The environmental and health sciences have brought important insights into the connection of environmental pressures and ecosystem damages.
As the financial and environmental costs of resource depletion and negative ecological impacts begin to affect economic growth, countries around the world need to find ways to manage finite resources while meeting the needs of a growing and increasingly urban world population.
This publication calls for a shift away from labour- and resource-intensive production towards resource-efficient productivity. Only if changing patterns of consumption are aligned with corresponding transformations in governance systems and companies, can a real green growth transition occur.
Guide dealing with the process of measuring the carbon footprint of products along the value chain, known as Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs), in the agri-food sector - provides an introduction to (PCF); outlines various types of PCF schemes and initiatives; describes steps involved in calculatin
The world is facing deeply interlinked economic, social and environmental crises which result mainly from current unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.
Food exporters are increasingly being asked by retailers to measure and reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their products, and new market requirements have emerged, mainly in the form of standards on ‘product carbon footprinting’ (PCFs).
This research investigates the profitability of biofuels production in Africa, taking Ethiopia as a case in point, and suggests an oil price threshold beyond which biofuel may be profitable.
This report was produced by the Working Group on biofuels of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Managemet. It provides an overview of the key problems and perspectives toward sustainable production and use of biofuels.