Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain

Published: 17 January 2024

Guatemala is now the third-largest palm oil producer after Malaysia and Indonesia (which produce 88% of the global supply) and is often seen as a more sustainable alternative. Today, more than 60%...

Palm oil plantations and deforestation in Guatemala: Certifying products as 'sustainable' is no panacea

Published: 27 July 2023

Palm oil, which can be found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, is notorious for causing deforestation and biodiversity loss. Efforts to curtail the damage have largely focused...

TISED Talks presents Tracking Corporate Actors Across Space and Time

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:00

TISED TalksSustainability in Engineering and Design Seminar Series...

Mac alumni win Homegrown Innovation Challenge

Published: 20 October 2022

Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT’19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the...

Caucasian households in U.S. emit most carbon despite greater energy efficiency

Published: 22 November 2021

Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers led by McGill University has used data from 60 million individual...

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