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A Bright Energy Future Beckons Many Developing Nations

ApaNa October 6, 2020

Africa is a vast and diverse continent with great untapped economic potential, yet extreme poverty continues to blight the lives of hundreds of millions of people. As many as 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity, according to the World Bank.…

Creating A Circular Economy For Toys

ApaNa October 3, 2020

Solutions to design out waste and pollution

Is Plastics Recycling A Lie?

ApaNa September 23, 2020

Is plastics recycling a lie? That’s the question at the heart of a new investigation into whether Americans have been filling up their blue bins with misplaced hope. The evidence on the side of recycling doesn’t look good. As far back as…

CANARI Ready to Support Caribbean Governments Strengthen Environmental Governance

ApaNa September 23, 2020

Port of Spain, September 22, 2020 – September 26, 2020 marks the end of the official period for signatures on the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (widely known…

Coral Reef Restoration Alliance Protecting Coral Reefs in Barbados

ApaNa September 21, 2020

Interview with Susan Mahon, President, CORALL,, Barbados

Need To Tackle Impact of Likely Electric Car Battery Production Boom: UN

ApaNa June 28, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD, to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to…

Circular Economy: A Tannery Makes Leather from Billy Goats | The Guardian

ApaNa April 4, 2020

Jack Millington walks past two huge industrial-style wooden tanning drums, through a door into the well-insulated drying room. Here, at 35C, amid the whirring of the dehumidifier and one small electric heater, hides from billy goats are stretched out on racks to…

Towards A Circular Economy: Beyond Recycling

ApaNa March 4, 2020

The rallying call for action to reduce plastic pollution and climate change is resonating across the world. As a population, we must reflect on how we got to this point and focus on solutions. Economic progress has led to the alarming…

Recycling is not the Only Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis

ApaNa January 15, 2020

It is becoming more apparent that recycling is not enough to reduce plastic waste in our environment. John Vidal questions whether the type of plastic is the problem or the fact that large quantities of waste cannot be processed. He also notes…