Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck full of clothes is dumped into a landfill or incinerated. In Europe, between 4% and 9% of all unsold textiles, specifically items that have never been worn, are destroyed annually. This produces carbon emissions roughly equivalent to the total net output of
When delegates from nearly every nation gathered in Geneva earlier this month, the meeting on the agenda was procedural but carried heavy symbolic weight: electing a new chair to lead negotiations on what could become the world’s first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. In a one-day resumed session of
Announced this week, Canada scrapped its 2026 electric vehicle sales mandate, abandoning one of its most visible climate policies at a moment when global climate ambition is colliding head-on with trade, geopolitics, and economic realism. The decision drops the requirement that 20 percent of new vehicles sold in Canada be
A Deal Decades in the Making For nearly two decades, trade negotiators from Europe and India circled one another, meeting, pausing, restarting, and retreating again. On January 27, that long courtship ended. The European Union and India reached a sweeping free trade agreement that leaders on both sides now describe
President Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules of global trade for more than a year, using tariffs not as a last resort but as a first response. What makes his latest threat toward Canada different is not the tactic. It is the target and the scale. A proposed 100
DAVOS/ST. PAUL — As the global freshwater supply gap widens, Ecolab Inc. and CDP have unveiled a new financial and operational tool designed to move the private sector from passive data disclosure to active resource management. Announced yesterday at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF26) in Davos, the Water
As power shifts in Caracas and Washington, the country’s forests, rivers and communities are being pulled into the center of a high-stakes reckoning. CARACAS — Venezuela’s environment has long lived in the shadow of oil. Now it stands directly in its path. The country is one of the most biodiverse
The global transition to a net-zero economy is facing a critical human capital bottleneck, with demand for green talent significantly outstripping the available workforce supply. According to the LinkedIn Green Skills Report 2025, released this month, the share of green hiring grew twice as fast as the share of the
The world’s digital backbone is expanding at a pace unmatched in modern history. More than a trillion semiconductors now enter the global market each year, feeding 11,000+ data centres and the accelerating adoption of AI. Yet beneath this surge lies a structural vulnerability: the technology sector’s dependence on land, water,
The charts froze just before dawn in Asia. Wheat futures stopped mid-tick. Crude oil quotes stalled. Currency pairs flickered and vanished. Around the world, trading screens went dark as CME Group — the clearinghouse that underpins the daily functioning of global commodity and financial markets — abruptly went offline. For
