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Why recycling your phone costs more than you think – and isn’t likely getting cheaper soon
Recycling your old phone should be getting cheaper. After all, electronic waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, having almost doubled in the last decade, and recycling technologies have advanced rapidly. With this kind of scale, many industries, from solar panels to batteries, have seen sharp cost declines.
Precious Zikhali to spotlight climate equity at EfD’s Annual Meeting
EfD welcomes Precious Zikhali, Senior Economist in the Poverty Global Department of the World Bank, as a keynote speaker at its Annual Meeting in October 2025. Zikhali brings a powerful voice to the…
It’s time to correct the map
For over 450 years, we have used a world map that shows a significant distortion of the sizes and relationships between continents. The so-called Mercator map from the 16th century makes Africa look…
Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies: Living with Water, Food, and Life
We are pleased to share with you the Call for Papers for the Sixteenth International Conference on Food Studies, to be hosted by the University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan, 10-12 October 2026. Program 2026…
New PhD program in Global Environmental Policy at Stanford University’s new Doerr School of Sustainability
The new PhD program in Global Environmental Policy at Stanford University’s new Doerr School of Sustainability will soon be accepting applications.
10 years of collaboration was celebrated with forward-looking new research agenda
Researchers from all around the world gathered in the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, for the 10th Annual Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) Workshop to share ideas and discuss…
What are the drivers of poverty reduction and economic growth in Ethiopia?
A recent study highlights the complex relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia from 2001 to 2020. It shows, among others, a great GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth in…