Financiers can and must make the shift to circularity, ensuring the businesses they invest in make more efficient use of resources and minimise waste, pollution and carbon emissions, says the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative.
As Olympic athletes encounter untreated sewage dumped into Rio de Janeiro’s watercourses, a new report from the Christian charity Tearfund and the Institute of Development Studies, finds that the mountains of waste that pollute our environment and cause disease could instead be used to reduce poverty and save lives.
