Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance that celebrates water and inspires action to tackle the global water crisis.

Join Mark Victory, Senior Editor, Recycling at ICIS as he asks Valentijn De Neve, CEO of BlueAlp and president of industry association Chemical Recycling Europe, and Egor Dementev, ICIS EMEA recycling analytics team lead about mass balance accounting and the future of the chemical recycling industry following the publishing of the Single Use Plastic Directive implementing act.
The EU’s biomethane market has been developing at speed. Since 2023, production has risen more than 30% and the fuel is fast becoming not just an instrument to reach energy transition targets but is also making a real contribution to security of supply.
In this episode of the "World We Want" podcast, Márcia Balisciano interviews Maria Angela Capello, President, Red Tree Consulting LLC. Maria Capello shares powerful insights on responsible energy development, embedding sustainability into strategy, advancing women in STEM and why human-centred leadership is critical to the energy transition.
The authors proposed an integrated system combining intensive pig farming, rice cultivation, and biochar production leading to zero emissions goal. They also minimized the waste recovery cost, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and reused nutrients from pig farming waste.

Karuppannan Iswarya, Ulaganathan Arisekar, Rajendran Shalini, Balasubramanian Sivaraman, Shanmugam Sundhar, Balamanikandan Vijayakumar, Antony J. Prabhu Philips,
Chapter 1 - Overview of aquatic food industry waste: challenges, opportunities, and sustainable valorization,
Editor(s): Piyush Kashyap, Tanmay Sarkar, Sajid Maqsood,
Aquatic Waste Valorization,
Academic Press,
2026,
Pages 3-27,
ISBN 9780443440274,
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-44027-4.00013-5.

This chapter aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) because it addresses the environmental impacts of aquatic food industry waste and explores sustainable strategies to reduce pollution and protect water resources.

A man working on a laptop that is placed on a brown wooden desk.  On the screen is the COP 30 special issue title.

In this round up of 2025, we share the Special Collections published throughout the year to mark key UN observation days and events.

Image of a structure with th hashtag symbol and COP30 outside a building illuminated at night

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Belém, Brazil, bringing together governments and stakeholders for the UN’s annual climate negotiations. This article, provided by LexisNexis UK Practical Guidance, offers a day-by-day overview of the key insights, decisions and developments from the Summit.

Energy security is closely related to national security, particularly in the realm of energy production and consumption as well as energy transformation capacity (e.g., refinement and storage capabilities). Similarly, environmental and climate and health security have been identified as key drivers of national security and associated national resilience indicators. We explore these dynamics with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region and present potential methods of reconciling competing priorities to ensure regional stability and security.

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