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What is the state of the Earth’s environment?

Our research associate Nora Mzavanadze is part of the authors’ team for the 6th Global Enviroment Oulook (GEO-6) report – a global state of the environment report led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She is back from the authors’ meeting at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and in this blog post she describes the raison d’être of such a report, explains the GEO process, summarizes the conclusions of the GEO-5 report and discusses the the novelties of the GEO-6 report.

environment, environmental assessment, environmental governance, environmental performance, GEO, GEO-6, global environment outlook, global environmental assessment, global environmental problems, science-policy interface, state of the environment, sustainability, sustainability transition, UNEP, united nations, united nations environment programme

Quality of whose life? Prosperity by another name?

In his third post on this blog, Joe Ravetz, Co-director of CURE, gives a critical overview of prosperity indexes. He formulates and develops the idea of synergistic prosperity.

complexity, sustainability, synergistic, urban

EVALUATE project issues its first policy brief

The EVALUATE project has published a policy brief directed at decision-makers across Europe. The brief focuses on energy prices and general poverty trends in the European Union. It is being issued to coincide with the commencement of EU Sustainable Energy Week and the ManagEnergy Annual Conference, where our team is represented Stefan Bouzarovski at a plenary panel discussion.

Energy, Energy poverty, EU energy week, fuel poverty, housing, sustainability

EVALUATE team member participates at the RESPONDER conference

By Sergio Tiraro Herrero Last week I was in Barcelona for the 2nd ‘multinational knowledge brokerage’ event of the RESPONDER project … More

housing, refurbishment, retrofit, sustainability
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