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After Paris: Fiscal, Macroeconomic, and Financial Implications of Climate Change
The December 2015 Paris Agreement lays the foundation for Meaningful progress on addressing climate change - now the focus must turn to the practical policy implementation issues. Against this background, this paper takes stock of (...)
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The lazy person's guide to saving the world
End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. The Global Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders (...)
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New Regulation to boost the use of organic and waste-based fertilisers
Why is there a need for a revised Fertilisers Regulation?
The reuse of raw materials that are now disposed as waste is one of the key principles of the Circular Economy Package adopted in December (...)
Is it really green?
Many ‘green’ claims for building materials are made, but how can you be sure of their accuracy? The first edition of The Green Guide series in 1996 aimed to provide a simple, generic ‘green guide’ to the environmental impacts (...)
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Four crops feed the world
From over half a million plant species on the planet, we currently rely on just four crops (wheat, rice, maize and soybean) for more than three-quarters of our food supply. These `major’ crops are grown in a limited number of exporting countries (...)
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Green Hotelier Awards 2016 winners named
Green Hotelier is delighted to announce the winners of the Green Hotelier Awards 2016. These properties are in the judges’ opinions the greenest hotels around the world from the swathe of applicants we received this year (...)
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