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Skechers Sundown Festival
Sundown Festival launches Southeast Asia’s first music climate action pledge in partnership with Bye Bye Plastic Foundation
Singapore, 4 July 2025 - Today, Singapore makes history with the official launch of the Music Climate Action Pledge, the first industry-led sustainability commitment for live music in Southeast Asia, …
Landmark partnership between the City of Lisbon, TOMRA and the Portuguese hospitality association AHRESP aims to cut litter …
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Nations come together to establish new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on chemicals, waste and pollution
Against a challenging geopolitical backdrop and in a major move to protect people and planet, countries today came …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How data is helping cities counter plastic pollution
Officials in Lagos, Nigeria, were facing a dilemma. It was the early 2020s, and the city of 22 …
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12 May 2025
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
How cleaner production bolsters economic resilience in developing countries
5 May 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Answering ten pressing questions about plastic pollution
8 April 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Zero Waste Day shines a light on fashion and textiles
25 March 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Historic canals take centre stage as Kochi, India aims to blunt fallout from climate change
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
As electronic waste surges, countries look for answers
24 February 2025
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
GAIA calls for greater accountability, inclusiveness, transparency in Plastics Treaty Process
4 February 2025
World Economic Forum
25 countries unite in fight against plastic pollution
20 January 2025
13 December 2024
13 November 2024
Diversey, a Solenis Company
Diversey, a Solenis Company and NatureLoop sign MOU to upcycle single-use plastic waste
14 October 2024
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
New fund to support chemicals and waste management in developing economies
7 October 2024
1 September 2024
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Half the world’s countries have degraded freshwater systems, UN finds
6 August 2024
UNDP Malaysia
UNDP launches Malaysia Island Innovation Challenge
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Plastics Industry Development Center
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