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Plastic attacks hit Swiss supermarkets (Le News)
Swiss shoppers dump plastic wrapping at supermarkets to protest excessive plastic packaging. Plastic Attacks, which began at Tesco in Keynsham near Bristol, UK, have occurred in Sion, Pully, Zurich, Bern and elsewhere…
Jai Jagat 2020
🇨🇭🇮🇳🇬🇧 The Jai Jagat 2020 Campaign will begin in New Delhi in October 2019 and ultimately arrive at UN Office in Geneva in September 2020 – lend your support !
GEN Geneva this week
Check the list here to see the events taking place this week in and around Geneva – it’s non-exhaustive.
EU bans pesticides which harms bees
EU agrees to total ban on neonicotinoids, bee-harming pesticides, by the end of 2018.
Recommended posts contributed by the Sustainability World community:
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We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised.
This short article reviews the possible causes of widespread obesity. It refutes much ‘conventional wisdom’ and puts the blame squarely on sugar and the food industry.
Tracking the SDGs
How are we doing in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? See the SDG Tracker which shows data for all indicators from the Our World in Data database
Is the world is going in the right direction ?
Oxford economist Max Roser, shares three facts that everyone should know.
Climate change: effects
Temperatures have increased +0.07°C (+0.13°F) per decade since 1880, the Industrial Revolution. Since 1981 the that increase is more than twice that rate (+0.18°C or +0.32°F).
Initiatives, campaigns and petitions of interest:
Can Covid help flatten the climate curve ?
What if covid does not merely knock back consumption, energy use, particularly fossil fuels, CO2 emissions, but reshapes the notion of “normal” and our return to it ?
Viruses’ impacts on us
A tenth of the human genome is viral in origin, but viruses “kill more living things than any other type of predator”.
A virus is a curious thing – are viruses living or not ? Are they benefactors or protagonists ?
Scientists’ warning on affluence
The world’s richest citizens are responsible for most environmental impacts: for the environment, “we can’t afford to be rich”.
Climate Change – a video to help us all understand it
In the year 2019 we pumped out about 37 billion tonnes of carbonb dioxide, 50% more than the year 2000 and almost three times as much as 50 years ago.
Who’s responsible and who needs To fix It?
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