Movements

Treaties, laws, campaigns. What happened when the world decided to change something, measured on what it set out to change.

Counters

Positive-trend counters across the site, tagged for this category.

Clothing
137,232

Tonnes of organic cotton produced

Globally, this year

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Food & Agriculture
75percent

Share of aluminium drink cans recycled worldwide

Globally, 2023

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Articles

Do plastic bag bans work?

How charges and bans cut bag use and bag litter, where they leak into thicker bags, and why plastic keeps growing.

Why the Montreal Protocol worked

How a 1987 treaty phased out 99% of the chemicals destroying the ozone layer, and what it still hasn't fixed.