Forget that fancy word ‘smart city’. A country or community must have uninterrupted electricity 24 hours a day, clean water, knowledge of agricultural pattern to grow crops through the year and no wastage of water. Securing these few resources (water and energy in the form of food and electricity) are essential for sustainable living
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Luiza Cristina Fernandes Palma is the chairperson to the Portugal chapter of All Ladies League, the organization which hosts Women Economic Forum
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The need of the hour is gender equality. The women of Iceland are a testament to the progressive and hard working society that has come together to minimise the gender gap
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At the Women Economic Forum 2017, where women from different spheres came to discuss issues of women empowerment and gender parity, sustainable development was a key issue, given the large role played by gender dynamics in sustainability
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There has been a substantial increase in the number of entities certified by the Global Organic Textile Standard, where there were about 3,814 entities in 2015, as compared to 4,642 last year, thus an increase of 21 per cent
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An associate of ALL Ladies League, the Women Economic Forum (WEF) is a global conference to foster empowering conversations and connections among women committed to adopt constructive change in all walks of life.
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In an interview, Richard Northcote speaks about company’s innovations as well as other sustainability initiatives
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Beijing took off 180,000 old and polluting vehicles from its roads in the first four months of 2017, the Chinese capital’s environmental bureau has said, as part of its efforts to tackle congestion and cut smog
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On 23 April, NITI Aayog, India’s apex planning agency, released its Three Year Action Agenda from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Charting “an ambitious, transformational yet achievable action agenda for the government between 2017-18 and 2019-20”, the report is divided into seven parts
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Hemp and sustainability go hand in hand to a large extent, and a company in Mumbai called Bombay Hemp Company is trying to achieve Herer’s vision of a sustainable, hemp-laden future
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