The sand dilemma: we depend on ‘dead’ sand for infrastructure and ‘alive’ sand for natural services Sand demand for buildings ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Large-scale forestation is key components of nature-based solutions to climate change, playing a vital role in advancing carbon neutrality and the ...

Rice paddies in the swamps and marshes maximize arable land, yielding food and economic security during the growing season. Innovative financial instruments can align financing with sustainability and ...

On July 24, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a one-day public workshop to examine challenges and opportunities for a just transition and sustainable ...

What Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In 2015 the United Nations created a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and ...

The United Nations issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a framework for organizing discussion and tracking progress toward global sustainability. The color of the map reflects ...

One of the best definitions I've found of our current climate, economic and sustainability crisis is depicted in Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions. Thunberg's account ...

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them. In 2015, the UN General ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...