G7 throws weight behind sustainable finance movement
Grouping backs UN Environment research on how to engage financial centres and SMEs The G7 today joined the G20, other countries and markets in throwing…
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Why is Robotics important?
Robotics technology influences every aspect of work and home. Robotics has the potential to positively transform lives and work practices, raise efficiency and safety levels…
Rethink ‘carbon’ to make CO2 work for climate change solutions
An old cliché declares that the challenges we face often present the greatest opportunities. Yet in the case of addressing climate change, we have historically…
Williamsburg
The Domino Sugar Refinery was the first refinery of the American Sugar Refining Company. It processed more than half of the sugar sold in the…
Urbanisation can be good for the environment
Urbanisation has never resonated stronger among countries – developed and developing alike – than now. While the recently documented New Urban Agenda (Habitat III) posits…
What rural Alaska can teach the world about renewable energy
I flew into Unalakleet, Alaska, on a late fall day. With about 700 people, Unalakleet is large by rural Alaska standards and serves as a…
Argentina’s Never-ending Environmental Disaster
Is it possible to spend 5.2 billion dollars to clean up a river which is just 64-km-long and get practically no results? Argentina is showing…
Vertical green
Have you ever thought of building a green roof or a vertical garden for your house? After this article, you will start thinking about it,…
Hemp: so useful, yet so misunderstood
Do you sock it to the planet with your socks? It is estimated that in the United States four billion pairs of socks are purchased…
Very little remains
Three days before leaving the White House President Barack Obama sent $500 million to the Green Climate Fund. Then came Donald Trump, and that could…
Will business fill the Paris void?
Exit from climate agreement seen as step backward for U.S. competitiveness In addition to opposition from environmentalists, governors, and mayors, many prominent business leaders reacted…
World can reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2060 to meet Paris climate goals
Global emissions can be pushed down to “net zero” by 2060 to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, says the International Energy Agency…
Are you a big foot?
You do not have to be a mythological creature to produce a huge carbon footprint. Carbon footprints are determined by how much of the greenhouse…