The pandemic caused many businesses and organizations to suffer and even shut down permanently. Small businesses were affected in many ways, but there was also a rise seen in many places, who adapted to the COVID norms. Many countries like the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia.
A new report called ‘Code Red for a healthy future’ published by the Lancet states that India is one of the top five countries with the highest rate of heat wave exposure over the past five years.
The UK government has announced a new app that will reward users for having a healthy diet & a physically active lifestyle. Underlying the importance of physical health, the interesting initiative aims to promote a healthy lifestyle.
The images of Delhi’s Yamuna river filled with floating toxic foam are surfacing all over the internet and raising some serious concerns. These images are enough to shake the environmentalists not only in Delhi but around the world.
Black carbon is the leftover junk from burning plants or fossil fuels. Researchers estimate that soot, or black carbon pollution in the most popular and accessible part of Antarctica is causing an extra inch of snowpack shrinkage every year. Soot in Antarctica comes primarily from the exhaust of cruise ships, vehicles, airplanes and electrical generators, although some pollution travels on the wind from all parts of the globe.
A think tank linked to Japanese technology giant Canon is coming under pressure to remove multiple articles from a research director who describes the climate crisis as “fake news” and compares campaigner Greta Thunberg to a communist.
The European Union has increased its target of reduction in carbon emissions from 40% to 55% from 1990 standards at the end of last year. Achieving this will require a change in policymaking and restructuring of high emission entities.EU started by taxing its high carbon emitting members to reduce the emissions.
Germany is under great diplomatic pressure from the members of the EU, the US and other NATO countries to reduce its Russian oil consumption after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Germany’s energy demands were met mostly by Russian oil and coal supply, it has one of the largest shares of Russian energy imports of all EU countries, and it is the largest European economy.
In the year 2015, world leaders signed the Paris Climate agreement, promising collaborative effort from all nations to curb carbon emissions. Four years later, in 2019; global carbon dioxide emissions hit an all time high–of more than 35 giga tonnes.
DAC or Direct Carbon Capture technology is making lots of headlines these days, especially after the latest IPCC report talked about the need of carbon sequestration. A new study on the process of carbon capture however shows that it is way too costly to be feasible.
Scientists who wrote the IPCC report are saying that the report has been misinterpreted by popular media. It was widely reported that the global emissions will peak by the year 2025, and then it’ll start to fall.
Japan relies mostly on fossil fuels for its domestic consumption after the Hiroshima crisis, but things are changing now as a long running test project is bearing fruit.
New Zealand, in an effort to curb its methane emissions will become the first country to be taxing cattle farmers for methane emissions.
The Bonn climate conference has ended, without settling the demands of developing countries over climate change.
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Putting a price on carbon is seen to be an effective measure against reckless burning of fossil fuel. Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to adopt a carbon pricing mechanism to address climate change.
With the whole world locked down inside their homes for the past two years, video streaming services have seen a boom in their growth like never before. More people are engaged with their phones to watch video content not only for entertainment purposes but also because they have to attend meetings and watch lectures. A whole industry has evolved behind this habit of binging video content that keeps out pumping episodes and movies every week. Does this rapid growth in the streaming industry and the resultant surge caused in the energy consumption match with the growth in the sustainable energy sources? Is the whole system of ever awake data storage centers and networks, high speed cellular connectivity and the ability to reliably stream literally anything anytime, energy intense enough to move the needle on carbon emissions?
As the changing climate is gripping the world, countries and institutions are rushing to help people adapt to it and mitigate the damages done because of it. Like any other disaster, it has also brought to the world’s attention the inequalities among countries in various ways, some are better placed for a renewable energy transition while others are still developing their economy with fossil fuels, some are protected against rising sea levels and others are losing land every year.
A new study published in the Royal Society Journal on 24th November has revealed that one of the most loyal animals, Albatrosses are breaking up because of the changing climate. Researchers mentioned that the increasing temperature level of the oceans is causing the partners to divorce even after accounting for the lack of fish.
Germany has announced that it will provide Euro 1.2 billion (INR 10,025 crore) to support India to combat the climate crisis and to boost the cooperation between the two nations on clean energy.
UK's renewable energy giant, GE’s renewable announced on Tuesday about its plan to manufacture zero waste wind turbine blades. By the year 2030, this will make it the latest operator to develop more sustainable production processes in the sector. The initiative is called ZEBRA, or Zero Waste Blade Research project, which aims to design and manufacture completely recyclable wind turbine blades.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.