Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Environment Programme
Influence of light at night on allergic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis - BMC Medicine
This study was designed and conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines [36]. The protocol for this review, which includes further rationale and methodological details, was previously published on July 12, 2022 [37]. Since our review considers only published and publicly accessible information, it did not require formal ethics approval.
Europe has banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Action is needed in Africa too
First marketed in the late 1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides have become the world’s most widely used group of insecticides. They offer lower toxicity to mammals than the insecticides they replaced. But their systemic nature means that all parts of the plant become toxic to insect pests. Even just a coating around seeds offers weeks of protection to a growing crop. This is great for farmers. But the characteristics that make them so effective have also wreaked enormous collateral damage.
Incubating Urban Movements
Environment Programme / Partner story Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash “The optimism of the action is greater than the pessimism of the thought”. Those are the words that finally convinced me to become an activist. It is a quote from an old Greenpeace poster my parents gave me as a fourteen-year old. That poster is now framed and hangs on the wall in the ‘guest’ toilet in our apartment. It is the only place my wife will let me hang it. I share this with you because this is an update about action.
Air pollution in Asia
Environment Programme / Blog Photo by hbieser from Pixabay Climate change poses a massive risk to our right to live healthy lives. Air pollution, driven largely by greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, vehicles, construction and industry takes more lives than any other known environmental threat. Oak believes it is imperative to take urgent action to reduce air pollution. Our work on air quality started with addressing the air pollution crisis in eastern China.
The Blue Economy: Changing Colours
Our planet is blue, but green is the colour we usually associate with nature. In the ongoing effort to save and protect our natural world, you may not have heard the term ‘green economy’, despite it not being a new concept. It refers to ways to improve human wellbeing, while using the planet’s natural resources within safe and sustainable ecological limits. However, colours are changing, and blue has become the new trendy colour.
Green bonds - the building blocks of cleaner, smarter, healthier finance
Environment Programme / Blog Photo: © Oak Foundation Green bonds are one of the best financial instruments for building a cleaner, safer and healthier future. Green bonds are bonds specifically earmarked to be used for climate and environmental projects and can be issued by governments, banks, cities or businesses. More specifically, green bonds finance projects aimed at energy efficiency, pollution prevention and clean transportation.
The power of communications and media for the environment
Different forms of communications, whether strategic in nature or building the capacity of Oak’s partners to tell compelling stories about their work, are integral to bringing about lasting social and environmental change. In the context of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF), director Heather McGray is experimenting with several different forms of communications to focus on solutions to coping with the devastating impacts of climate change.
China’s war against air pollution
China’s earlier Air Pollution Action Plan (the Plan), released in September 2013, may have been one the most influential environmental policies of the past years. This plan has helped guide China to make significant improvements to air quality, by cutting PM2.5 (hazardous fine particles measuring 2.5 microns or smaller) concentrations to less than 60 micrograms per cubic meter as targets for key regions.
Growing climate philanthropy
Globally, climate philanthropy has been punching way above its weight for a while now. Taking bigger risks, expanding geographic frontiers and taking on some of the hardest battles of our times in fighting powerful lobbies and entrenched views. However, in the larger schemes of things, climate philanthropy is less than two per cent of overall philanthropic giving.
Under the microscope: protecting large oceans
Over the last 15 years, Oak has made significant investments in Marine Protected Areas (see recent assessment). As a team committed to learning from these investments, Oak supported a multi-year research study to better understand the political, social and economic dynamics at play in the creation of large scale marine protected areas (MPAs).
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Environment
Contact Environment, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack