Greenpeace: Carbon offsets are a scam
Carbon offsetting is a licence to keep polluting, and distracts us all from the real work of cutting emissions. It is where companies and governments try to meet their carbon reduction targets while still emitting carbon. Here’s how it works:…
Solar Power Plant With a Little Help of Ceefor
More than 500 companies from Serbia and the region have made an unerring choice by entrusting the experts of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development (CEEFOR) with a task to design their solar power plants whose total capacity, at the moment, amounts to…
Energy Community Secretariat Contributes to Climate Policy Discussions at COP26
The Energy Community Secretariat, an Observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), participated at the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. Director Kopač took part in a high-level side-event on the…
Nature Investment Accelerator Invites Corporates to Slash 1Gt Emissions Annually
– Leading companies launch a campaign to increase private sector investment in natural climate solutions (NCS) to the tune of 1 Gigatonne (Gt) of emission reductions per year by 2025 – Under current prices, the estimated investments are over USD…
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience Receive EUR 10 million boost
At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Federal Environment Ministry of Germany (BMU) announced it will provide an additional EUR 10m to the Global EbA Fund, a pioneering funding mechanism implemented by the International Union for Conservation of…
Climate Action in Agribusiness Could Reduce Emissions by up to 7 percent
Targeted action in agriculture could have a massive impact on climate change, according to a joint brief by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…
Youth Take Centre Stage at COP26
Young climate leaders came together with negotiators, officials and ministers from across the world at COP26 on 5 November, demanding that their voices be heard and translated into the action needed to prevent catastrophic climate change in our lifetimes. Events…