Brazil – This week Brazil’s government announced that it will no longer be hosting the UN global summit on climate change next year citing costs. The conference could cost Brazil up to $100 million. Brazil spent $4.6 billion on the 2015 Olympic games and it is expected that $33
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Menstrual cups – why you should care about periods even when you don’t have one.
Last year the UK exported two-thirds of its plastic waste to China. In 2018 it banned imports. What will happen?
Monday sees the beginning of the COP 24 conference in Katowice, Poland. Previous conferences include 2015’s COP 21, in which 190 nations committed to limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In other news, Felix sees the beginning of a new column on
China has postponed previous plans to lift the 25-year-old ban on the sale and use of rhinoceros horn and tiger bone for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), following an international furore. This announcement comes two weeks after the State Council’s decision in October to reverse the 1993 ban on the
When Marc Jacobs said that clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them, he probably wasn’t thinking of all the clothes that end up in the Great Pacific garbage patch or the carbon emissions the industry is responsible for. Eloise Hunt talks about the need for sustainability and discusses
Discussing the Imperial College's carbon footprint!