Posts Tagged: sustainable development

Indonesia has the second largest natural tropical forests on the planet and these have endured continual threats from illegal logging and unsustainable practices for decades.  WWF and many other local and international groups are working to turn these problems around to ensure ‘High Conservation Value Forests’ are left standing. It would be great to think [...]

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

Money is an amazing thing. Although a human created concept, it has become an elemental force of its own – it moves people, companies, markets, and nations. Money is a great mirror of society and, how we relate to it, is reflection of our worldviews, values and beliefs. For many, many people, money is power, [...]

There is a big political push at the moment for “growth”. Rejuvenated after watching the Olympics and sitting on beaches, politicians have returned to Westminster at the start of September determined to do something about the UK’s stubbornly stagnant GDP figures, the statistic which is used to measure the rate of economic growth. If we [...]

With its medal-winning hand-held camera work, Oana and I have created this whistle-stop, sustainability-spotting guide to a few of the green features at the London 2012 Olympic park and village. If you have your own images and videos of anything that impressed you – or disappointed you – at the ‘greenest Games ever’, do tell [...]

Over the last 20 years oil palm has emerged as a wonder crop – providing copious quantities of palm oil as an ingredient in everything from soap to biscuits. But at what cost to the environment? I’ve come to Gabon, in western Central Africa, to see what’s happening here. Palm oil production has already cleared [...]

For those of you lucky enough to have tickets for the Games, or just planning to be glued to your telly for the next few weeks, we thought we’d point out some of the green highlights to look out for in-between the sporting endeavours. Your guide today is David Stubbs, who’s led the London Organising [...]

Will we get a traffic light label any time soon to inform us on how nutritious and environmentally-friendly the food is on the high street? Yes, as soon as pigs fly, and when these flying pigs are gorging on forest-protecting animal feed. A panel earlier this week didn’t quite get to flying pigs, but we [...]

So will London 2012 move us closer to a greener, more sustainable Olympics – an event that respects the ecological limits of our one and only planet? Will it hit the sustainability standards we helped set for it? See what we think and then have your say. The scorecard report that WWF and Bioregional have [...]

I participated in a Guardian Sustainable Business webinar last week to discuss how far companies’ responsibilities stretch in managing the impacts of the products they manufacture and sell on to consumers. My fellow panellists (representing business, academia, and myself from WWF) agreed business has to support managing the footprints of products well beyond the point where [...]