Funder

Government of Sweden, Ministry of Environment

The Ministry of the Environment is responsible for the Government’s environmental and climate policy. The Ministry works on issues concerning the climate, biological diversity, chemicals, ecocycles, nature and forest conservation, marine and water environments, radiation safety and international environmental cooperation.

Contributions

The Legacies of the Stockholm Conference

Fifty years after Stockholm, we face a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution.

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June 1, 2022

Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World

Successful disaster risk reduction requires both top-down, institutional changes and strategies and bottom-up, local, community-based approaches.

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May 23, 2022

The Roots of Forest Loss and Forest Governance

If lessons from past failures on deforestation are learned, forest protection could play a major role in reversing both climate change and biodiversity loss.

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May 9, 2022

Pathways to Sustainable Cities

Urban planning needs to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of local communities and build on participatory approaches that foster the engagement of marginalized actors.

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April 28, 2022

Indigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for All

International environmental negotiations need to go beyond tokenistic participation of Indigenous Peoples to a genuine integration of their worldviews and knowledge.

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April 22, 2022

A Warming Arctic is a Warning for the World

To protect the Arctic, stronger and broader local, national, and international measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must be implemented.

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April 11, 2022

The Water and Sanitation Challenge

For universal access to water to become a reality, governments and private-sector service providers should adopt a human rights-based approach to ensure water and sanitation services are safe, available, accessible, affordable, and culturally acceptable.

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March 22, 2022

Protecting Endangered Species

Despite continued conservation efforts, the status of many endangered species remains unchanged.

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March 3, 2022