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How have natural corks stayed on top of the wine world? Antonio Amorim’s efforts to make the cork business more innovative and sustainable have a lot to do with it. For centuries, cork has been the primary method of closing wine bottles. Then in the late 20th century came cheaper stoppers and—though not without some controversy—the value end of the market was suddenly awash in bottles…

Food systems contribute to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. While we can’t phase out food in the same way we can fossil fuels, we can transform food systems so that they have net-zero emissions, restore nature, and boost resilience. In a joint open letter published this week, WWF, The Food Systems Partnership, and the Food and Land Use Coalition, amongst…

The report finds that while countries in the region have attempted to integrate the SDGs into national strategies and development policies, “efforts at the subnational level tend to adopt national priorities without critical appraisal of their relevance to the needs and opportunities specific to the local context”. To address this gap, the guidelines suggest concrete actions to…

Governments will review global progress made toward achieving land degradation neutrality as well as work on other UNCCD strategic objectives, including sustainable land management, drought resilience, ensuring fair land rights for women, and tackling sand and dust storms and wildfires. At least 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land are lost each year, according to new UN data…

Highlights While the Amazon rainforest is one of the planet's main lungs, the Amazon River and its hundreds of tributaries are its arteries and veins, but now dried up and depriving hundreds of thousands of people of a decent living. The Rio Negro in Manaus is at its lowest level ever since it has been monitored (1902) amid what is considered the most severe drought ever…

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) produces two regular climate-related assessments, the Adaptation Gap Report and the Emissions Gap Report, while partnering with other groups on a third, the Production Gap Report. They analyze the state of the climate and provide policymakers with a roadmap for action, often being cited by heads of state and negotiators at the annual UN…