How a COVID-19 recovery could lead to a more resilient Africa
Posted on: May 20, 2020
There is no getting around it: the COVID-19 crisis will hit Africa’s people particularly hard. Even if the infection rate remains low, the socioeconomic devastation is already being felt. Access to clean water supply and basic health...
How COVID-19 can steer city leadership on sustainability
Posted on: May 14, 2020
Cities are at the heart of the pandemic impact and response, and city leaders managing through the COVID-19 crisis have demonstrated commitment to integration, innovation, and partnership. GEF Cities Lead Aloke Barnwal makes the case that this...
How can we create a more prosperous economy and protect the planet?
Posted on: April 27, 2020
After the COVID-19 pandemic we can do better than simply return to business as usual
It’s a cruel and twisted enemy that claims not only people’s lives and livelihoods but makes us each a danger to our loved ones. Attacking societies at their core,...
Why I have high hopes for nature this Earth Day
Posted on: April 22, 2020
COVID-19 has made the case for taking better care of the home we share
Like many others, I began 2020 with high hopes.
This was meant to be a year that would yield desperately-needed accords about biodiversity, oceans, and climate change, propelled...
Why small-scale miners need our attention this Earth Day
Posted on: April 22, 2020
On this day in 1970, millions of people in the United States turned out for rallies across the country calling for environmental protections against oil spills, air pollution, toxic dumps, pesticides, and other hazards to the environment. That day...
How we can all come back better - and greener - after COVID-19
Posted on: April 21, 2020
Pairing action on the pandemic and on climate change will ensure that economies end up stronger than before
Fifty years ago today, protecting the environment became a mass movement when 20 million Americans took to the streets in hundreds of cities...
This Earth Day, reflecting on the global commons we share
Posted on: April 20, 2020
Earth Day 2020 comes at a pivotal moment for our planet. This is the first time since the global celebration was launched 50 years ago where Earth Day events are only digital. COVID-19 has affected the whole world, driving home how connected we are...
Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on artisanal and small-scale gold mining
Posted on: April 6, 2020
COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) is having profound impacts throughout the world. What's happening to ASGM miners, their communities, and planetGOLD country project teams?
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges throughout the world,...
Industrial energy efficiency: the invisible climate solution
Posted on: March 24, 2020
The burning of fossil fuels for energy is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions. So, any effort to mitigate climate change must involve energy efficient strategies. After all, the easiest and cheapest clean energy solution...
High stakes at high altitudes: glaciers and the case for integrated climate and water action
Posted on: March 20, 2020
Being from Denmark - a small, cold, and wet Nordic country that is barely above sea-level - I was sensitized early to the connections between climate conditions and water, from the power of coastal storms to the importance of flood controls. What I...
