quinta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2026

«New Landscapes is an international programme and catalyst grant scheme in partnership with University of Arts London's (UAL) Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI)»

 



«2026 New Landscapes Report

The New Landscapes India programme generated significant impact across innovation, skills development, and sector engagement. It also fostered sector-wide engagement through exhibitions, knowledge exchange, and policy dialogue, reinforcing UK-India collaboration, cultural exchange, and providing greater visibility of joint innovation across the sector.

This report provides an overview of the programme’s context, delivery model, and principal achievements. Alongside detailed SME project case studies illustrating the breadth of research and innovation undertaken, whilst collated data highlights the wider economic, social and cultural impact through the scheme».




«But the silent yet significant effects of climate change on the brain are only now starting to be understood»

 



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terça-feira, 4 de agosto de 2026

«State of Sustainable Business 2026»

 


«What This Report Covers

This report examines corporate sustainability today from a practitioner perspective, spanning priorities, investment, measurement, and integration, while tracking shifts over the past decade against 2016 benchmarks».





sábado, 1 de agosto de 2026

SIMON PARKIN | «O Jardim Proibido de Leninegrado - Uma história verídica de ciência e sacrifício numa cidade cercada»

 


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«No verão de 1941, os soldados alemães cercaram a cidade russa de Leninegrado - a atual Sampetersburgo - e deram início ao bloqueio mais longo de que há registo histórico. Numa estimativa por defeito, o cerco iria ceifar as vidas de 750 mil pessoas que, na sua maioria, morreram de inanição.
No centro da cidade sob ataque erguia-se um palácio transformado que albergava o maior acervo de plantas vivas jamais reunido - o primeiro banco de sementes do mundo. Depois de se terem malogrado as tentativas de transferir a coleção para outro local, e à medida que os mantimentos diminuíam, os cientistas responsáveis viram-se confrontados com uma decisão terrível: deveriam distribuir os espécimes pela população faminta, ou preservá-los na esperança de que contivessem a solução para pôr termo à fome mundial?
Recorrendo a fontes inéditas, O Jardim Proibido de Leninegrado conta a história notável e comovente dos botânicos que permaneceram no Instituto das Plantas durante os dias mais sombrios do cerco, arriscando as suas vidas em nome da ciência».Saiba mais.



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terça-feira, 28 de julho de 2026

«The Paris Agreement made clear that climate commitments require public finance, not just policy ambition»

 


«The Paris Agreement made clear that climate commitments require public finance, not just policy ambition. Countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) set targets, but targets don’t implement themselves—they require public choices about spending, taxation, subsidies, investment and risk. The budget is where climate goals are tested against real action.

The OECD’s Beyond Green Tagging, and the IMF’s guidance on climate-sensitive PFM, each point to the same gap: governments’ climate commitments often don’t match the fiscal systems used to plan, allocate, and account for public money. Yet global attention and negotiations tend to focus on how much climate financing is needed, where it will come from and whether countries are receiving enough support. Too little attention is paid to whether commitments are visible in the budget decisions that determine what is funded, what is taxed (or not), what is prioritized, and what is tracked—and whether spending is assessed for climate impact. (...)». +.

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