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From Harmful Ambrosia over Pellets to a Warm Home
The large family home belonging to Rade Vujic from Sitnes near Srpac in Republika Srpska is probably the only building in the entire area that is being heated by combustion of a...
Goran Trivan The Minister of Environmental Protection: We Must Take Care of the Branch We are Sitting on
The term "sustainable development" origins from forestry and in short, it means that a man can cut down as many old trees as he has planted. In an attempt to come up...
Climate Change Could Displace Half a Million Atoll Residents Within Decades
A new study published in Science Advances Wednesday has bad news for the residents of low-lying atolls: If current greenhouse gas emission rates continue, climate change will render most of these islands...
Siemens Gamesa Secures Largest Ever Indian Wind Farm Deal With 300 Megawatt Contract
Siemens Gamesa announced on Thursday that it had received its largest ever wind turbine order in India with the sealing of a 300 megawatt (MW) supply contract to Sembcorp Energy India Limited...
Food and Drink Giants Unite in Promise to Wage War on Plastic Waste
The government may have promised to wipe out avoidable plastic waste in the UK by 2042, but today large swathes of the UK's food and drink sector went a leap further, in...
Over 95% Of World’s Population Live In Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution
More than 95% of the world’s population in 2016 (+7 billion) lived in areas with dangerously high levels of air pollution — that is, in areas where WHO organization guidelines for air...
New York City Will Ban Automobiles From Central Park This Summer
Central Park in New York City is the most visited outdoor space in the United States. 40 million people a year flock to Central Park to partake of its charms. First established...
Report: Carbon Pricing Now Covers Up to a Quarter of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The adoption of carbon pricing policies around the world is accelerating and now covers between 20 and 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE).
However,...
Catholic Institutions Mark Earth Day with Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge
The global divestment movement gained a religious following today with the announcement that 35 Catholic institutions have pledged to remove fossil fuels from their investment holdings.
Humanitarian organisation Caritas Internationalis, three leading Catholic...
Great Britain Goes 55 Hours Without Using Coal
In a Tweet posted on Thursday, the UK’s electricity and gas owner National Grid confirmed that Great Britain had gone over 48 hours without any coal electricity generation, which was further confirmed...
Portugal’s Renewable Electricity Production in March Exceeded Consumption
Portugal is taking an early lead in renewables to such an extent that for the month of March it produced 4.3% more renewable electricity, at 4,812 GWh, than its total electricity consumption...
Climate Change Could Set Off Volcanoes
We can add volcanic eruptions to the list of potential climate change hazards.
In a presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly held from April 8 to 13, University of Clermont Auvergne...
New Zealand Bans New Offshore Oil and Gas exploration
New Zealand has announced a halt on any new oil and gas exploration in the country, in a surprise move hailed as "historic" development by environmental campaigners.
Although there are 31 oil and...
Angela Merkel Wants Federal Government To Help Prevent Diesel Car Bans Or Restrictions
The federal government of Germany is looking to avoid the diesel car bans and usage restrictions in the country — on every level of government, whether regional or city level — German...
Carbon Tax Would Help U.S. Meet Paris Goals, Study Finds
If the U.S. does decide to stay in the Paris agreement, a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has confirmed a policy...
Norway’s Government & Shipowners Association Want Global Shipping Emissions To Be Halved By 2050
The government of Norway and the country’s shipowners’ association have revealed their preference for global shipping related greenhouse gas emissions goals to target a figure of 50% by 2050, the two entities...
