Biodiversity leaders at UNDP recommend framework for monitoring ecosystem integrity
Improving ecosystem integrity is essential to ensuring human and planetary wellbeing. Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are working to adopt a consistent and accurate method to define and measure ecosystem integrity. In the new paper recently published…
What Skills do Youth Need for Green Jobs of the Future?
In the next decade, millions of new “green” jobs will be created in new-wave industries, like solar energy, and established fields, like architecture, fashion and farming. For young people, these jobs will represent an opportunity to earn a steady living…
Better Energy Efficiency Policy With Digital Tools
The digitalisation of energy systems is transforming energy efficiency, introducing technologies and creating new sources of detailed data which are supporting new business models and revenue streams. As the market and technology landscape transform, policy makers are also increasingly taking…
Young People Hold the Key to Creating a Better Future
Young people today are coming to age in a world beset by crises. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated lives and livelihoods around the world, the socio-economic systems of the past had put the liveability of the planet at risk…
Kia Niro EV & Ford Mustang Mach-E Shine In Netherlands In July
The Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market continues in the fast lane, with 6.703 plugin registrations logged last month. That meant that last month’s PEV share of the overall passenger auto market was 25 percent (16 percent BEV), pulling the year-to-date PEV…
The Myth That EVs Aren’t Cost Competitive Is Highly Misleading, & Harmful
The New York Times has published an article stating that EVs aren’t for everyone unless they get cheaper, but the outlet seems to be missing the story. They are already much cheaper than they were five years ago, and they keep…
EBRD, EU and Austria finance energy efficiency in Serbia’s homes
Households in Serbia are set to benefit from the further expansion of the Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) with a new EUR 5 million loan in local currency provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to ProCredit…