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International Day of Action for Rivers 4 March 2021
The International Day of Action for Rivers is a day dedicated to solidarity – when diverse communities around the world come together with one voice to say that rivers matter.- agriculture
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International Polar Bear Day 2021
By helping protect the polar bear, we’re helping to make sure the Arctic food chain stays healthy, for the benefit of wildlife and people in and beyond the Arctic. The Arctic provides fish for millions of people.- animal welfare
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End plastic pollution: You can help!
Plastic pollution is the ocean's new cancer, but the good news is that we can all help clean up the planet!- animals
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FAO declared 2021 the International Year of Fruit and Vegetables.
The aim is to raise public awareness of the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, promote healthy diet and lifestyle, reduce food waste and food losses, improving food production by making it more sustainable through innovation and technology in line with UN development objectives.
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- silicone food bag
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Life depends on drinking water
Drinking water is a resource that must never be taken for granted because life depends on it. It is essential for the well-being and sustainable development of people, and for preserving biodiversity in the world.- agriculture
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How can we restore the primordial link between environment and people?
Urban development has compromised that primordial link that united the environment and people. How is it possible to restore it?
By a conscious and responsible lifestyle. Every daily gesture directly affects our well-being and our surroundings.
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Whales can help us fight climate change
The attempt to increase the number of whales could be seen as a benign form of geo-engineering. A large whale absorbs on average 33 tonnes of CO2, while a tree, for example, stores less than 50 kg annually.- animal welfare
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Plastic in the Arctic comes largely from polyester clothes
Analyses indicate that homes and water treatment stations release microfibres that end up polluting the Arctic. There’s plastic all over our lives.- Arctic Ocean
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Hazardous chemicals found in single use plastic food containers
It is urgent to reduce the use of disposable options and rely on circular and safe materials. Given the ability of many of these chemicals (many of which are hazardous) to migrate from packaging and other materials to food, their continued use should be understood as a risk to human health.- awareness
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- beeswax
- beeswax food wrap
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- ecocide
- emergency
- environment
- ethical consumerism
- european green deal
- food
- food storage
- garbage
- green deal
- health
- landfill
- litter
- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
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Say No to plastic wraps, ditch plastics!
There are many things to do against single-use plastic pollution, but the most important measure is reduction. The first step is to get rid of the delusion that any plastic consumed will simply disappear. Even when you throw it away, it doesn’t degrade. Not in our lifetime.- awareness
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- clean water
- climate change
- CO2
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- emergency
- emissions
- environment
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- food storage
- garbage
- garbage patch
- green deal
- health
- landfill
- litter
- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
- no plastic
- organic
- organic cotton
- plant trees
- plastic
- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the forests
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
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- reusable cotton mesh
- reuse
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Exotic paradise of plastics
In recent days, monsoon rains and winds blowing from west to east have brought huge amounts of marine plastic waste to Indonesia's main beaches.- animal welfare
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- litter
- marine life
- marine protected area
- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
- no plastic
- ocean
- organic
- plastic
- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
- renewables
- reusable
- reuse
- rubbish
- save water
- seas
- single use plastic ban
- single use plastics
- sustainability
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The UN Sustainable Development Agenda
Today, progress is being made in many places, but, overall, action to meet the Goals is not yet advancing at the speed or scale required. 2020 needs to usher in a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Goals by 2030.- agriculture
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- food
- forests
- fossil fuels
- garbage
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- indigenous people
- international
- investment
- marine life
- marine protected area
- nature
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- no plastic
- ocean
- organic agriculture
- pandemic
- peace
- plant trees
- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the forests
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
- renewables
- reusable
- reuse
- rubbish
- save food
- save water
- seas
- single use plastic ban
- sustainability
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