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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,…
EIB Group Financing Reached EUR 1.1bn in Romania in 2016
The European Investment Bank (EIB) provided new loans worth EUR 1.04bn and the European Investment Fund (EIF – which together with EIB forms the EIB Group) executed operations in Romania totalling EUR 61m in 2016. The EU bank financed priority…
NASA Saves Energy, Water with Modular Supercomputer
The supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, is using an innovative modular approach that is designed to get researchers the answers that they need, while reducing the high level of energy and water traditionally required for…
Las Vegas Now Runs Completely on Renewable Energy
From street lights to city parks, community centers and fire stations, all Las Vegas city-run spots are now powered entirely by renewable energy, making it the largest in the U.S. to use such sources. “We are now one of the…
Major Global Groundwater Resources Could Be Depleted by 2050s
In the decades to come, a new study indicates that humans might seriously deplete groundwater resources throughout much of the world, including parts of India, southern Europe, and the US. And when that happens, nearly 1.8 billion people will go…
Switzerland Sponsors Energy Data Centre at VIC as Part of “Greening the UN” Initiative
On the eve of the recent UNIDO 50th anniversary week, the Vienna International Centre (VIC) inaugurated a state-of-the-art energy data centre donated by Switzerland. The data centre replaced the World Clock, also a Swiss gift, which the VIC received when…