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share this viewpoint This viewpoint was created byWilly Legrand, Professor of Hospitality Management at the IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany Responsible travel: How do we make booking sustainable hotels easier? Evidence shows that spending time in nature helps reducing anxiety, improving mental health and well-being, let alone boosting physical health. Nature is good for us; can we be good to nature too? Its no wonder that one recent large-scale survey conducted by Booki...

1 February 2021 (UNEP)* — In February 2021, representatives of the 193 Member States of the UN, businesses leaders, civil society and environmentalists from around the world will come together virtually for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest environmental decision-making body. Photo by UNEP / 01 Feb 2021 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) answers frequently-asked questions about this biennial assembly, which aims to galvanize internatio...

World leaders set for pivotal environmental assembly Photo by UNEP / 01 Feb 2021 In February 2021, representatives of the 193 Member States of the UN, businesses leaders, civil society and environmentalists from around the world will come together virtually for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s highest environmental decision-making body. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) answers frequently-asked questions about this biennial assembly, which aim...

NationofChange The rich, the poor and climate change The environmental crisis is a great deal more serious, it is the challenge of the age and demands a coordinated global response. Image Credit: Getty Images Only the most deluded denier can now question that the global climate is dramatically changing, and that the chaos is man-made. Extreme weather events—wildfires, drought, intense heat, hurricanes—are becoming more frequent, the impact on ecosystems and biodiversity, populat...

Among the many hard truths exposed by COVID-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. As economies went into freefall, the world’s billionaires increased their already huge fortunes by 27.5%. And as many ordinary people lost their jobs and fell into poverty, The Guardian reported “the 1% are coping” by taking private jets to their luxury retreats. Such perverse affluence further fuelled criticism of the so-called 1%, which has long been the standard rhetoric of the pol...

Circular economy can slash global emissions by 39%, says major new report A major new report, released to coincide with the original dates for the World Economic Forums event in Davos, has found that 39% of global annual emissions could be mitigated by changing the ways in which we use natural raw materials. Circle Economy has repeatedly stated that the majority of global annual emissions are released during the extraction of materials and manufacturing of goods Produced annually by think-tank ...

Date Time Building Resilience in a Warming World – Global Adaptation Summit 25 UN Climate Change News, 22 January 2021 – Leaders are set to galvanize action to build resilience to the inevitable impacts of climate change at an online global conference 25 and 26 January. Such impacts included extreme weather, wildfires and floods that have become more frequent with rising temperatures worldwide. The Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021, hosted by the Netherlands and led by former UN Secretar...

Solutions for a planet in crisis Unsplash/Mark Divier / 20 Jan 2021 Speech prepared for delivery at the London School of Economics Public Lecture   Right now, COVID-19 is front and centre of our concerns. The pandemic has devasted lives and economies. It has highlighted income inequalities, with the rich growing richer and the poor growing poorer. It has put in sharp relief the environmental inequalities facing minorities. But as we seek to overcome this terrible pandemic, we must do so in the...

Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 16.13 EST The first time Kirk McClain helped with the homeless count in King county, Washington, he himself had been living unsheltered for five years. He said he remembers stepping out at 2am on a surprisingly warm day in January 2014 along with the handful of others he was paired with, and the surreal feeling of looking under bridges and along a highway to search for those living in parallel circumstances to his own. After three hours, his group identified abo...

The poor are disproportionately vulnerable to its effects since they lack the resources to quickly recover.