An annual start-up competition has brought together 175 young entrepreneurs from 35 countries to offer innovative solutions for pressing sustainable development challenges facing Asia-Pacific’s cities around healthy and inclusive ageing, skills development, and green consumption and production.
Category Archives: 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
‘Friends for life’: how living with locals helped refugees feel at home in a new country
Resettlement creates challenging situations for both the refugees seeking a new life, and for the communities in which they are placed. While many in these communities will feel sympathy towards refugees, others are afraid of what foreign migrants moving into their towns and villages might mean for their local socioeconomic environment.
Fishing for plastic
“We want to empower every fisherman to catch plastic and then bring it back to the port and upcycle it. That would create a huge global impact,”Arapakis said, “I think there is a lot of awareness from our generation about plastic pollution and other environmental challenges. Awareness that I don’t think has existed on such a wide scale for decades.”
Bringing recycling to Kuwait
“I live in one of the richest countries in the world, yet we don’t have many sustainable solutions in the field of recycling,” says Alzelzela.
“We can now start analyzing the data we have generated, to find out which areas generate more waste, and why.”
The US and China face a common enemy: climate catastrophe
By Taylor Dimsdale
Fast fashion: A passing trend?
By Sophie Bauer
