Switzerland on Friday announced adjusted proposals to meet the country’s target to halve greenhouse gas emissions by reducing CO2 emissions by 2030. This comes after voters rejected the government’s first attempt to do so in the narrow result of the referendum last year. Swiss citizens thought the realization of the plan of cutting CO2 emissions …
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Yvon Chouinard gave all the stock in his outdoor fashion company Patagonia to a trust and a nonprofit organization yesterday aiming to continue his climate change fight. Chouinard announced the ownership transfer in an open letter on Patagonia’s website. He transferred the ownership to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective, an organization dedicated to fighting environmental crises …
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Tech giant Samsung is investing $5 billion in environmental initiatives and programs to eliminate a large amount of emissions from its factories and operations and eliminate its direct environmental pollution by mid-century. The world’s largest maker of home appliances, gadgets, smartphones, and memory chips from South Korea plans to eliminate carbon emissions as the negative …
African ministers of finance, economy and environment, meeting in Cairo two months before the COP27 climate summit, have called for a dramatic increase in climate finance in opposition to a sharp phase-out of fossil fuels. Oil and gas producer Egypt, considered highly vulnerable to climate change, is positioning itself as a champion of Africa’s interests …
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Vienna-based oil giant OMV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lufthansa Group in order to deliver more than 800,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2023 to 2030, OMV says in a press release. The businesses want to broaden their current relationship to incorporate new SAF production technologies, new SAF delivery …
European governments are burning wood and destroying forests in the name of clean energy, The New York Times reported. In the north of Romania, the roads are littered with felled trees – once they were part of one of the largest and most valuable European massifs. At the factories, the logs are ground into pellets, …
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Researchers found that due to climate change, a shortage of renewable energy sources, such as biofuels, wood, and waste, may begin in the upcoming period due to reduced yields because of droughts, fires and heat, Nature reports. Scientists from the UK, Spain, and China have shown that rising temperatures can reduce crop yields due to …
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Summer heatwaves across the country tested whether America’s ageing electrical grid could keep up with demand, a problem scientists say will be exacerbated by climate change as major hurricanes, wildfires and other weather events increase in frequency, disrupting power generation and transmission. Meeting the growing power needs of US consumers requires the increased generation and …
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A study of the current state of resource savings achieved by optimizing and processing environments for sustainable production was carried out by an international team of scientists, the press service of South Ural State University (SUSU) reported. The team of researchers, which included scientists from the UK, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, as …
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After decades of political squabbling and denial from the fossil fuel industry, the US is very set to make its first substantial move to address the climate catastrophe. According to experts, the new climate bill will contribute to rewiring the US economy and be a crucial step in preventing catastrophic global warming, The Guardian reports. …
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