In Lebanon, restaurants green their businesses to reduce waste

UN Environment | Sep 29, 2022 at 2:00 AM

“Generating profit might be easy, but it is hard to reach a point where you are proud of your work,” says Aline Kamakian, 53, owner of Mayrig Restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon. Over the past nine years, Kamakian has been working on reducing the environmental footprint of her business, and today she is transforming Mayrig into […]

Credible science to deepen climate action

UN Environment | Sep 27, 2022 at 2:00 AM

The importance of acting on climate change and the wider triple planetary crisis – which also includes the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and the crisis of pollution and waste – has never been clearer.