Towards Sustainable Pakistan
Government institutions, multinationals, civil society, and even the small-scale businesses in Pakistan are aware to plan and act to play their part in making this world a sustainable place to live.
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Environmental and Social Impacts of Fast Fashion
In our daily life, we see people in different brand shops, looking to be trendier. Regardless of age or gender, the average people look for inexpensive and affordable clothes produced by mass-market retailers like Zara, H&M and Gap, to represent the latest trends taken from the most recent catwalks.
Green Grabbing: “brown practices” in implementing global “green agendas”
Recent studies explore numerous interconnections between implementing the 2030 Agenda, climate change politics, and green grabbing
The EU’s Green Deal is out: The Commission will refocus the EU Semester process of macroeconomic coordination to put sustainability and the well-being of citizens at the center of economic policy and the SDGs at the heart of the EU’s policymaking and action
The EU’s Green Deal is out. It is a new growth strategy that aims decouple economic growth from the use of the resources, transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy with zero net GHG emissions in 2050. The Green Deal is an integral part of the …
Efforts to marry public and private resources through PPPs and blended finance have failed to engage private capital for SDGs, – says the 2019 UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report
UNCTAD in its recent report on Trade and Development have critisized the effectiveness of the innovative financial instruments such as PPPs and blended finance for implementing the 2030 Agenda and achieving the SDGs. According to UNCTAD there is an unambiguous evidence that efforts to marry public and private resources through PPPs and blended finance have …
On the unique challenges, opportunities and risks faced by the commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) in their transition to sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient economies
More than half of the countries in the world are commodity-dependent countries (CDDCs), meaning that at least 60% of their exports derive from commodities, primarily, from agriculture and extractive industries (carbon-intensive natural resources, minerals, ores, and metals (UNCTAD,2019, UN,2019) Commodity dependence, combined with poor governance of natural resources and commodity sectors put at risk the …
Kurdistan: A History of Betrayal
Kurdistan: A History of Betrayal U.S. President Donald Trump’s impulsive and often incoherent policies have caused national and international uproar once again. As the Turkish government prepares a new offensive on Syrian soil, Trump’s decision to redeploy U.S. American forces in northeastern Syria has thus paved the way for Recep Tayyip Erdogan to freely attack …
On the role of a Circular Bioeconomy in the EU’s 2050 decarbonization strategy
In November 2018, the Commission presented the European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050 (COM (2018) 773).It implies a significant decrease in use of the fossil carbon resources (oil and liquid gas production) by about 60 % by 2050. In order to preserve the global competitiveness of the …
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Catalonia: Imprisonment Over Dialogue?
On Monday 14th of October, the Spanish Supreme Court announced its verdict on the two-year trial (juicio del procés) against the main Catalan leaders involved in the 2017 non-binding referendum and the unilateral declaration of independence, both of which were doomed unconstitutional. Although most of them were absolved of the charges of violent rebellion, the …
Advancing SDG 14: Sustainable fish and seafood value chains, trade and climate
ish and seafood are among the most traded food commodities and overexploited natural resources. Aquaculture has been the fastest-growing food production system in the world for the last 5 decades, contributing 50% of the fish consumed globally. Upstream and downstream activities along the fish and seafood value chain provided significant employment and economic benefits to …
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