In 2024 we authored (or co-authored) and distributed 12 major articles on behalf of clients in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Evanston, Bonn, Geneva, and Brussels
The efforts generated over 12,400 online news articles in at least 46 languages across 108 countries and territories, resulting in roughly 45 billion potential public impressions, according to the Meltwater news search engine. Countless other impressions were generated via print newspapers and magazines, radio, television and social media
With thanks to the researchers and collaborators behind these stories, and to the hundreds of journalists who covered them, the following releases were the most widely noted last year.
17 December, 2024
Tackle together five interlinked global crises in biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change
The most ambitious scientific assessment ever undertaken of the complex interconnections between the biodiversity, water, food, health and climate crises, offering scores of response options to maximize co-benefits across the "nexus."
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Planet in Peril: IPBES Report Reveals Options to Achieve Urgently Needed Transformative Change to Halt Biodiversity Collapse
Prepared over three years by more than 100 leading experts from 42 countries from all regions of the world, the report explains what transformative change is, how it occurs, and how to accelerate it for a just and sustainable world.
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~1,450+ online news articles, 36 languages, 101 countries, 5.5 billion potential impressions
9 December , 2024
Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN
Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in recent decades, UN scientists warned today
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1,150 online news articles, 31 languages, 83 countries, 5.1 billion potential impressions
12 February, 2024
Landmark UN report reveals shocking state of wildlife: the world’s migratory species of animals are in decline, and the global extinction risk is increasing
First-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report offers a comprehensive assessment of migratory species: a global overview of their conservation status and population trends, combined with latest information on their main threats and successful actions to save them.
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2,966 articles in 46 languages across 108 countries; 8.1 billion potential public impressions
4 June, 2024
US pre-teens discover rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex; Science expedition chronicled in extraordinary documentary
Three keen-eyed young fossil hunters made the discovery of a lifetime when they found the remains of a rare teenage Tyrannosaurus rex that could rewrite history
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1,763 online news articles, 33 languages, 80 countries, 6.3 billion potential impressions
21 May, 2024
‘Silent demise’ of vast rangelands threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions: UN
Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to overuse, misuse, climate change and biodiversity loss poses a severe threat to humanity’s food supply and the wellbeing or survival of billions of people, the UN warns
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620 articles in 21 languages, across 58 countries, resulting in a combined 1.9 billion potential impressions via online news sites
10 October, 2024
E-waste experts urge public: Stop trashing electronic products with ordinary garbage (International E-Waste Day)
To mark International E-Waste Day, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and/or unused electronics and electrical products and give them a second life through reuse or repair, or recycle them properly. Above all: stop tossing them out in household waste bins.
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1,218 online news articles, 38 languages, 68 countries, 2.6 billion potential impressions
20 March 2024
Electronic waste rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling: UN
The world’s generation of electronic waste is rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, the UN’s fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) reveals. The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks, roughly enough trucks to form a bumper-to-bumper line encircling the equator; Up 82% since 2010 and on track to rise further 32% in 2030; $billions worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered; Just 1% of rare element demand met by recycling
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2,203 online news articles, 41 languages, 94 countries, 7 billion potential impressions
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909 articles, 21 languages, 50 countries, potential impressions: 2.4 billion
16 October 2024
8% GDP loss by 2050 foreseen due to world water crisis; more than 50% of food production at risk
In a landmark report, the Global Commission on the Economics of Water says the water crisis threatens a loss of GDP of up to 15% in lower-income countries, and even larger economic consequences beyond.
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1,002 articles, 76 countries, 31 languages, 4.8 billion potential impressions
1 December, 2024
Planetary boundaries: Confronting the global crisis of land degradation; Potsdam institute report opens UNCCD COP 16
A major new scientific report charts an urgent course correction for how the world grows food and uses land in order to avoid irretrievably compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing.
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April 26, 2024
COVID, wildfires, heat waves underline need for better air quality norms in schools, child care
The COVID-19 pandemic, smoke from raging wildfires, and extreme heat waves have intensified concerns among child health and environmental law experts about inadequate air quality in schools and child care settings.
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6 articles in Canada, potential impressions 6.6 million
2 November, 2024
Biodiversity COP 16: Important Agreements Reached Towards Making Peace with Nature
The 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on an expanded role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in saving biodiversity and a groundbreaking agreement on operations of a new global mechanism to share benefits from digital genetic information.
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Terry Collins is a Toronto journalist specialized in global publicity of science-related research and events. The consultancy was established in 1996 after nine years of news reporting (Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa) and 10 years of public service (Ottawa; UN, New York). Associates in the United States, United Kingdom and Africa
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