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In 2020, Mexico issued a decree banning the importation and use of genetically engineered corn (GE corn) in Mexico. This ban, set to enter into force…

In 2020, Mexico issued a decree banning the importation and use of genetically engineered corn (GE corn) in Mexico. This ban, set to enter fully into force on Jan. 31, 2024, threatens...

With the global community looking forward to the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27, which opened on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Kenyan President William Ruto has already made climate change a key agenda for his new administration. His debut commitment is to have Kenya attain a 30 percent forest cover by 2032.

Unless the new CSR is stopped, these anti-free market and statist proponents may push CSR beyond the point of no return—from voluntary to mandatory.

Active participation by the business community is increasingly acknowledged as vital to sustainable development. The UN Global Compact is a framework for businesses. It compels participants to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, and to act in support of UN goals […]

Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company (ELDOWAS) maintains vital water services to Eldoret Municipality and environs in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. We speak to Peter Kibet arap Biwott, Managing Director, about the company’s life changing work in supply, water and sanitation

Much has been written, and rightly so, about the political impact, significance and legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022). However, in addition to his grand and historic roles in changing the shape of Europe and Russia, and bringing to an end a Cold War that threatened to end in nuclear annihilation and mutually assured destruction, Gorbachev was also an environmentalist.

The SDGs as a whole focus on too many tangential metrics or measure the symptoms of poverty rather than the causes.

From the blog of David Fernández Puyana at The Times of Israel

Toxic waste from America’s war is destroying Iraqi communities. The US owes them legally and morally.