time that our planet from space is more blue than green. Yet the global ocean still remains largely a mystery. Fishing activity in particular has long been hard to monitor, and the full extent of its global reach has remained mostly unknown, until now.
For Earth Hour 2018, at 8.30pm local time on March 24th, we are inviting the world to #Connect2Earth to spark a global conversation about our relationship with nature and how we can live more sustainably. For business, this means asking what your company or sector can do for nature and sustainability rather than what they can do for you, and how enterprise can serve purpose and responsibility.
Used in hundreds of everyday items, from clothes and bed linen to mattresses, towels and even bank notes, cotton is ever present in our lives. It is a key raw material for the textile industry and represents about 30% of all fibre used in the sector. Globally, around 30 million hectares are planted with cotton, accounting for more than 2% of total arable land3, and producing approximately 25 million metric tonnes (MT) of cotton annually. Grown in around 80 countries, more than 100 million households around the world are directly engaged in cotton cultivation, relying on it for their income. Full report and summary here: http://www.sustainablecottonranking.org/
We should embrace the revolution — but beyond radical transparency, automation, smart contracting and elimination of uncertainty and blind trust, only the vision and ingenuity of people and partnerships can realise the true potential of blockchain technology for our wellbeing, enterprise and future prosperity.
At the heart of all our work are 'heroes' - passionate people dedicated to delivering effective and lasting conservation. With the conservation community, these inspirational partners are our greatest asset. Without them, we could not achieve our mission. Read some of our heroes' stories here – find out more about their incredible work, what makes them unique partners, what challenges they face, and their hopes for the future.
During the race at Penrith Lakes, as our crew worked together for the 5 minutes and 47.91 seconds it took us to cover the 2000m course and cross the line utterly spent, I knew – and felt in my bones – that we were giving all that we possibly could. At the finish, there was nothing left in the tank. Securing silver was absolutely the best result we could have achieved. For me, there have never been any ‘what ifs’.
Investing in People and Nature. We support conservation that benefits people and nature – by funding and working closely with select partners in the Mediterranean, West Africa and Switzerland.
Nevertheless, recycling is only one part of the solution. And BTR can’t change the system or create a circular economy on its own. This is fantastic work of which Bristol...
Natural Connection and Universal Truth in Wild Places — in conversation with James Morgan James Morgan is an award-winning film director and photographer whose clients include Apple, the BBC, and National Geographic.
Benoa Harbour in Bali is one of Indonesia’s main tuna fishing ports. Every day of the year, hundreds of yellowfin and bigeye tuna are landed by longliner boats that have spent several weeks at sea. And its fishers are rightly proud of their catch.
History, partnership and calculated risk in times of change for the FSC Ideas shape the course of history. And as we approach the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) 25th anniversary, we should remind ourselves of the ideas and ambitions that have made forest and market history. A failure to tackle social exclusion, rampant deforestation and illegal logging in tropical forests in the 1980s, paired with a weak outcome on forests at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit gave birth to something extraordinary .
Towards a more sustainable cotton market The Sustainable Cotton Ranking 2017 gives you insight in how 75 companies from all continents score on their policy, traceability and actual uptake of sustainable cotton. The ranking highlights opportunities for improvement in order to accelerate transformation of the cotton market towards sustainability.
– how WWF and IKEA are marrying commerce and conservation in Maramureș, Romania, and helping protect some of Europe’s last remaining old growth forests. Photographs by iLCP Fellow James Morgan, words by Justin Woolford for WWF.
“If you want a confession, I found God and His creation, pure nature, in the old growth forest. And at that moment I decided I had to do everything possible to protect it so my children could see it for real, not just in books and museums.” Radu Vlad, Forest & Regional Project Co-ordinator for WWF’s Danube-Carpathian Programme, cuts an imposing figure, unmistakably a man of the Transylvanian forests he’s been campaigning to protect for over a decade. Those in the ancient county of Maramureș in t
“It all starts with the seedlings!” says Le Thi Thuy Nga (left), the manager of Tien Phong forestry company in central Vietnam’s Thừa Thiên-Huế province. “All of ours are propagated...
– why Forest Stewardship Council certification and World Heritage recognition are both critical in the fight for Europe’s ancient beech forests.
We conserve biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature by funding, mobilising and strengthening our partners and the conservation community.
With a particular focus on partner financial autonomy, the report targets practitioners in two of MAVA’s priority regions – coastal West Africa and the Mediterranean – and aims to: profile the wide range of financing mechanisms available for biodiversity conservation; and provide insight into how these mechanisms could support, sustain and amplify biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
Strong, light, flexible, attractive and renewable, wood is perhaps the ultimate raw material. Integral to our lives for millennia, its future uses are bound only by the limits of our collective imagination. Tomorrow morning we might clean our teeth with recyclable wood fibre brushes in front of nano-crystal mirrors made from wood-based composites. Then, at breakfast, read the news electronically on the wood-based semi-conducting polymeric screen built into kitchen tables. And later at work, use fibre-based displays that change according to our schedules and moods.
