The Imvelo Blog

Let’s start with a big and bold fact that will rightly shock you about life on land. Since the year 2000, the world has lost over 100 million hectares of forest (net). The UK is about 13 million hectares in size, so imagine that a forest 7.5 times the size of the UK...

A quick search about climate change, marine conservation or oceanic ecosystems is enough to tell us that the underwater environment is depleting much quicker than we had anticipated. Global warming has led to tremendous damage of the marine ecosystem and biodiversity...

Around the world, there is a phenomenon known as a ‘dead zone’. This is an area of the ocean that lacks the sufficient oxygen required to support marine life. In 2008 there were 400 of these, and in 2021, there are roughly double that. In effect, we are killing our...

In a way, all of the sustainable development goals interact with SDG 13 in some way or another, and in our opinion, it’s probably the most important of them all. If we can’t solve the climate issue and stop the global temperature increasing, we are going to see rising...

The world is changed forever due to Covid-19, we simply can’t avoid it. But, whether that long-term change is good or bad is down to the actions of the many and the policies of the few. In the new world, we can hope to see people shopping locally instead of importing,...

It is clear that Covid-19 has possessed major setbacks for the SDGs. The pandemic has reflected the gap in urban research and the need for researchers to take these uncertainties as a guide to chart more sustainable future communities and cities. As I write this, the...

SDG 10 aims for global socio-economic equality determined through prosperity regardless of gender, race, religion or economic status. Considering the giant difference in countries with respect to their position on the Maslow chart, Covid-19 has accelerated the...