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World Bank Doubles Climate Investment to $200bn
The World Bank Group has doubled its current five-year investment to around $200 billion (£157bn) to support countries taking action to fight climate change. It is part of its plans to boost support for climate adaptation, especially in the world’s poorest nations, with…
What Are the Biggest Challenges for Saving the Oceans?
Oceans stretch across 70 percent of our planet, and the vast majority of the world beneath them is unmapped and unexplored. Their depths may still hold many secrets, but we know they face serious risks from overfishingand pollution. The biggest threat of…
Man Is Healthy Only if He Takes Care of His Health
Milka Drezgic, Professor of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, the Belgrade University The advancement of preventive medicine, diagnostics, and therapies, as well as technological breakthroughs in the 20th century, contribute to a better understanding of health and disease on…
The Step Towards the Energy Efficiency: The First Typology of Schools in Serbia
The “National School Typology” study has recently been presented on the most suitable approaches to the renovation of school buildings and the improvement of energy efficiency, which will be the basis for making further strategic decisions regarding the restoration of school…
Eva Kail: Vienna Acts Against the Climate Change
Eva Kail, The Gender Planning Expert for the Executive Group for Construction and Technology, the City of Vienna A survey conducted by Mercer, an international consulting firm, has shown that there’s no place in the world where the life is…
ABB solar inverters on the roofs of “Ikea” company
In the endeavour to assist in meeting of the increasing energy demands worldwide, with the minimal negative environmental effects, ABB Company has created extra values for their customers with flexible and innovative solar energy technologies. Integration of the renewable energy…
The Impact of Architecture on the Environment
In 1987, the World Commission on the Environment and Development defined sustainability as a process of meeting the present needs without compromising future generations and their needs. This definition can be expounded into three main aspects on which sustainability rests…