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Harmonizing Fashion Sense and Sustainability

NEW YORK, New York, September 19, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – September is a month clothed in glamour in Europe and New York, as the runways fill with the latest ideas from the fashion world’s most talented designers. Fashion weeks open and close on a year-round calendar these days with major shows not only in New York, London, Milan and Paris but also in Dubai, Sydney, Lagos, Accra, Los Angeles, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, São Paulo, Shanghai, Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo, among and many other centers.

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Youth Leaders Strategize Ahead of Climate Summit COP28

BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 24, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – At a Climate Justice Camp in Lebanon next week, 450 young leaders from nearly 100 countries in the world’s most climate-stressed regions across the Global South will gather to co-create strategies that will advance an equitable climate action framework at this year’s United Nations climate conference, COP28, and beyond.

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Walking to Live and Loving to Walk

LODZ, Poland, August 12, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Walk more to live longer, a team of European scientists says after conducting a new comprehensive study of how plain, simple walking benefits our health. The number of steps we should walk every day to start seeing these benefits is lower than previously thought, according to the latest, largest analysis ever to investigate this issue. The new analysis of 226,889 people from 17 different studies across the world has shown that the more we walk, the greater the health benefits. 

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Earth Day, Earth Week: Earth Day Every Day

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Earth Day is held each year on April 22 to show support for environmental protection. It started small on April 22, 1970, and now includes hundreds of events coordinated globally by Earthday.org, working with 150,000+ partners in 193 countries to build environmental democracy. The official theme for Earth Day 2023 is Invest In Our Planet. One billion people are expected to participate.

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Meeting on the Green Side Is Easier Than Ever

Meeting on the Green Side Is Easier Than Ever

BONN, Germany, October 23, 2022 – Meetings, gatherings, conferences, summits, festivals, forums, caucuses, councils – large and small, events can be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts. Now a new, free online tool offers user-friendly solutions that can be used to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help reach climate goals.

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15 Cities Each Win a Million in Global Mayors Challenge

NEW YORK, New York, January 19, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the 15 winning cities of the 2021-2022 Global Mayors Challenge, a worldwide innovation competition that supports and spreads the most promising ideas from cities large and small.

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Sustainability: Megacity Mayors Map a ‘Future That Works for Everyone’

The mayors of 97 of the world’s largest cities, members of the C40 global network of cities, have agreed to revitalize the post-pandemic world by creating green jobs, investing in public services, supporting essential workers, greening public spaces, and protecting struggling mass transit systems until the virus recedes and riders return.

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Global Investors for Sustainable Development

Global Investors for Sustainable Development

Thirty influential corporate leaders have agreed to cooperate over the next two years in an effort to free up trillions of dollars from the private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations announced Wednesday.

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UN Gathers Strength for Sustainable Future by 2030

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The first United Nations summit on the progress of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development closed on a hopeful note Thursday, with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed of Nigeria declaring that the two-day event had been a reminder of “the boundless potential of humanity to create a better future for all.”

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Leaders Vow ‘Radical Shift’ to Save Degraded Planet

Things are changing quickly at the UN’s environmental agency. As evidence mounts of the devastating effects of human activity on the health of the planet, a global clamor for even swifter action arose at an important meeting of the world’s environmental leaders earlier this month.

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The World’s Precious Water Supply is in Crisis

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All of us need water. Water maintains our rivers, seas, forests and plant life as well us as human beings, and without water nothing can survive. The problem however, is that like it or not, we find ourselves in the midst of an extreme water crisis that’s impacting the lives of more than 2 billion […]

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Sustainable Development = Happiness

“It is literally the truth, that sustainable development is the path to happiness,” Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, told this year’s meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that opened Monday at UN Headquarters in New York.

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