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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,…
Green Campaigners Welcome Coca-Cola U-Turn On Bottle and can Recycling Scheme
Coca-Cola has announced it supports testing a deposit return service for drinks cans and bottles, in a major coup for environment and anti-waste campaigners. Executives told an event in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening they agreed with campaigners who were pressing…
Director-General of UNESCO Receives WWF’s Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, last month presented the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) 2016 Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award, for her contribution to conservation. The ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace…
Biodiversity Convention and WWF Champion Biodiversity Awareness
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity (SCBD) and WWF International have signed an MoU to collaborate in implementing CBD’s Global Communications Strategy together with CBD Parties, partners and the broader conservation community to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 1 (ABT1)…
Wind Farms Saved 36 Million Tonnes of Carbon Emissions over Six Years, Study Shows
Wind power has played a major role in cutting UK carbon emissions, preventing the creation of almost 36 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel sources over the six years up to 2014, a new analysis has found.…
Britain’s Last Coal Power Plants to Close by 2025
The last coal power station in Britain will be forced to close in 2025, the government has said as it laid out the detail of its plan to phase-out the polluting fossil fuel. Ministers promised last year that the UK…
Scotland Generates Enough Wind Energy to Power Almost Every Household for an Entire Month
Wind turbines in Scotland provided enough electricity to supply the average needs of almost all Scotland’s homes last month, according to a report. Data from WeatherEnergy showed turbines generated 792,717MWh of electricity to the National Grid in October, up more…