Month: March 2023

Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (Photo by Michael Buholzer courtesy World Economic Forum) By Sunny Lewis DAVOS, Switzerland, January 23, 2018 (Maximpact.com  News) – Climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization pose the greatest threats to the survival of human civilization, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the opening...[Read More]

In Morocco, Inzekri’s collective apiary, one of the world’s largest, was built around 1850 in the heart of the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve, Souss. Destroyed by the floods of 1990, the apiary was rehabilitated in 2005 and taken over by the local beekeepers’ association to revive the site. It is a pilot project of SD VISta. 2018 (Photo courtesy Projet Economie Circulaire Souss Massa) By Sunny Lewis...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis HONG KONG, China, November 6, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Green building is one of the best ways to combat climate change, since globally, “Buildings account for about a third of CO2 emissions, and these will continue to rise under a business-as-usual scenario,” Bruce Kerswill told delegates to the World Green Building Congress 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East late last m...[Read More]

Kariya Mohamed Abbakar, right, a 50 year old woman from Darfur in western Sudan, arrives at her shelter in the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons with jerrycans full of water from the nearest water point. Because of the hard labor and cost of the water, she and her family must limit their consumption of water to 80 litres a week, while a typical person in a developed nation would use ...[Read More]

Vestas wind turbines generate power in The Netherlands, December 2015 (Photo by Siebe Schootstra) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis OAKLAND, California, August 23, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – A 21.82 percent return on investment over the past decade – that’s the proud record of The Carbon Clean 200 – a new list of 200 clean energy companies selected for this inaugural version of t...[Read More]

Some 300 environmental justice activists gathered in front of the White House to protest the Army Corps Of Engineers approval of an easement allowing construction of the last leg of the Dakota Access pipeline, February 8, 2017 (Photo by Stephen Melkisethian) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis SEATTLE, Washington, February 14, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – In a unanimous vote Tuesday,...[Read More]

By Ana LaRue Women’s empowerment looks to be one of the transformative economic trends of our time. There is a business case for gender inclusiveness and how investors can work with a gender lens to achieve their investment goals. A wealth of research shows how investing in women around the world produces powerful results that benefit families, communities and entire societies – and on top of all ...[Read More]

Somali refugee children play around their shelters in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, third largest in the world. 2015 (Photo by B. Bannon courtesy UNHCR) By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, May 21, 2020 (Maximpact.com Community Solutions News) – “If ever we needed reminding that we live in an interconnected world, the novel coronavirus has brought that home,” said UN High Commissioner ...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, May 7, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – This cyclone season in the Indian Ocean Basin has been exceptionally fierce, with 15 storms, including nine intense cyclones, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). At least a million people had to be evacuated from stricken coastal areas in India, while over a thousand died in eastern African countries. Risi...[Read More]

By Guest Contributor Martin Boonham, Warwick Business School (Opinion on Maximpact.com News) Environmental entrepreneurs are being forced to forgo some of their green ideals despite the historic Paris COP21 summit agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found. The 1,000 largest companies alone are responsible for one-fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions according to t...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis MOSCOW, Russia, January 7, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – A fully renewable energy system for Russia and Central Asia by 2030 is achievable and economically viable, finds newly published research by Finnish scientists. Although fossil-fuel rich Russia is now the world’s largest exporter of oil and natural gas, a completely renewable energy system for the region would be half the cost o...[Read More]

Caption: International Energy Agency Executive Director Dr. Fatih Birol (left) shakes hands with Francesco La Camera, International Renewable Energy Agency Director-General, to celebrate the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation towards a more secure, affordable and sustainable world energy regime, April 9, 2019 (Photo courtesy International Energy Agency via Twitter) ...[Read More]