Persuading individuals to engage in pro-environmental behavior is challenging.
A grand challenge facing humanity is how to produce food for a growing population in the face of a changing climate and environmental degradation.
In 2017, Chioma Blaise Chikere was awarded the second prize of the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge. Her project “Eco-restoration of crude oil-polluted land in Nigeria” demonstrated how organic nutrients such as garden fertilizers and animal excreta can be used to degrade hydrocarbons, cleaning up the soils heavily contaminated by decades of oil spills and advancing SDGs 6, 13 and 15. Three years later, we caught up with Dr. Chikere to learn about her research journey.
Various studies have shown that maritime sector needs increased use of zero emission vessels in service by 2030 in order to achieve an absolute reduction in CO2 emissions of 50% by 2050 (consistent wi
With the increasing importance of ‘emerging powers’ in the global economy, questions are raised about the role of developing countries in shaping global norms.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.1.1 proposes to quantify “Forest area as a proportion of total land area” in order to achieve SDG target 15.1.
Approximately 1 billion people currently live in informal settlements, primarily in urban areas in low- and middle-income countries.
Infant formulas (IFs) can be defined as substitutes for human milk, which are mostly based on cow milk proteins.
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Advancing SDGs 7 and 13, this article outlines why divesting from fossil fuels makes sense environmentally and financially.
This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 13 by highlighting the green and sustainable alternatives that have been used so far in the open literature for the production of waterborne polymeric dispersions.
