Month: December 2022

By Sarah-Jane George With the Winter Holidays close at hand, thoughts of gift buying are at the forefront of most people’s minds. This month instead of focusing on the financial side of making an impact, we decided to look at how sustainability can be incorporated into your giving. Here is our list of gifting ideas and green tips on how to make your holiday shopping experience a more sustainable o...[Read More]

This Syrian refugee girl lives in one of 5,000 tents among 31,500 refugees at Arsal on the Lebanese-Syrian border. March 25, 2019 (Photo by Fundacja PCPM) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, March 24, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – The UN Refugee Agency has airlifted 4.4 tonnes of urgently-needed medical supplies to Tehran to support the COVID-19 resp...[Read More]

PARIS, France, December 10, 2015 (ENS) – Finance remains the most contentious issue as climate negotiators from around the world approach agreement on an historic pact to control climate change that will apply to all nations. Underlying the tension is “differentiation” between developed and developing countries. Who will be responsible for paying? Will the pool of contributors expand? Who will be ...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Global leaders from across the private sector, local government and civil society are in San Francisco this week to showcase progress, unveil new climate commitments and to launch new platforms to work in partnership across sectors to accelerate implementation of the Paris Climate Accord. California Governor Jerry ...[Read More]

The drought in Somalia has lasted for years. This image of two men carrying a water can on a dusty road was shot on December 14, 2013. (Photo by the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, July 4, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Rukiyo Ahmed, 26, discovered she was pregnant just as drought began to parch her village in the Eas...[Read More]

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri has developed the country’s first National Water Plan to protect Argentine clean water sources like this stream in Mendoza Province in the western central part of the country. (Photo courtesy Mendoza Government Press) By Sunny Lewis STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 29, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Cool, clear, delicious water – there’s no substitute for the one substan...[Read More]

Ultra-thin layers of rust on bridge supports in salt water can generate electricity, scientists at two American universities have discovered. (Photo by Morteza Akhnia/Unsplash courtesy Caltech) By Sunny Lewis PASEDENA, California, August 29, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – There are many ways to generate renewable power – solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal installations and hydroelectric dams. An...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis, Train-the-Trainer is a proven method of sharing knowledge that’s efficient and effective. Experts guide would-be trainers to achieve the skills that they themselves have already mastered – how to train others to share knowledge. These are communications skills like active listening, accurate observing and helping participants to link the training they receive to their own jobs. The...[Read More]

COP23 leaders, from left: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa of Brazil; President Emmanuel Macron, France; Frank Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji and COP 23 president; Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany; and UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening of the High-Level Segment of the conference, November 15, 2017 (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Posted for media us...[Read More]

Creative reuse of Used PCBs, Agbogbloshie , February 28, 2014 (Photo by Fairphone) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis TOKYO, Japan, January 26, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – The volume of discarded electronics in East Asia and Southeast Asia rose nearly two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast both in total volume and per person measures, new United Na...[Read More]

Refugee women take a computer course in the SADA Women-only Center in Gaziantep, Turkey. September 16, 2017 (Photo courtesy UN Women) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, July 2, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – “We urgently need more countries to come forward and resettle more refugees,” pleaded Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on Monday. With 8...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom The IPCC report on “impacts, adaptation and vulnerability” caused a stir when it came out in March. The picture it paints of the current realities and possible future effects of climate change is not pretty. In its careful language, there’s “high confidence” that the earth is already suffering the effects of climate change and that, if we don’t take steps to avoi...[Read More]