It's official! Breakdancing will be an official Olympic sport at the Paris 2024 Games. But what does this mean for the future of the sport, the community around it, and the global impact it's creating? 

Delegates from almost 200 countries have reached a historic agreement on the UN Treaty of the High Seas to protect 30 percent of the ocean by 2030.

In light of the United Nations' first ever International Day of Zero Waste, we're higlighting a social enterprise initiative tackling plastic pollution in Africa. This is part of the podcast series: Entrepreneurial Journeys. 

The World Water Day 2023 was marked in 2022 with the three-day UN 2023 Water Conference co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan. Together delegates discussed some of the most pressing issues of our time ─ too much, too little and too dirty water. The conference promised to be a watershed moment and ended with over 700 commitments to advance the water agenda. In the meantime, and not even after a year, the number of actions on the UN-Water Action Agenda, has risen to 832.

Spring has arrived. And what better time than now to admire the flowers adorning the Dutch landscape. Our flower-growing region also flourishes with daffodils, hyacinths, lilies…and the national symbol: the tulips.

We spoke with Ynse Hendrik Deinema, the CEO of Roboat, which is a Dutch company working on self-driving technology to transform urban waterways.

We spoke with Marjan van Aubel a Dutch designer and researcher specialising in creating sustainable products and materials that integrate solar energy into daily life.