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World Water Day: One in Four Children will Live with Water Scarcity by 2040
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned. Within two decades, 600 million children will be in regions enduring…
US Hotel Giants Launch Flurry of Food Waste Trials
Some of the world’s most iconic hotels are to trial new approaches to tackling food waste, as part of a major new initiative launched today by WWF, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA). Hilton, Hyatt,…
Pakistan To Finally Embrace Solar Power Auctions
Perhaps motivated by the massive crash in the solar power tariff bids across the world, Pakistan is set to shift from feed-in tariff mechanism to competitive auctions in the solar power sector. Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) is…
Greenpeace Praises Dubai Over Solar Energy Park Milestone
Campaign group Greenpeace has praised Dubai on the completion of the second phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Julien Jreissati, Arab World campaigner at Greenpeace Mediterranean, said the solar energy park helped bring about the realisation…
Scientists Sound the Alarm: CO2 Levels Race Past Point of No Return
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that carbon dioxide levels in 2016 broke records for the second year in a row with an increase of 3 parts per million (ppm). The measurements are coming from the Mauna Loa…
Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power
Germany is embarking on an innovative project to turn a hard coal mine into a giant battery that can store surplus solar and wind energy and release it when supplies are lean. The Prosper-Haniel coal mine in the German state…
These People Found Solutions to Global Housing Problems
The world’s leading housing awards have chosen two housing projects that have the answers to issues affecting people across the globe. These world beating solutions have won the World Habitat Awards 2016-17 run by the Building and Social Housing Foundation…