After a sharp decline in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020, Minnesota’s emissions rose in 2021 and 2022, according to ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

In the Philippines, traditional knowledge touches on almost all facets of the economic and social development of a community from agriculture to literature and from customary law to arts and crafts.

This paper is on compliance and dispute settlement provisions in the WTO and MEAs. It is also provided as an input to the MEA Information Sessions.

From The Boston Herald via The World Business Council for Sustainabile Development Companies shouldn't feel obligated to "give back" to the community, because they haven't taken anything away, the ...

More than 100 million ha of forest lands were managed according to FSC requirements in March 2008. The FSC standards for responsible forest management are widely regarded as the most rigorous social ...

Mandatory corporate climate-related disclosure is gaining momentum. In this article, we investigate the effect of global ...

The secretariat indicated in its informal note containing the draft classification list (24 May 1991) that it would prepare a revised version based on comments from participants. The attached list ...

Information comparing these two certification programs.

In Japan it is called "teikei," meaning "putting the farmers' face on food." Here, the moniker is Community Supported Agriculture, and Jeanne Byrne is the farmer whose boxes of fruits and vegetables ...

CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago, about 300 miles from the company's headquarters ...

WASHINGTON - The World Bank believes a controversial hydroelectric dam project in Uganda is economically viable and it supports that government's efforts to protect the environment, the bank said in a ...