Imvelo Environmental Blog
Imvelo’s Environmental blog aims to create conversations on environmental awareness and topics around sustainability to help businesses and individuals become conscious for the planet.
Our environmental blog, as the name suggests, covers topics ranging from environmental impact, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and climate action to environmental legislation, circular economy, B corps, conscious fashion and everything to create good for people as well as the planet.
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SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals | Brave New World
Welcome, you’ve reached the final of 17 articles looking at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Throughout this series, we’ve tried to give a fair and honest assessment of the state of the goals, how dire their situation is, and what hopes they have for a...
What is ESG: A short guide
Sustainability is an overarching clause that encompasses everything from ecological balance to social-political equality. This week, I want to cover an important aspect of sustainability that is easy to overlook by businesses in their development—adhering ESGs to gain...
SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions | Brave New World
This Brave New World series has all been about gaining a fuller perspective of the past situation, the present pandemic, and how we can avoid reverting into our old ways in order to create a better post-Covid-19 planet. In this penultimate piece, we look specifically...
How can businesses best protect life on land?
Every day, the world is bombarded with news of drought, heatwaves, and climate-induced natural hazards. The global community has never been this concerned about biodiversity, climate change, the well-being of the people, and the health of the planet. Now that...
SDG 15: Life on Land | Brave New World
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...
Do Oceans Have the Potential To Reverse Climate Change?
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...
SDG 14: Life Below Water | Brave New World
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...
Can we keep it below 1.5 degrees celsius? / Climate change can’t be under lockdown
2020 was one of the warmest ever recorded. The extreme weather fueled by the coronavirus crisis was a double blow for millions of people in 2020. While Covid-19 took human society by storm, the threat posed by climate change has not gone away. Human influence...
SDG 13: Climate Action | Brave New World
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...
Can implementing an EMS save the planet?
Decades of industrial boom, quick consumerism trends and careless disposal techniques have changed our climate and environment. Odd rain cycles, increasing frequencies of natural calamities, new diseases and outbreaks are clear indicators of this. However, many...