Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan will become country carbon neutral by 2050, Bloomberg reported. As the world’s third-largest economy, this will require a “fundamental shift” away from coal, The Washington Post reported. Suga replaced former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month, after he resigned due to health issues. This was Suga’s first […]
By Ajit Niranjan Leaders from across the world have promised to turn environmental degradation around and put nature on the path to recovery within a decade. “We are in a state of planetary emergency,” the 65 leaders, who include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, wrote ahead of a UN biodiversity […]
The world’s largest online retailer is making it slightly easier for customer to make eco-conscious choices. Amazon announced Wednesday that approximately 25,000 products will receive a “Climate Pledge Friendly” designation to guide customers toward products that are helping the retail giant meet its commitment to be carbon neutral in 20 years, as Reuters reported. Amazon […]
By Harry Kretchmer By 2030, almost a third of all the energy consumed in the European Union must come from renewable sources, according to binding targets agreed in 2018. Sweden is helping lead the way. As well as targeting 100% renewable electricity production by 2040, the country is transforming homes into highly efficient ‘prosumers’ – […]
Project goal: To create an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to leather, in this case using fungi. Project partner: Indonesian startup Mycotech is supported through universities, research institutions and the DBS Foundation. In 2019/2020, the company also received from funding from the SEED Initiative (Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development) and the German Environment Ministry’s […]
By Andrea Willige More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and most future population growth is predicted to happen in urban areas. But the concentration of large numbers of people and the ecosystems built around their lives has also been a driver of climate change. Cities are responsible for 70% of global […]
In 2010, representatives of 196 countries met in Japan and agreed to 20 targets to protect Earth’s imperiled biodiversity by 2020. That year has come, and not a single target has been met, according to a major UN assessment released Tuesday, as CNN reported. “Many good things are happening around the world and these should […]
Lego said on Tuesday that it plans to stop using plastic bags inside of box sets and replace them with paper ones. The Danish company said it would start making the switch next year and aimed to completely phase out plastic bags by 2025. It said children liked the paper alternative “as they were environmentally […]
Tech behemoths Google and Facebook have upped their respective pledges to the environment, joining the ranks of Apple and Microsoft. Earlier this year, Microsoft pledged to go carbon negative by 2030, meaning it will account for all the carbon it has ever produced and add enough mitigation to counteract its effect. Now Google is following […]
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