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This July, the UNESCO Chair on Societal Climate Change Research and Resilience (University of Hamburg) participated in Plastic Free July from Skyros Island, Greece, in collaboration with the Skyros Project, the University of West Attica, and the volunteer NGO Why Not.

Reducing plastic use is not...

It’s not always easy to go plastic-free—especially on an island where recycling systems are limited and most take-away food comes in Styrofoam.

But there is one delicious exception…
Drinking fresh, local coconut water—almost entirely plastic-free!

In Tobago, Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter reminds us that...