Measuring Environmental Damage: Economic Valuation by INTRA

Spotting environmental changes around a mining area is often not difficult. Visible changes like degraded mangroves, shifting habitats, declining catches, and fewer days communities can fish can be observed directly. The difficulty arises when those changes need to be expressed in numbers. What exactly should be measured? What is the benchmark? How do you determine […]

The SDGs in 2026: Progress, Gaps, and the Road to 2030

Eleven years after being adopted by all 193 UN member states, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, have reached a critical crossroads. With only four years remaining until the 2030 deadline, the latest data indicate that most targets are unlikely to be achieved on time. The SDGs are a global […]